Anna Davidson
Self Portrait in Isolation
Photographs mounted on aluminium and ivory soap
ABOUT THE WORK
This is a piece I created while sheltering in place due to COVID-19. It includes photos of my fingerprint, x-ray of my mouth in addition to three small sculptures made from soap: COVID-19 molecule, a dust mask, and a petri dish. This piece served as a starting point for a larger Exquisite Corpse project I have been curating as a way to stay active in the art world and with other creatives during this time in isolation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anna Davidson is a visual artist and scientist. Concerned with our changing environment, her work fuses art, climate and biology. Starting expeditionary in nature, her work manifests in sculpture, video, sound, performance and bioart. She completed her MFA in Visual Arts (2016) following the completion of her PhD in plant ecophysiology (2014), both from the University of California, Davis. She currently splits her time making art, teaching art and conducting scientific research at UC Davis studying tree physiological responses to climate change. Currently, she teaches art at Sierra Nevada University and California State University, Sacramento. She has also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and UC Davis. Davidson has numerous scientific and artistic publications, exhibited internationally and attended several residencies including the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, Norway, Djerassi in Woodside, California, Tropical Lab in Singapore and most recently an Artist at Sea residency on Woods Hole’s Atlantis oceanographic research vessel to the Lost City hydrothermal vent system. She is the founder of the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous at UC Davis, in affiliation with Leonardo, the International Society of Art, Science and Technology.