Sally Davies (artist)

Davies made the "Lucky Paintings" and "Lucky Chairs" paintings in the 1990s, exhibiting at the OK Harris Gallery, and then at the Gracie Mansion Gallery. Following the Lucky Paintings were the "tattoo paintings", "product paintings", and the "furniture paintings".{{Magazine|In Style Magazine, "Objects of Desire", June 1995, P. 40.]]

Davies simultaneously began to photograph the East Village in the 1980s alongside her painting career. In the mid-1990s she had a fire in her loft on Avenue A and lost almost all her negatives to that date.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDt_dwskaS4|website = ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

In 2000 Davies had her first solo photography exhibit at the Gracie Mansion Gallery in the East Village. The Alien Photos served as a visual bridge between her paintings and her photography.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDt_dwskaS4|website = ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} The final large-scale images consisted of dioramas that she constructed to house the 6-inch alien dolls in Barbie clothes in domestic situations.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies New York City|url = http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2015/11/30/sally-davies-new-york-city-1|website = Women in Photography|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

Davies has been photographing New York City's Lower East Side since 1983.A Democracy of Photos, Scalo Press Zurich, Berlin, New York, Sept 2002, pp.710 She received a New York City Council Citation on February 6, 2014 from Rosie Mendez for her ongoing documenting of the Lower East Side, and the neighborhood's socio-economic changes.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies New York City|url = http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2015/11/30/sally-davies-new-york-city-1|website = Women in Photography|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

Davies exhibited these photographs at the now-closed Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York City, in 2014{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies Lower East Side|url = http://lenscratch.com/2014/02/sally-davies-lower-east-side/|website = Lenscratch|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} and 2015.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies New York At Night|url = http://theartistsforum.org/magazine/archives/reviews/Entries/2015/6/11_GALLERY_REVIEW__SALLY_DAVIES__NEW_YORK_AT_NIGHT.html|website = The Artist's Forum|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

In 2016, Davies traveled to Los Angeles. She photographed Venice and Santa Monica and the surrounding neighborhoods.{{Cite web|title = New York City Photographer Sally Davies Hits The Streets Of Los Angeles|url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-city-photographer-sally-davies-hits-the-streets_us_5827d837e4b0852d9ec21825|website = Huffington Post|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} Since then, she has continued to photograph Texas, Florida, and rural America as well as Western Canada.{{Cite web|title = West Coast Canada|url = https://www.sallydaviesphoto.com/gallery.html?loopTrack=1&folio=PORTFOLIOS&gallery=West%20Coast%20Canada|website = Sally Davies Photo|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

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In 2021 Davies released a book of photographs entitled “New Yorkers.” {{Cite book|url=https://www.kriso.lv/new-yorkers-db-9781781454046.html|title=New Yorkers - Sally Davies - 9781781454046 - Book {{!}} Kriso.ee|language=en}}

New Yorkers presents 72 portraits of people in their apartments.{{Cite web| title=Check out these striking portraits of New Yorkers at home| author=Will Gleason| url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/check-out-these-striking-portraits-of-new-yorkers-at-home-032521| website=Time Out New York| access-date= 2021-04-26}} A cast of drag queens, store owners, doctors, dog walkers, psychics, cab drivers, writers, artists, tattoo artists, gallery owners, photographers, designers, dancers, and musicians (including such legendary New Yorkers as Laurie Anderson, Danny Fields, and William Ivey Long) reveal the diversity, creativity, and humanity at the heart of New York City.{{cite web| title= 'Joy every day': New Yorkers reveal their fabulous apartments – in pictures |website= The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/18/new-yorkers-at-home-sally-davies-in-pictures| access-date = 2021-04-26}}

After betting with a restaurateur friend that McDonald's food did not spoil, rot, or go mouldy, Sally Davies purchased a Happy Meal from McDonald's and began photographing the food item daily, storing it on her kitchen counter.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDt_dwskaS4|website = ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} This commenced the "McDonald's Happy Meal Project". The project began on April 10, 2010.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDt_dwskaS4|website = ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}{{Cite web|title = Why We're Scared of Happy Meals|url = https://www.refinery29.com/happy-meal-art-project|website = Refinery 29|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} The project demonstrated that the Happy Meal looked the same as it did when it was purchased months and years later. On August 19, 2018 the Happy Meal Project reached it 3051st day. It continues to be documented by Sally Davies.{{Cite web|title = Press and Photographs of the Happy Meal|url = https://www.sallydaviesphoto.com/gallery.html?loopTrack=1&folio=PORTFOLIOS&gallery=Happy%20Meal%20Project#/13|website = The Happy Meal Project by Sally Davies|accessdate = 2018-09-17}}

Davies' paintings have been featured on:

• HBO's Sex and the City (episode: "The Cheating Curve")
• Risa Bramon Garcia's film, 200 Cigarettes
• Her "Lucky Chairs" have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Sex and the City.

Davies' portraits include Debra Winger on the cover of Winger's 2008 book "undiscovered" (Simon and Schuster 2008), Elaine Kaufman in Everyone Comes to Elaine's (A. E. Hotchner, Harper Collins Publishers, NYC, 2004), and Jim Cuddy's CD, "The Light That Guides You Home" (Warner Music Canada, 2006), and Jim Cuddy's CD, "Skyscraper Soul" 2011 (Warner Canada)

Her photographs of the 9/11 attacks can be found in "A Democracy of Photos" (Scalo Press, Zurich, Berlin & New York, 2002).

In 2018, Davies art directed and photographed the cover image for Jim Cuddy's album Constellation.

Her paintings and photographs are in the collections of Harvard Business School, Sarah Jessica Parker, Debra Winger, Michael Patrick King, Phil Scotti, Jane Holzer, Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and others.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies New York City|url = http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2015/11/30/sally-davies-new-york-city-1|website = Women in Photography|accessdate = 2018-09-17}} Davies' work is also in the permanent collection of The Museum of the City of New York.{{Cite web|title = Sally Davies New York City|url = http://mcny.org|website = The Museum of the City of New York|accessdate = 2019-03-22}}

• New Yorkers, Ammonite Press, 2021{{Cite book|url=https://www.kriso.lv/new-yorkers-db-9781781454046.html|title=New Yorkers - Sally Davies - 9781781454046 - Book {{!}} Kriso.ee|language=en}} {{ISBN|1-781-45404-3|}}
• Street Photography [https://streetphotography.com/the-woman-who-took-ginsbergs-apartment/] "The Woman Who Took Ginberg's Apartment" March 10, 2017
• Huffington Post [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5827d837e4b0852d9ec21825?timestamp=1479009367967] "New York City Photographer Sally Davies Hits The Streets of Los Angeles" by Michael Ernest Sweet Nov 12, 2016
• Huffington Post [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ernest-sweet/new-york-photographer-sal_b_8775414.html] "Photographer Sally Davies Discusses Women Street Photographers York City" by Michael Ernest Sweet Dec 15, 2015
• ISO 400, A Podcast by The Phoblographer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDt_dwskaS4] "Sally Davies Talks About Photographing the East Village" November 6, 2015
• Women in Photography [http://www.womeninphotography.info/blog/2015/11/30/sally-davies-new-york-city-1] "Sally Davies New York City" November 30, 2015
• Huffington Post [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ernest-sweet/sallys-title_b_7771070.html] "New York City in Color: The Photography of Sally Davies" by Michael Ernest Sweet July 14, 2015
• The Artist's Forum [http://theartistsforum.org/magazine/archives/reviews/Entries/2015/6/11_GALLERY_REVIEW__SALLY_DAVIES__NEW_YORK_AT_NIGHT.html] Sally Davies New York At Night June 6, 2015
• PDN "Five Photos, No Words: Sally Davies" by David Carol November 11, 2003
• 100 Millimetri "Street Photography in New York: Sally Davies Interview" October 24, 2013
• Saatchi Online "SpotLight" [http://blog.saatchiart.com/post/2524526935/east-4th-street-car-by-sally-davies-pigment-ink East 4th Street Car by Sally Davies (photo only)] December 2010
• Refinery 29 [https://www.refinery29.com/happy-meal-art-project] "Why We're Scared of Happy Meals" August 26, 2010.
• The Happy Meal Project by Sally Davies [https://www.sallydaviesphoto.com/gallery.html?loopTrack=1&folio=PORTFOLIOS&gallery=Happy%20Meal%20Project#/13] "Press and Photographs of the Happy Meal" August 19, 2018.
• A Democracy of Photos, Scalo Press Zurich, Berlin, New York, Sept 2002, pp. 710 - "Missing Brother" and pp. 711 - "I Will Not Be Terrorized".
• Loft, Mayer Rus and Paul Warchol, Monacelli Press, New York, 1998, p. 106.
• Tattoo Review Magazine, "Lucky Charm Art by Sally Davies", December 1997, pp. 17, 18, 19, 20.
• Hot Lava Magazine "Feature Artist Sally Davies " Sept. 1996, pp. 62, 63, 64.
• In Style Magazine, "Objects of Desire", June 1995, p. 40.
• Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, Geri DePaolo and Wendy McDaris, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1994, p. 130.
• Parachute Magazine, "Sally Davies/Franc Palaia", Susan Douglas, July/August/September, 1994, pp. 50 – 51.

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• [http://www.sallydaviesphoto.com Sally Davies Official Website]

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