Mound and Monolith – MCat Davis

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Mound and Monolith – MCat Davis

Exhibition Dates: December 4-17

Reception: December 11, 6-8pm

Open Hours by appointment

Mound & Monolith is a solo exhibition by artist Mcat Davis featuring paintings on felt fabric and sculptural works that explore the mysterious and imposing presence of hills, mounds, and monumental landforms.

Through an interplay of soft materials, abstract shapes, and sculptural forms, Davis examines the tension between the natural and the constructed, the familiar and the unknown. Hills and mounds emerge as both physical landmarks and enigmatic symbols—suggesting ancient histories, hidden worlds, and the quiet power of the landscape.

Blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture, Mound & Monolith invites viewers to consider these forms not simply as features of the earth, but as vessels of memory, mystery, and imagined significance.

Mcat Davis (b. 1995) is a Dallas-based Artist whose practice currently centers around building Imaginative landscapes. She received her BFA from the University of Mississippi in 2018 and her MFA from the University of North Texas in 2024. Davis has exhibited work across the metroplex, including Craighead Green Gallery and the Norman Brown Gallery, as well as regionally at ICOSA in Austin, TX, and Gallery 130 in Mississippi. Mcat Davis enjoys researching and exploring topics surrounding ephemerality, nature, and human existentialism. With a lengthy background in Dance and performance, the conceptual ideas around the visually intangible have informed and shifted how Davis experiences her existence in the physical world and how she recognizes and catalogs energy exchanges around her. Davis experiments with various mediums, with a primary lean towards abstract paintings influenced by sculpture.

Instagram: @mcat. davis

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