I currently have up on display through March 8th at Glen Echo Photoworks a solo exhibition entitled “Dis/Orientation”. The exhibit consists of 45 images in three rooms. Two rooms are devoted to very large format (20×40, 30×40 and 40×50 inch prints) of images of clouds without horizons or other reference points. The other room is the opposite extreme – 4×5 inch prints of still life images of objects shot on a seamless backdrop, also removing reference points for size, direction, or other context.

The Washington City Paper reviewer Louis Jacobson had this to say about the show:

In his new photography exhibition, Dis/Orientation, Scott Davis doesn’t leave the small things to chance. His exhibit comes in two halves: large, decontextualized images of clouds, and small black-and-white still lifes of common objects. Davis’ clouds have a free-floating approach that owes a clear debt to Alfred Stieglitz’s famous series of “equivalents,” which Davis acknowledges in his artist’s note. Less obviously, Davis credits Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings, a connection evident in the images’ scroll-style hanging. For the second grouping, the presentation also matters: Davis mounts his low-key still lifes without mattes or glass, allowing their natural curling to break the wall of three dimensionality and remind the viewer that photographs are objects, too. Davis’ strongest cloud images leverage high-contrast shades of black and white to play with what the viewer might expect clouds to look like; one of his small still life images, featuring the shadow of an object, channels the same vibe. Of the still life grouping, the most memorable image features what may be the humblest item in the lot: a throwaway latte cup. What makes the image stick is the fact that the cup seems to be hanging from its lid, subverting all visual and gravitational expectations. Scott Davis’ Dis/Orientation runs through March 8 at Photoworks, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. (Open Saturday and Sunday.) glenechophotoworks.org. Free. — Louis Jacobson