Davana Robedee, “Biformity”

Buffalo Arts Studio is pleased to announce “Biformity,” a solo exhibition by Syracuse-based artist Davana Robedee, on view from August 22 through November 7, 2025. The opening reception will take place on Friday, August 22, 2025, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm as part of M&T Fourth Friday at Tri-Main.

“Biformity” explores the layered relationship between body and spirit, a recurring theme in Robedee’s work. Through large-scale textile pieces created using stitch-resist shibori techniques and indigo dye, Robedee delves into the dualities that shape human existence. The title of the exhibition refers to “double form,” a concept that permeates the show through works addressing physical limitation and spiritual expansiveness. For the artist, these tensions arise from her lived experience with chronic illness and neurological phenomena, including visual aura, lucid dreams, and hallucinations.

Robedee’s practice is deeply tied to labor and process. She grows her own indigo plants, harvesting and extracting the pigment before using it in a slow, methodical process of image-making. The resulting works are visual metaphors that bridge the waking world and dream state, matter and thought, science and mysticism. By guiding the indigo through boundaries and resist techniques, the artist facilitates rather than controls the emergence of form. The dye itself functions as both a symbolic and material representation of duality and change.

Davana Robedee is a visual artist based in Syracuse, New York. She is a recipient of the NYSCA 2025 Support for Artists grant. Robedee’s practice includes drawing, textiles, and installation, often rooted in themes of perception, consciousness, and the natural world. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Southern Methodist University and has exhibited nationally in venues such as the Dallas Contemporary and the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, NC. 

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