Annette Davidek (b. 1957, Flint, MI) creates mysterious yet beautiful paintings that reference naturalistic forms, from exotic plants and sea life to microscopic organisms. Combining inspiration from her trips to China and Japan with botanical diagrams and technological illustrations, she layers transparent glazes of oil paint to animate her otherworldly subjects. These colorful forms range in size and opacity, and they vary in color and tone. Davidek strives to "transport the viewer to another place. There is always a ghost behind my paintings. [In fact] there may be several layers of ghosts."
Davidek completed her BFA at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and continued her education by earning an MFA at Hunter College in New York. She has exhibited throughout the United States and now lives and works in Brooklyn.