Mcat Davis is an interdisciplinary artist and an educator in Denton,TX at the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. Originally from Dallas, Davis earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Mississippi in 2018, where she focused her studies on drawing and painting. Upon returning to DFW, she began showing work locally through spaces such as Craighead Green Gallery and the Bathhouse Cultural Center all while working with middle school students. Davis moved north to Denton to attend Graduate School where she earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 2024. Since relocating to Denton, Davis has continued to show her work regionally, teach classes through UNT, and enjoys curating group shows around the metroplex. Her own work currently explores possibility and potential of imagined worlds and spaces through painting. By forming a visual vocabulary for forces that have an Intangible form, Davis builds and creates imagined bodies and places that straddle her experience and imagination. She is drawn to the infinite possibilities in emptiness, in-between, and the fleeting. With a long background in dance and choreography, her art practice is activated by physicality and steady motion. She dissects personal interactions and observations into simple forms and colors that she associates with her experiences while leaving room for transformation. Davis strives to marry a consciousness for her surroundings with imaginative possibilities. MCat uses the seemingly mundane as a vessel for creating undulating creatures, timelines, and worlds that might extend from our own.

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