Davis Fandino

Davis discovered his calling as a sculptor as a teen while watching a biography of Michelangelo. Later, finding a lack of appropriate training in art school he dropped out and began apprenticing in art studios where he received traditional and classical training at the foundries and studios of stone carvers and sculptors.

Davis worked as a professional sculptor in the film industry for two decades and has been involved in the creation of special effects for some of Hollywood’s blockbuster films, including his work for Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. on Spider-Man 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Race to Witch Mountain, Smile, and Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. He has also played a significant role in the fabrication of major international art exhibits.

Especially passionate about stone carving, Davis spent a year working in the stone carving studios of Carrara, Italy, a city notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there, some of which Michelangelo used for his renowned sculpture, David. Davis describes his life as an artist so far as a search for the wisdom and virtuosity needed to portray the beauty and truth of the human form.