Jack Davidson
Jack Davidson spent a week at Manneken Press in 2016 producing a color woodcut edition and a series of monotypes. For these works, he adapted a process central to his painting practice: beginning with collages made from torn, painted paper, he photographed the assembled forms and then reconstructed the compositions on the printing plate—carefully replicating details such as the torn edges of the original fragments. He further enriched the prints with Rorschach-like color blots created using flexible plates, adding an element of chance and mirroring. Several of the monotypes incorporate metallic silver inks or applications of metal leaf, amplifying their luminosity and material presence.
After graduating from Gray’s School of Art in 1981, Davidson moved to London, later spending fifteen years in New York City before settling in Barcelona, where he has lived since 2001. He has exhibited widely across the United States and Europe, and in 2016 he was awarded a Yaddo Artists’ Residency fellowship. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the New York Public Library’s Drawings and Prints Collection, the Reader’s Digest Collection, and the Col·lecció Olor Visual in Barcelona.