Woods Davy: Balancing Act

Sculptor Wood Davy creates precarious yet elegant sculptures that mix manmade and natural elements.

When he lived amid the tall buildings of Broadway in downtown Los Angeles in the late 1970s, his work featured a stone or piece of wood balanced in the middle of angular patterns of steel and paint, reflecting the urban geography around him.

"The work itself seems to possess a quality very similar to Los Angeles," Davy says in "Young Turks." "It's very low-lying and spread out, almost like an urban sprawl."

His more recent works expand on the theme of natural objects in unnatural settings, in this case heavy stones that seem to float in air, not only defying gravity but belying their own nature, as well.

Davy's work is included in many private collections and the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

He shows at Craig Krull Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, as well as other galleries around the world.

He lives in Venice with his wife, Kathleen Dantini, and collects Kifwebe masks from the Democratic Republic of Congo.