Coffee & Conversation with Samo Davis
đź“… Thursday, April 16th
🕛 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
đź“Ť Dunedin Fine Art Center
🎟️ Save Your Seat or RSVP
Join us for Coffee & Conversation at DFAC, where art and insight blend over a great cup of coffee. Sponsored by DFAC’s Sterling Society — with coffee generously provided by Lane’s Lemonade — each session features a guest artist sharing their creative journey. Curatorial Director Danny Olda leads a Q&A to explore the story behind the artist and their work.
Admission is $5, or free for DFAC members—an enriching way to connect with art and the community.
✨ Update: Samo will be joining us LIVE via Zoom as they’re feeling under the weather. We’re so glad they can still be part of the conversation—and this way, everyone stays healthy while we don’t miss out on an inspiring talk!
About Samo Davis
Samo Davis (b.1985) is an interdisciplinary artist whose art practice includes sculpture, digital works, AR. Davis graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts focusing on Japanese translation, creative writing, and sculpture and from Parsons School of Design with an Associates Degree in Fashion Design. Davis has worked in fashion, graphic design, and marketing, and developed their love of VR/AR when working in real estate in New York City.
Davis has shown works in London, New York, Tampa, and Sarasota, showcasing smaller works before developing larger installations. Davis is “multi-cultural kid” who was born in Japan and grew up in Tokyo, Singapore, and later, New York City before transplanting to Sarasota in 2018.
Past Exhibit at DFAC: Low Tide / High Root: APIDA Diasporic Perspectives
Samo Davis recently exhibited at the Dunedin Fine Art Center as part of our Winter Exhibition, Low Tide / High Root: APIDA Diasporic Perspectives. The exhibition brought together seven Tampa Bay artists of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) backgrounds, exploring the blending of cultures, traditions, and technologies through work that moves between personal narratives and collective memory—from reimagined traditional forms to AI-driven animation and pop-culture-inspired storytelling.
Davis, alongside Petra Gurin, presented a collaborative sculptural installation exploring Asian identity through the lens of growth, decay, and memory. The piece incorporated live flower cuttings, perennials, plastic, 3D printing, pompoms, beads, nylon, burlap, chia, mirrors, pottery, Hungarian peppers, and Japanese candy. A small, human-like geometric figure peers over a glass wall, adorned with plants, flowers, and grass—its surface shifting with living elements that symbolize aging, beauty, and the passage of time.
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