Diana Dávila Casasnovas
Santurce, PR, 1962
Santurce, PR, 1962
Sculptor, ceramicist, jewelry designer, draughtswoman, painter and teacher. Dávila earned her BFA at The University of the Arts and a certificate in fine arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1985). In Puerto Rico, she continued her studies in Education at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and took workshops in drawing, painting and ceramics with artists Bernardo Hogan, Jerry Bennett, Luis Ivorra, Ricardo Tena, Joe Carolffi, Gerda Gruber, John Balossi, Loraine de Castro, Frank Cervoni and Raúl Zayas. She has taught at the Art Students League of San Juan, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón and currently at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. She has shown her work in several solo and group exhibitions in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Spain, including the International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics of the Croatian Ceramic Association (2005). Dávila’s sculptural work is characterized by the use of cement, the predominance of blue and green hues and by the configuration of interconnected forms in her compositions.
For me, the creative process, the act of creating through the plastic arts, is a meditative process. During the process, instant images, thoughts, and interwoven emotions are joined together and transformed into the manual labor of creating forms. I explore the theory that we are not alone, that there is an order of which we are part of and in which we are agents of change and evolution.
In my visual style, the sea, as a space that connects us and where trends that visit us flow, is intertwined with images of bridges, reflections, nautical charts, vessels and faces. As a metaphor, these images represent our interaction during the travel of this space and time. If we receive instructions or not, where they come from; if the path is traced or not, if it can be changed, they are unanswered questions that form part of the design of the work. The material that I choose to work and manipulate the process is the portal between our space and time and the dimension from where we are guided and inspired.
Diana Dávila, June 6, 2015
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Alegre Barrios, Mario. “Diana Dávila y sus metáforas de vida”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, Puerto Rico), 16 de diciembre de 2004, p. 3.
Colón Camacho, Doreen. “Trascendental la conciencia ecológica de Diana Dávila”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, Puerto Rico), 4 de enero de 1995, pp. 106-107.
“Espacios creativos”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, Puerto Rico), 23 de noviembre de 2002, p.6.
Dávila, Diana. “La Ingeniería y Agrimensura en la perspectiva escultural”. Revista Tecnomundo, Vol. 1, Núm. 9, Año 2003, p. 5.
Vega, Georgina. “La Bienal de Concreto”. Revista Caras de Puerto Rico, Año 14 (2003), Núm. 09, p. 88.
Catálogo Muestra Nacional de Arte, Programa de Artes Plásticas, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2013. http://www.icp.gobierno.pr/documentos/mna/Catalogo%20MNA%202013.pdf
“Bayamón abre un espacio emergente para artistas”, Ciudad de Bayamón, Abril 27, 2015. http://www.municipiodebayamon.com/bayamon-abre-un-espacio-emergente-para...
Catálogo de la exhibición Barro: Una Celebración, Museo y Centro de Estudios Humanísticos Dra. Josefina Camacho de la Nuez, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, 18 de octubre de 2014 al 18 de enero de 2015. http://tonihambleton.com/uploads/images/CatToniTuraboFacingE.pdf
Benítez, Marimar. “La Flota de Cerámica”. Visión Doble, Revista Digital, January 15, 2014. http://www.visiondoble.net/2014/01/15/la-flota-de-ceramica/