QUEEN OF PLASTICS

Betsy Davis
As a native Californian, Betsy Davis been studying and exploring themes of spirituality, supernatural phenomenon, myth and ecology in the form of experiential design, new media, sculpture, installation, performance and video works. She has been known to juxtapose material usage, form, content, context, or narrative as a means of exhibiting the dual nature of life. Davis has shown work widely in the U.S., UK and as well as in Japan. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNet, ArtReview, Surface, and i-D magazines, as well as by Christopher Knight for the Los Angeles Times. She has lectured at her alma mater of Art Center College as well at UCLA and USC schools of art. In 2006, the Getty Research Center awarded an artists grant for a Fluxus-inspired performative event to L.A.A.G., a collective of artists that Betsy helped form and was a large part of from 2004-2007. Over the past 5 years, Betsy has worked as an Art Director in the advertising world of New York City, working for such agencies as AKQA, Young&Rubicam, Ogilvy & Mather, Euro RSCG, among others. She now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland studying a post-graduate degree concerning experiential and new media in the ‘Art, Space & Nature’ program at the University of Edinburgh.

• Queen of Plastics
• www.queenofplastics.com,
• Tel: 0777 435 6602
• Email: studio@queenofplastics.com
• Website: www.queenofplastics.com