Bison
silkscreen
1984

At art school in Texas in the early seventies, the students at ETSU were lucky to have Lee Baxter Davis for a printmaking teacher. His primary medium is etching, but his passion is metaphysics and he was very inspiring. The first day of art school I saw his work on the walls and knew that this was the place for me. Monster planets, inhabited by tiny humanoid bee colonies, spun through universes of rotting crows and flounders in his etchings and watercolors. He bore a striking resemblance to Ulysses S. Grant, and his lectures, delivered from tabletop while flailing both arms, were masterful demonstrations of paradox, hyper-spacial analogical associations and image resonance.




©2003 Gary Panter