Artist Biography
Spencer Davis was born in Los Angeles in
1972. By age one he’d been whisked away and transplanted onto a small farm in Hillsboro
Oregon where he was raised through high school. Spencer discovered a love
of drawing at a young age and spent much of his idle time doing this and
building jumps for his B.M.X. bike out of dirt and old plywood. Upon
graduating high school he moved to Seattle
Washington to experience city life and earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from the University of
Washington. In 1996 he returned to Los Angeles to further pollute his mind
and take employment in the toy
industry. His artistic influences include Legos, Star Wars Action figures,
National Geographic, Conan the Barbarian, Vogue Magazine, Otomo Katsuhiro, Frank
Frazetta, Barbie, Robert Williams, Frank Kozik, the phenomenon that is Coop, and
Black Tail Magazine. (In that order.)
The first “Booty Babe” was conceived in 1998 when Spencer
started adding clay to an otherwise skinny, 12" doll. Numerous gallery exhibitions, and many
iterations later, Spencer’s Booty Babe sculptures, have become his personal
canvas with which he expresses his passion for toy collecting, foreign culture,
female beauty, fantasy and low brow art.
Unlikely creator, circa 1978
Spencer and Lili, 1999