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Carlton Davis
Carlton Davis

Carlton Davis is an author, artist, and architect. In 2024, Davis published a book that recounts 50 years of self-portraits. He wrote for LA Architect and was their design critic. In 2009, He published a book entitled Bipolar Bare, which documents his 40-year struggle with Bipolar Disorder.  In September 2012, he published The Art Dockuments, the story of the Art Dock, the drive-by art gallery. In 2011 Davis had a one-man exhibition in the District Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles. He had writing residencies at Montalvo in Saratoga, CA and at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, CA. Mr. Davis considers himself a draftsman, and sculptor as well as a writer. In his architectural practice he designed the North Hollywood Subway Station for Los Angeles’ MTA Red Line, and the headquarters of the Los Angeles Mission for the homeless. He is known for incorporating artist’s work in his projects. Carlton Davis was a lecturer in Architecture at UCLA, Woodbury University, and an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming. He taught drawing at Otis Art Institute. He graduated from Yale University and the University of London’s Bartlett School of Architecture

Books

An Artist Life

50 years of self-portraits

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The Art Dockuments: Tales of the Art Dock: The Drive-by Gallery

The tales of the Drive-by Art Gallery 1981-1986 are stories of the artists, their art, and their interaction with the city authorities. The Art Dock was a street art gallery in the loading dock of the loft of Carlton Davis. First it was controversial, then it became a community gallery, and one of the highlights of art in LA during the 1984...

Bipolar bare, my life journey with mental disorder, a memoir

Writer, artist, architect Carlton Davis takes you on an illustrated wild ride through his life as a young boy- the chip in a figurative poker game between a socialite father and a nightclub singer mother that includes felony, foster care, and child abuse - to his days as a bohemian artist in Los Angeles; his resurrection as a stable buddhist...