Betsy Davis
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Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Davis (b. in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles and New York City.
Davis finished her studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and graduated in 2000. Before pursuing a career in art she took a six-month artist residency in Milan, Italy.
Davis works primarily with synthetic material to construct sculpture and site-specific installation art defining her view concerning theology, consumerism, and metaphysical phenomena. Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, ArtWeek, ArtReview, Surface (magazine), i-D Magazine, and Coagula Art Journal [citations needed]. She has shown work in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Tokyo, and New York City.
Davis is inspired by the California desert, mathematics, modern spirituality, botany, consumerism, and biosynthetic technology.