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Woods Davy — Cantamar 8/10/25
Woods Davy

Cantamar 8/10/25

2025

Cantamar 8/10/25 presents a carefully considered arrangement of raw stone forms balanced atop a granite pad, embodying Woods Davy's decades-long investigation into gravity, equilibrium, and the expressive potential of natural materials. The work belongs to an ongoing series in which Davy selects stones with deliberate attention to their weight distribution, texture, and geological character, then positions them so that precarious balance becomes the defining visual and conceptual tension. The result is a sculpture that reads simultaneously as an act of restraint and one of great physical daring, inviting the viewer to sense the invisible forces holding each element in place. Davy, who has worked in this mode since the 1980s and whose practice is rooted in the coastal landscape of Southern California, brings a meditative quality to work that might otherwise read as purely formal. The title's date-based notation reflects the artist's methodical approach to cataloguing each configuration, acknowledging that these arrangements exist at the intersection of permanence and impermanence. Stone, one of the most enduring of natural materials, is made to feel provisional here, its solidity complicated by the delicate choreography Davy imposes upon it. At 86.4 by 99.1 by 50.8 centimeters, Cantamar 8/10/25 occupies physical space with quiet authority, suited to both residential and institutional settings where its meditative presence can be given room to breathe. Signed by the artist and offered through Scott Richards Contemporary Art, this work represents a mature and fully realized example of Davy's practice for collectors seeking sculpture that rewards sustained attention and carries genuine material intelligence.

Medium
Stone on granite pad
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

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Woods Davy, Cantamar 8/10/25, 2025

Cantamar 8/10/25 presents a carefully considered arrangement of raw stone forms balanced atop a granite pad, embodying Woods Davy's decades-long investigation into gravity, equilibrium, and the expressive potential of natural materials. The work belongs to an ongoing series in which Davy selects stones with deliberate attention to their weight distribution, texture, and geological character, then positions them so that precarious balance becomes the defining visual and conceptual tension. The result is a sculpture that reads simultaneously as an act of restraint and one of great physical daring, inviting the viewer to sense the invisible forces holding each element in place. Davy, who has worked in this mode since the 1980s and whose practice is rooted in the coastal landscape of Southern California, brings a meditative quality to work that might otherwise read as purely formal. The title's date-based notation reflects the artist's methodical approach to cataloguing each configuration, acknowledging that these arrangements exist at the intersection of permanence and impermanence. Stone, one of the most enduring of natural materials, is made to feel provisional here, its solidity complicated by the delicate choreography Davy imposes upon it. At 86.4 by 99.1 by 50.8 centimeters, Cantamar 8/10/25 occupies physical space with quiet authority, suited to both residential and institutional settings where its meditative presence can be given room to breathe. Signed by the artist and offered through Scott Richards Contemporary Art, this work represents a mature and fully realized example of Davy's practice for collectors seeking sculpture that rewards sustained attention and carries genuine material intelligence.

Medium
Stone on granite pad
Dimensions
overall: 86.4 x 99.1 x 50.8 cm
Year
2025
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

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