Evelyn Davis

Evelyn Davis (b. 1979) is an artist based in the Bay Area. She works with various media to produce weavings, sculpture, and abstract works on paper. Many of her pieces are meditations on landscape, patterning, and movement. Her palette ranges from highly saturated to more muted tones, and long, meandering lines—drawn in pencil, coiled in clay, or stitched in thread—trace her sensitive manipulation of space. Davis pays particular attention to the edges of her surfaces, allowing the abstract scenes to slip in and out of frame.

As an active participant in NIAD’s Field Trip and Studio Visit Programming, Davis has captured many sites around the Bay Area in lyrical plein-air paintings and drawings. Her small woven tapestries similarly incorporate local fibers and branches collected on walks in nature.

Evelyn Davis joined NIAD Art Center in 2018. Her work has been featured in numerous online exhibitions, as well as in Art of the African Diaspora at the Richmond Art Center (2024, 2023) and Into the Brightness at the Oakland Museum of California (2023).