: Pucker Gallery will present an exhibition, "Zevi Blum: Artistic
Equilibrium and Mark Davis: Boldy Balanced" from October 18 to
November 11 with an opening reception on October 18, 3 to 6 pm.
The public is invited to attend and both artists will be present.
Mark Davis is a Boston area artist who creates colorful hanging
and standing mobiles, subtly inspired by the language of Calder,
the shapes of Miro and the colors of Matisse. Initially a
successful jewelry designer, Davis found that sculpture allowed
him to create more freely from his intuition, embracing energy
and motion more fully.
Davis's most recent sculptures combine boldness and balance with
insight. They exude sensual movement reminiscent of the human
form, as well as forms inspired by the natural world. These
mobiles combine playful form and color with movement and space in
a variety of media, including sterling silver, gold plate, brass,
colored lacquer and wood.
Zevi Blum was born in Paris and was a professor of fine arts at
Cornell University for 25 years. Though he was originally
educated as an architect, Blum has created etchings and hand
water colored etchings for most of his artistic career.
His compositions are filled with allusions to religion, mythology
and fairytales and present a delightful panoply of characters.
These figures seem to belong to no age, yet also to every age, as
they are fanciful anachronisms that speak to universal themes. An
element that pervades Blum's work is that of human inventiveness
gone awry.
The gallery, 171 Newbury Street, is open Monday-Saturday, 10
am to 5:30 pm, Sunday, 1 to 5 pm. For information,
617-267-9473.
