Born and raised in Georgia, Becci Davis now calls Providence, Rhode Island home. Her research-based creative practice documents personal geography through accumulations of images, text and occupying space with her body. Becci has been the recipient of the RI Humanities’ Public Humanities Scholar Award, the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Visual Art, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in New Genres, and the RISD Museum Artist Fellowship.
One to Sustain 2024
Archival Pigment Print on metallic paper 24″ x 33″
Artist Statement
A river runs from its present in one place to its future in another, gradually and meticulously shaping its surroundings along the way. In its constant flow of water and dynamic change, time collapses. Past, present, and future exist simultaneously. The mothers in my family are also rivers—recorders and keepers of recipes, stories, photographs, documents, and traditions. Through their guidance, I have learned that events of the past simultaneously shape our present and future. I work across media, gathering still and moving images, documents, objects, sound, and oral narratives. These archival elements are transformed by my creative process through layering, sequencing, juxtaposition, manipulating materiality, and adding text. This transformation results in monuments of duality: objects, images, and time-based media that combine past and present, nature and artifice, obsolescence and relevance, strength and oppression, pride and anger, joy and grief, memory and recorded history, evidence and critique.
Additional Info:
Artist’s Website: Becci Davis
Instagram: @bdavissynergy
Part of Growing the NetWorks
This artist was selected by a past NetWorks Rhode Island participant as part of Growing the NetWorks — a 2025 exhibition presented by WaterFire Providence, at the WaterFire Arts Center, celebrating peer-nominated artists from across Rhode Island. Learn more at waterfire.org/growingthenetworks
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
