Derek Secor Davis
Studio Furniture Maker
By and large this grouping represents my current interest in a less refined and more colorful and textured esthetic.
"Stone Age Table" 1999 33" x 13" x 37" Poplar, acrylic, milk paint
"Precambrian
Tables" 1999
Approximately 33" x 12" x 11"
Poplar, acrylic, milk paint.
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"Vortex
With Four Points" 2000
34" x 19" x 47"
Poplar, milk paint.
"Vessel
Table" 1999
34" x 18" x 46"
Curly Red Oak, poplar, milk paint.
"We
All Fall Down" 2000
24" x 30" x 37"
Curly maple, poplar, walnut, milk paint.
"Weight
Of The World" 2001
34"
x 24" x 74" Cherry,
poplar, milk paint.
"In
The Realm Of The Senses" 2004
35" x 19" x 48"
Pigmented epoxy, cottonwood branches, white ash, poplar, fir, acrylic.
A "very serious" piece about the essence of life.
What came first, the egg or the being?
The curve or the desire? Also a tribute to the Japanese film director Nigish Oshima
from who's 1976 film I took the title for this table
"Sea
Creature" (console table)
34" x 46" x 18"
Dyed oak, curly maple, purple heart.
Part
of an older series in which I played with the fluid
animal and insect forms found in our world.
"Cloisters
Table"
36" x 15" x 42"
East Indian rosewood, purple heart, wenge.
Inspired by the medieval forms observed on a wonderful day at the Cloisters Park in New York City.