Chet Davis - Artist
Chet Davis has been an artist, art educator, and art advocate in Central Pennsylvania for over fifty years. He earned a BS in Art Education from Penn State University and a MA from the Hartford Art School.
Chet has had over thirty solo exhibitions and has been in numerous curated invitationals and national juried shows. He has taught art at all levels, elementary through university, in public and private institutions.
Artist Statement
I don"t think anyone has defined art better than James Hillman. "Art is the visual manifestation of the souls desperate concerns". My art is a way of augmenting feelings and defining observations of common human experiences that tie us together. Hence my work has an expressive, figurative focus, capturing a gestural, symbolic "meaning of the moment". The figures in my work are often portrayed in a decisive, emotional minute that will have a lasting impact on the human condition. My modernist painting style is heavily influenced by the Bay Area Figure Painters of the 1950s and 1960s.
Selected Exhibitions
*Olewine Gallery, The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art, solo exhibition, 2026
*Palmar Museum of Art, Dreaming American Futures”, Invitational, 2026
*The Gallery at Penn College, “ Hundred Mile Radius Juried Exhibition “, 2026
*Art Association of Harrisburg, " Trinity to Infinity”, Three Artists Invitational, 2025
*Artisan Alley Gallery, Shamokin, “Home”, Mid- Atlantic Regional Juried Exhibit, 2025
*Art Space Gallery, Penn State Schuylkill Campus, solo exhibition , 2025
*Friedman Gallery, Misericordia University, “American Dreams” , curated exhibition, 2025
*The Art Grind Gallery, Danville, "The VERY Last Supper", Invitational, 2024
* Center Stage Gallery, Hershey Medical Center, solo exhibition, 2024
*Artisan Alley Gallery, Shamokin, "Static", Mid-Atlantic Regional Juried Exhibit, 2024
*The Gallery at Penn College, "100 Mile Radius Juried Exhibition",2023.
* The Milton Art Academy, "Strange New Worlds", Collaborative Invitational, 2023
*Artisan Alley Gallery, Shamokin, "Intersection", Mid-Atlantic Regional Juried Exhibit, 2023
*The Art Grind Gallery, Danville, "This Is Not A Figure", Invitational, 2023.
*The Art Association of Harrisburg, 94th International Juried Exhibit.
Second place award in painting.2022
*Susquehanna University, Blough- Weis Library, Solo Exhibition, 2021.
*The Art Association of Harrisburg, 93rd International Juried Exhibit, 2021.
* Perry County Arts Council, 6th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition. Second place award in painting. 2020
*The Exchange Gallery, Bloomsburg, Solo Exhibition 2019
*The Arthaus Project Gallery, Williamsburg, "Repurposed" International Juried Exhibition, 2019.
* The Exchange Gallery, Bloomsburg, "The Future", National Juried Exhibition, 2018
*Bloomsburg University, "Differentials", Invitational Exhibition, 2018
*Post and Lintel Gallery, Selinsgrove, Solo Exhibition, 2017
* Converge Gallery, Williamsport, "Zeitgeist" International Juried Exhibition, 2016
* Susquehanna Art Museum, "The City", National Juried Exhibition, 2016
*Susquehanna University, Lore Degenstein Gallery, National Figurative Juried Exhibit, 2015
* State Museum of Pennsylvania, "Construction/Destruction", Statewide Juried Exhibit, 2013
