David E. Davis devoted over thirty years of his life to creating sculpture, and prior to that he was a painter. This artist was born in Romania in 1920, but he studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and had resided in Ohio. Davis is well recognized in the Midwest where he has been represented in over seventy solo and group exhibitions. He gained national recognition in the 1970s as part of a group called Visual Logic during which he created his Harmonic Grid series. In this group of works, Davis restricted compositions to a system he devised that utilizes only three basic geometric shapes with predetermined proportions. He was also the founder and chairman of the Sculpture Center in Cleveland. Davis passed away in 2002. Sound of the Fourth of July, from a series of Sound Towers developed for outdoor placement, stands twelve feet high and is assembled from stainless steel parts in a way that recalls the work of the Constructivists. Wing-shaped plates with geometric cut-outs are suspended within a three-dimensional linear grid. When the wind moves they collide, causing a clattering while transferring kinetic energy to sound waves. Works by David E. Davis currently on view in the sculpture park: Sound of the Fourth of July, 1997
stainless steel
144” x 48” x 48”
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
This work is currently on view in a traveling exhibition in Sarasota, FL. | 
