In Davis’ work, construction materials remain raw: unpainted and unsanded pine boards, sheets of cut plywood, screws, and, most recently, mirrors, are the artist’s stock…
Taylor Davis’s meticulous, lyrical plywood constructions at the Green Street T stop in Jamaica Plain belong more to the order of roadside shrine than national cathedral. Davis takes unfinished wood — two-by-fours, packing crates, plywood of the Home Depot variety — and makes whimsical, abstract, human-sized constructions that, despite their roughness and familiarity, feel majestic…