Davey Mann, Marshall Arts Gallery, 2018
Davey Mann is a visual artist currently maintaining a studio practice at Marshall Arts Gallery in the Edge District, home of Memphis’ own world famous Sun Studios. Davey uses his insight gained from heavy losses of his platoon while serving during the The Last Stand in Mosul, Iraq, followed by a deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan, to explore and process the effect of conflicted standards of masculinity and war on society through his art. In addition, he is in pursuit of finding successful ways to combine both realistic and expressive techniques in singular pieces, in order to create more impactful work that appeals to a broader audience by using the strengths of each area of study together.
In the past two years alone, he has been in 9 shows including Best Of Memphis 2018 and 2019 as well as two print publications. Davey was also recognized during halftime at the Liberty Bowl.