“I always wonder what he is feeling when I look at Alonzo’s work – the textured layers of rich color, the bits of gold –maybe an embedded African coin. Sometimes suspended in space…or finely rooted as are the Power Poles, his work inspires and challenges me to re-examine my boundaries and to try something new.”
~Adriene Cruz, artist
Career Highlights (2000-2017)
| EXHIBITIONS | |
|---|---|
| 2017 | ArtistsandMakers Studios, Rockville, Maryland Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia McLean Center for the Arts, McLean, Virginia |
| 2016 | Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, Maryland Prizm Arts Fair, Miami, Florida |
| 2015 | Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland, California |
| 2014-15 | U.S. Embassy, The Republic of Sierra Leone. West Africa |
| 2012 | PS1/MOMA, Queens, New York Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 2011 | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California |
| 2009 | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
| 2007-08 | Sculpture Garden, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC |
| 2006 | Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Delaplaine Visual Art & Education Center, Frederick, Maryland Contemporary Crafts Museum, Portland, Oregon Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California |
| 2005 | African American Artists of Los Angeles, California African American Museum Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, California Philadelphia International Airport, Pennsylvania |
| PUBLIC ART | |
| 2012 | “Estrellas,” Epic Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida “Left Hand Swing,” Laurel-Beltsville Senior Center, Laurel, Maryland |
| 2011 | “Chattanooga Crossroads,” Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| 2006 | “Come This Way,” U.S. Embassy, Lome, Togo, West Africa “Judicial Balance,” Marbury Wing, Prince Georges’ County Courthouse, Upper Marlboro, Maryland |
| 2001 | “Double Take,” Memphis Public Library, terrazzo floor collaboration; Tennessee |
| INSTALLATIONS | |
| 2014 | “From There to Here”, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2006 | “Gateway,” Maryland Zoo, Baltimore “Bamboo Expressions,” East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii |
| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES | |
| 2016 | Lifetime Achievement Award, James A. Porter Colloquium, Howard University, Washington, D.C |
| 2008 | Tong Xian Residency, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming The Julia and David White Artist’s Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica |
| 2003 | I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut |
| 2002-03 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia |
| CATALOGS/ARTICLES/PLATES | |
| 2015 | “Personal Patterns,” Claudia Rousseau curator, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, Maryland (catalog) |
| 2012 | “Alonzo Davis,” Rima Schulkind, Washington Sculptors, pp6-7, No. 1 Winter |
| 2011 | “Now Dig This,” Kellie Jones, plates pp: Prestel Publishing, New York |
| 2010 | The Bamboo Muse by Alonzo Davis (coffee table art book) Lyn Kienholz, L.A. Rising, SoCal Artists Before 1980, California. International Arts Foundation 2010 |