David Voth

Education and activities

Biography

Davoth: A pretense of aesthetics and theory.

One foul and blustery night in Chicago’s September, two loving, but unfortunate souls begat a redfaced boychild. That ill behaved twister of brown shag became Davoth, the art monger whose work now assaults your very eyes. The wide-eyed journey from multidirectional boychild to multidirectional manboy that began that ominous night is still under way today in the forests, peaks, pubs, and alleyways of Colorado.

Recent years have brought Davoth from painted wood and metal dimensional forms to mixed media wall art partially in response to his Adult Attention Deficit Disorder, thus the desire for quick drying acrylic paint, which can be layered in rapid succession, even when copiously scraped on with a nimble pallet knife.

(Editor’s note: At this point in the Statement, the author switches from third-person self indulgence to first-hand masturbation of his Art Theories. Everyone knows that artists are endlessly egocentric and write these abundantly flattering statements about themselves as if they were written by some obsessed Historic Art Scholar. I apologize on his behalf.)

Often I find myself being queried as to the origination of the themes evoked in my visual art. Frequently drug use is overtly charged. I do not proclaim myself Nancy Reagan nor Timothy Leary, but my sketches come from a place of twitchy boredom and mild psychosis, not mind altering medications. The difference between the Creative Mind and the Lunatic Mind or Drug Infused Mind is delineated by the level of control and is likely diminutive in my case.

Experimentation with primitive and innate Art Sensibilities is also central in my work. The mindless child’s scrawling of mustaches and filling in of O’s and P’s, the painted power struggle between the rogue graffiti artist and their artless corporate counterpart, the narrative cave murals of ancient humans; these sorts of things all seem to be universal to the human occurrence and warrant exploitation.

Davoth is extraordinarily talented and charismatic and has shown and, I dare say, shined in many group and solo exhibitions around Denver and Colorado Springs, won some awards, and his work resides in several corporate, scholastic, and personal collections. Outstanding!

Exhibitions

Davoth: Aesthetics in action.

Thunderstruck, Colorado Springs, Co: “Tools as Art” (Group Exhibition), August 1998, Merit Award

Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Co: “Student Show”, April/May 2003

Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Co: “Student Show”, April/May 2004

Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Palmer Lake, Co: (Group Exhibition) June/July 2004

Core New Art Space, Denver, Co: “Wide Open Whatever” (Group Exhibition), June 2004, Sculpture-Best in Show

Smokebrush Gallery, Colorado Springs, Co: “Heads Show” (Group Exhibition), March 2005

Art Wars II, Colorado Springs, Co: (Group Exhibition) April 2005

Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Co: “Student Show”, April/May 2005

Shugas, Colorado Springs, Co: November 2005

Plantera, Colorado Springs, Co: (Three Featured Artists) August-October 2005

Art Wars III, Colorado Springs, Co: (Group exhibition) April 2006

Shugas, Colorado Springs, Co: September 2006

Plantera, Colorado Springs, Co: (Three Featured Artists) September-January 2006

Phantom Canyon, Colorado Springs, Co: January-February 2007

Rubbish Gallery, Colorado Springs, Co: February 2007

Shugas, Colorado Springs, Co: October 2007

The Warehouse, Colorado Springs, Co: “New Year’s Celebration Show” (Group Exhibition), January 2008

Rubbish Gallery, Colorado Springs, Co: (Group Salon) March 2008

The Grill Next Door, Colorado Springs, Co: (Solo Exhibition) April-? 2008

Kitchens’ Ink, Denver, Co: (Solo Exhibition) May 2008

COPPeR, Colorado Springs, Co: May 2008

Rubbish Gallery, Colorado Springs, Co: (Solo Exhibiton) September 2008!

My favourites

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