Carlton Davis
curriculum vitae

Born: August 9, 1944, Rochester, New York

Education

Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts

Mount Hermon School, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Graduated, 1962

Yale University, B.A., Art and Architecture, 1968

  • Courses included: Josef Albers Color Course, Drawing taught by Neil         Welliver, Photography taught by Walker Evans, Architectural History    taught by Vincent Scully

  • Scholarship employment at the Yale University Art Museum in the Prints    and Drawings Department

Yale Summer Art School at Norfolk, Connecticut, 1967

  • Courses in drawing by Robert Moscowitz, painting by Knox Martin, Jack     Tworkov, and Helen Frankenthaler

University of London, London, UK, Diploma in Architecture, 1969

  • Studied with Reyner Banham, Cedric Price, and Robert Maxwell

Yale University School of Architecture, Master of Architecture, 1971

  • Studied with Charles Moore, Moshe Safie, and James Stirling

Art Institute of Chicago, 1972 - 1973

  • Courses in drawing, welding and sculpture

Solar Design Certificate, Colorado State University, 1974

Otis Art Institute, 1978

  • Performance Art course with Rachel Rosenthal

Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), 2006

  • Construction Document Technologist (CDT)

Teaching Experience

University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering, 1972 – 75. Taught courses in design, lighting, materials, specifications, and construction documents.

UCLA, Lecturer in Architecture, 1978-1981, taught courses in design, construction documents, and professional practice

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Drawing Instructor, 1984

Woodbury University, Los Angeles, Architectural Design Lecturer, 1986

Woodbury University, Los Angeles, Guest Lecturer in Construction Management, 2000

Exhibitions and Art Experience

“The Past Retooled; The Present Rebooted” Solo Exhibition at the District Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 30 – June 12, 2015

“In Your Face Exhibition: How Artists Transformed LA’s Urban Landscape,” Angel City Brewery sponsored by the District Gallery, Los Angeles, History of the Art Dock, with photographs by Ed Glendinning, Irving Geines and Stephen Seemayer April 11 – June 9, 2012.

Group Exhibition displaying Torrey Pine drawing by Carl Davis, Theodore Payne Foundation, Tujunga, CA, February 4 – April 1, 2012

Downtown Lives Exhibition, Downtown Arts Development Association group show, 1895 Bay Street, Los Angeles, CA, “Rodney King in Paradise, sculptural drawing by Carl Davis, 1994

The Tanzmann Associates, group show: Michael Hughes, Jeff Kaisershot, Carl Davis, 820 East Third St. Los Angeles, CA, June 27- September 1, 1989

Resident writer, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA, July –August 1987

The Art Dock, the Drive-by Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator and Exhibitor 1980-86

AAA Art Gallery, Carl Davis sculpture and portraiture, Los Angeles, CA, March 25 - April 21, 1984

The XX 5 –Minute Performance Olympics at the Orwell Memorial Art Space, 240 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, April 15, 1984

Resident, Dorland Mountain Art Colony 1982 and 1984

Llama Club Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, April, 1983

Hillby’s Group Exhibition, March, 1983

Exile Gallery, Exhibition with Pamela Burgess, January 9 – February 6,1983

“Target LA,” Mail Art Exhibition, Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1982

“Self Portraits, Group Exhibition,” American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982

“Sex in Exile,” Group Exhibition, Exile Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1982

“Drawings Signs and Symbols,” Solo Exhibition, School of Architecture, University of California at Los Angeles, 1980

Resident writer, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA.CA, 1987

“American Painters in Paris,” Palais Des Congres, Porte Maillot, Paris France, January, 1976, two oil paintings in the exhibition

“Ithaca Woods Under the George Washington Bridge,” environmental installations in collaboration with John Sturgeon, video artist, 1969

Books

The Art Dockuments, Tales of the Drive-by Art Gallery, 2012

Book prizes:

  • The Southern California Book Awards, Winner in the Art Category, 2012

  • The Beverly Hills Book Awards, Winner in the Art Category, USA Best Book Awards, Finalist, 2012

Bipolar Bare, My life’s Journey with Mental Illness – A Memoir, 2009

Book prizes

  • National Indie Excellence Book Award- Finalist, Memoirs 2009

  • Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention - Memoirs 2010

  • Eric Hoffer Award; Montaigne Metal, Finalist, 2010

Documentary Films, Video, Radio, and Television

Interview of Carlton Davis Jr. by Denise Dador of KABC-TV, April 13, 2015, appeared on the 5 0’clock news, “Artist Survives Potentially Fatal Heart infection To Mount His Exhibit. 

Interview of Carlton Davis Jr. by Steven Seemayer for the film, “Tales of the American Hotel,” June 23, 2014

“OF TWO MINDS,” by Doug Blush, an Academy Award Winner, and Lisa Klein, 2012.  Winner of the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Voice Award, 2013. The film about Bipolar Disorder features Carlton Davis Jr. as one of four primary characters.

Docking The Art Dockuments, Kickstarter.com  This project was funded successfully on July 2, 2012.

“Without Your interpretation,” a video by Ulysses Jenkins of his performance at the Art Dock, September 18, 1983. This video was featured in “Now Dig This!” Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles and is in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 2011

“Bipolar Bare,” Interview of Carlton Davis Jr. on Blogger News Network, Blog Talk Radio with Simon Barrett, May 3, 2009

“Drugs, Death, and Destruction,” discussion with Carl Davis, defense lawyer, Mitch Stone, and novelist, Armando Aldazabar, on Blogger News Network Talk with Simon Barrett, August 29, 2009

“Downtown LA,” an original treatment by Carl Davis, registered with WGA/West and represented by STE Representation, Beverly Hills, CA1984

ABC News Report by Jonanne Ishimine on the theft of Gary Lloyd’s “Defense Spending” sculpture from the Art Dock, July 11, 1982. The news report lead to a sighting of the stolen sculpture mounted on a wall above a fireplace in East Los Angeles. The police raided the house and captured a gang that specialized in stealing appliances and TV.   The sculpture was impounded in San Diego for use in the trial. Gary Lloyd got his sculpture back several years later.

“Striking it…Poor”, CBS News report by Furnell Chapman, September 8,1982. Carlton Davis interviewed as the new poverty. I said, “I am an artist, and artists were generally poor,” but that didn’t interest CBS.

“The Grand Egress,” a film script based on Barnum and Bailey’s Grand Egress by Carl Davis and Jane Gaskill, copyrighted 1982.

Publications /Writing

New Journal, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971

  • “Vietnam War Memorial,” designer and author

Neuf, Brussels, Belgium, 1973

  • A New School for Milton Keynes, Thesis, Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London, UK

Bay Area Architects Review, San Francisco, CA, 1979

  • “The Challenge of Exterior of Exterior Decoration in Post Modern Design”

  • “Goodbye Stark White, Hello Ionic Chrome”

UTurn 2, a tri-quarterly art journal, managing editor, James Hugunin

  • “ Wolf At The Door, guest editor Carl Davis.  “Docking in Space” and “Art   and Architecture,” articles and drawing by Carl Davis. The history of the Art Dock and the legalization of artist residency in Los Angeles warehouse    buildings, Winter, 1983

Spectacle, a field journal from Los Angeles, #4, 1985

  • June 18.1925, The Eiffel Tower, the Citroen Sign

L.A. Architect, Critique Editor, and Chairman of the Editorial Board, 1989– 94

  • “Critic of the Critics,” March 1989

  • “LA Times Parking Garage Critique,” May 1989

  • “Changing the Focus of Architecture,” April 1990

  • “Center West: Gateway to Westwood,” Westwood Issue, May 1990

  • “Bass on Gas,” Interview with Saul Bass, July 1990

  • “Interview of Michael Gage, President of LA Board of Water and Power Commissioners “with Walter Scott Perry, November, 1990

  • “Looking for the Center,” Essay on Downtown LA, Downtown issue, December 1990

  • “Housing for Artists?” The Citizens Warehouse and the Venice Art Block, Two Poles in the Evolution of Artist Housing, February, 1991

  • “Chugging Down the Churrigueresque Boulevard,” Essay on Hollywood and the El Captain Theatre, Hollywood issue, May, 1991

  • “Exhibit Review: High Speed Roadway as the Generator of New Urban Form and Urban Landscape” at the LA Municipal Gallery, June, 1991

  • “East of Eden,” an Interview of Ed Avila, Chief CRA Administer, East LA issue with Greg Villanueva, December, 1991

  • “Architects! Got the Maserati Blues,” a review of Tronsoft Computer Program Seminar, January, 1992

  • “I was the New Poverty,” a humorous essay on survival, Special Recession issue, February, 1992

  • “Bohemia at the Beach,” Venice, CA Issue, May, 1992

  • “The Industrial Oasis,” a review of the Fleet Services Center by Barton Phelps and Clements and Clements Architects and the Palmetto Construction Headquarters by Walter Scott Perry for Neil Stanton Palmer Architects, June 18, 1992

  • “One Year On…: Business as Usual,” Article on the aftermath of the LA Riots, April, 1993

  • “Along the Edges and Gaps of Pasadena,” Learning from Pasadena issue, September, 1993

  • “The Northridge Quake: Shake, Rattle, Crack, Collapse and Get Back UP,” AIA National Convention in Los Angeles Issue, May, 1994

  • “Linda Griego’s RLA: Small is beautiful,” Interview with Mitizi March Mogul, AIA National Convention in Los Angeles Issue, May, 1994    

  • “Le Grand Louvre,”AIA National Convention in Los Angeles Issue, May, 1994

  • Changes at L.A. Architect,” Francis Anderton, Editor, Leaves the Publication, June, 1994

  • In 1994 L.A. Architect was recognized as the best chapter publication by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

The Downtown News, reporter, 1995

  • Disillusioned in the Loft District, January, 1995

  • Boom Cycle Boomerang: Peso Problem Suddenly Hits the Garment District, February 20, 1995

  • Disney Hall: Will It be Worth it, June, 1995

 

Coagula Art Journal, Contributor

  • #16 Eric Owen Moss: Swizzling Clients While Swindling Culture written as Chumley Dishmore, January, 1995

  • #18 Archi-torture written as Chumley Dishmore, October, 1995

  • #95 $500/Square Foot, Such a Bargain These Artist Lofts, December,        2008

                       

Yale-China Review, Autumn 2011

  • Poem Huang Shan Mountain Blues

Featured in Publications

Pasadena Weekly, January 17, 2013

  • “Dockument’ing History:” Pasadena Writer Recalls the Birth of the    Downtown LA Art Scene by Carl Kozlowski

Los Angeles Weekly, May 3-9, 2013

  • “How the Arts District Got its Name,” by Catherine Wagley

Pasadena Weekly, August 5, 2010

  • “Laid Bare,” Carlton Davis finds the way to recovery in “Bipolar Bare” by     Carl Kozlowski

Downtown News, October 31, 1994

  • “The Anti-Landmarks: A Tour of the Periphery of the City’s History,” by Jon             Regardie

Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1994

“Architects’ Tour Shows L.A. As a Land of Extremes,” by Larry Gordon. A report on “The Real L.A. Tour” led by Carlton Davis that was part of the        American Institute of Architects national convention in LA

The LA Reader, July 29, 1983

  • “The Loft Scene is Dead” by J. Rossellini. Article featured the Art Dock

Yale Daily News, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 21, 1965

  • “Org” Draws Looks, Flies by John Rothchild, a story on Organic Art rejected by the Saybrook Arts Festival and the creation of the Salon de Refuse

Websites and Blogs

www.carltondavisart.com   Images of drawings, sculptures, designs, and diary pages

www.artdock.net

 

Articles

  • “Dead Artists Address Our Time,” April 19, 2015, a review of Word Theatre’s performance of Granta’s Dead Interviews on April 17,2015, Burbank, CA

  • “The Last Lunch Regurgitated,” April 10, 2015, the press release for the exhibition “The Past Retooled; The Present Rebooted, by Carlton Davis at the District Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • “La Miniatura Crumbles,” August, 2014, a report on the present state of the Frank Lloyd Wright house

  • “Seeing While Just Dully Walking Along in Vienna,” June, 2014, Vienna and the film “Museum Hours” discussed

  • “No Monster Warehouses,” June, 2014, the film “Captain Phillips” and the economics of global economics and container warehouses discussed

  • “You Shouldn’t Have Been There, Downtown Was Hell, in the 1980s,” March, 2014, reminiscence on the center city before it was a cool place.

  • “Axman Returns: Suit Shredded,” March, 2014, Gary Lloyd exhibition and performance at the Napa Hall Gallery, California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), a review

  • “Mirror, Mirror On The Wall; Who Sees It All?”, March, 2014, Echo Park and Downtown LA, two fleeting myths of an always transient city

  • “Corigliano Interruptis,” March, 2014, a report on Dudamel conducting Corigliano’s Symphony #1 interrupted by loud bellows

  • “In the Belly of the Whale – Coleen Sterritt’s Exhibition at Another Year in LA Gallery, December, 2013.” a review of the venue and the show

  • “Updating the Pickle Preservation,” November 2013. A report of the efforts to save the historic building

  • “The Off Ramp to Contemporary Art,” November, 2013, a report on Altadena, CA’s Off Ramp Gallery, Kirk Pederson’s Exhibition of photographs, and Zero+ Publishing

  • “Ulysses Jenkins at the Art Dock in the Whitney,” November 10, 2013, a report of the selection of Ulysses Jenkins’ video, “Without Your Interpretation” for the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

  • “Touring Raymond Chandler’s LA, “August, 2013, an account of Estouric’s bus tour of Chandler’s Los Angeles

  • “Shadows of the Past – The John Soane Museum, London,” June, 2013, a report on this iconic architect’s house that became a museum that holds works by Turner, Canaletto, Gandy, and Hogarth’s “Rake’s Progress”

  • “The Victoria and Albert Museum – Costume Shop with Accessories,” June 10, 2013, a report of a visit to the remodeled museum

  • “My Art Odyssey,” June 2013, a report on a tour made of LA openings from Bergamot Station to LA Brea Avenue, and Chinatown on April, 20, 2013

  • “The Bastardized Barnes – The Architecture,” February, 2013, a review of the new Barnes Museum in Philadelphia

  • “The Barnes Foundation – The Art,” March 121, 2013, a review of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art collection

  • “Life as Art,” February 8, 2013, a discussion referencing Yoko Ono and Marcel Duchamp, that the artist’s life is art.

  • “The Most Famous Loading Dock of All,” February 6, 2013, an article about the loading dock in Elia Kazan’s film, “On The Waterfront”

  • “Mind Work by Peter Clothier,” January 4, 2013, a review of the art critic’s book

  • “Detroit, The Artist’s UTO PIA,” December, 2012, a review of the film “Detropia,” by Loki Films

  • “The Pool Party is Over,” August 6, 2012, a review of the Pacific Standard Time Exhibitions

  • “Two and a Half Days in Cleveland,” April, 2012, a look at Cleveland, a city which an African American woman said, “Nobody comes to Cleveland.”

  • “Comic Kazi calli O’peas,” March 5, 2012, a dada poem

  • “Pacific Standard Times Profusion,” February 27, 2012, a look at three less-known, PST Exhibitions: PMSA’s exhibition of LA Raw, Chinese- American Architects, and LA Performance Art at L.A.C.E

  • “The Time is Now,” February 12, 2012, a call to save the Pickle Factory “Perfectly Pellucid in Paradise, January 11, 2012,” a review of the exhibition, California Design 1930 to 1965 – Living in a Modern Way, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as part of the Pacific Standard Time Exhibitions

  • “Under the Black Sun in High Heels,” October 3, 2011, a first look at a Pacific Standard Time Exhibition

  • “The Pickle has been lopped, but still stands,” August 8, 2011, an account of the 70-foot cut off of the Pickle Factory

  • “Hate It, Love It, The Street Art Show, May 11, 2011,” a review of the MOCA exhibition

www.bipolarbarebook.com

  • “I am a Suicide Survivor,” September, 2014, a report on Dese’Rae Stage’s interview with Carlton Davis, Jr. for the website Livethroughthis.org

  • “I.B.B.B.S.S. (Irritable Bariatric Bipolar Bowel Suicide Syndrome,” August, 2014

  • “Bye, Bye, Blackbird, “July 2, 2014,an article on to the town of birth, Rochester, my grandmother’s house in Brighton, Corning, and my mother’s grave in Buffalo, NY,

  • “Frustration Followed by Anger Becomes Depression,” June, 2014,

  • an article on the indicators of depression

  • “Love and Isolation,” November, 2013, a review of the book, 8 Habits of Love, by Ed Bacon,

  • “The Final Breath,” August, 2013, an article about stress and breathing problems,

  • “The Living Room at Turning Point, Skokie, Illinois,” June, 2013, a report on an innovative program at the Turning Point Behavioral Health Center,

  • “Military Serial Killer is Not The Only One Guilty,” April, 2013, a discussion of the conviction of Sergeant John Russell, a seriously mentally ill man for second-degree murder

  • “The New Lepers Are Out To Gun You Down,” February, 2013, a viewpoint on the societal attitudes about serial killers

  • “Anyone Can Go Psycho,” January, 2013, a story about a friend, who killed his wife in a fit of rage

  • “Is Suicide a Political Act,” September 2012, thoughts provoked by James Gilligan’s book “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others”

  • “OF TWO MINDS premiered at the Cleveland Film Festival,” a review of the premiere events of the film that features Carlton Davis, Jr., April, 2012

  • “The Pain in My Brain,” May 2012, an article about what I call “The Attack of the Black Brain”

  • “Laura’s Law and Kendra’s Law, Bandages and Bondage,” January, 2012, a negative perception of these two laws concerning forced treatment of the mentally ill

  • “Unhinged by the Epidemic of Mental Illness,” November, 2011, the issue of drug use in treating mental illness as questioned in the book, “From Unhinged, The Trouble with Psychiatry — A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis,” by Daniel J. Carlat, M.D.

  • “The Emotional Anxiety of Prison Visitation,” August, 2011, a report on how the visitor who visits an inmate at a California Prison is treated

  • “Chinky, the Chinaman,” July 2011, the damage created by nick names and ethnic labels

  • “Mad Sisyphus -- New Thoughts on an Old Book,” April, 2011, a comparison of “Madness,” by Marya Hornbacker and “The Myth of Sisyphus,” by Albert Camus

  • “Crazy-Making Dyslexia,” March, 2011, an article about learning disabilities

  • “Let Me Shoot You, I ‘m Mentally Ill,” January, 2011, an article about killers with mental illness

  • “Magic Mental Meds Make Me Mad,” December, 2010, the problems that can be encounter with different psychotropic medications

  • “Cross-dressing, Sex, and Bipolar Disorder,” November, 2010, an article about high-risk behavior

  • “Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde,” November, 2010, an article about my female alter ego

  • “Seesawing on the Bipolar Coaster: Riding the Edge of Madness with Two Minds,” September, 2010, an article about brain behavior

  • “On Tom Wootton and Bi-polar in Order,” September, 2010, an article about the concepts of Tom Wootton, author and therapist

  • “Driving Crazy,” September, 2010, road rage and Bipolar Disorder

  • “Power to Crazy People,” July 2010, a commentary on the views of controversial psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, expressed at the INPP Conference, Manchester, UK

  • “Suicide, The Long-Term Solution to a Short-Term Problem,” April, 2010, thoughts on suicidal thinking

  • “Attacks of the Black Brain,” May, 2010, losing things and anger trigger deep depression

  • “Carlton Davis on Carlton Davis,” March, 2010, a contemplation on all the different men named Carlton Davis found on the Internet

  • I” think I am better than I am,” March, 2010, grandiosity is a characteristic of Bipolar Disorder

  • “The Attack of the Inanimate Objects,” March, 2010, the irritation of stumbling, tripping, and snagging will trigger anger leading to depression

  • “The Two-Minded Self,” January, 2010, an aspect of Bipolar Disorder is feeling like you have two different selves

  • “Sour Grapes on a Bad Day,” an article about bad moods, September, 2009 (deleted from website 2014)

  • “Carl on Blogtalkradio Again”, August, 2009 (Deleted from website 2014)

  • “Art on Capitol Hill,” a commentary about the art in Congress members Richard Dreier’s and Adam Schiff’s offices, August, 2009 (deleted from website 2014)

  • “Double Tragedies” at NAMI Convention in San Francisco, an article about the symposium “Double Tragedies, Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty for People with Severe Mental Illness,” July, 2009, (deleted from website 2014)

  • “My First Mad Man,” April, 2009, an article about my college roommate, who committed suicide, (deleted from website 2014)

  • “Ex-patient of Controversial Mental Hospital Speaks Out,” March, 2009, a commentary about Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, CA, the target of government investigations, (deleted from website 2014)

  • “Frustration,” February, 2009, an article about frustration as a trigger for madness

  • “Disappearing on Seroquel,” December, 2009, the negative effects on Seroquel on the author

  • “A Crop More Valuable Than Wheat” October, 2009, a commentary on the unwinnable war against illegal drugs

  • “The Question I get asked a lot,” September 2009, a response to the question, “Do psych medications effect your creativity?”

  • “Psycho Doughnuts,” July 2009, an article about the mental-illness-themed doughnut shop in Campbell, CA

  • “No Meds Manic,” July, 2009, the author’s experiences with mania before bipolar medication

  • “The Gift of Bipolar Disorder,” March, 2009, a viewpoint that looks at the mental illness as special aspect of personality

  • “The Healing Power of Buddhism,” February 2009,an article on how Buddhism practices can heal mental illness

www.livethroughthis.org/#/carlton-davis/ April 13, 2014,an interview with Dese’Rae Stage for her website featuring suicide survivors

www.goodreads.com, October 14, 2012, a review of Bipolar Bare by Wendy.

www.examiner.com/books-in-los-angeles/five-favorite-books-by-artist-and-author-carlton-davis  April 2010

www.bipolarcentral.com, March 2010, an interview by David Oliver of Carlton Davis

www.blogtalkradio/chris-teece/2010/02/03/Authors-spotlight-bipolarbare-author-carltondavis

www.psychologytoday.com/the-bipolar-coaster, This blog reprints articles written for www.bipolarbarebook.com

Organizations

American Institute of Architects

Toastmasters

NAMI

Project Return Peer Support Network; Commerce, CA, board member 2012-14

Los Angeles River Artists and Businessmen’s Association, Board Member, 1993-95

Downtown Artist Development Association, Board Member, 1992-94

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California, Board Member: 1986-1990

Los Angeles Art Housing Corporation, President 1985 -1987

Public Speaking Presentations – Art

The Arts District: The Development of an Art Scene and the Art of Development, panel discussion presented by Cartwheel Art at the LA Art Show, LA Convention Center, January 18, 2015

The Art Dock and the Pickle Factory presentation to Cartwheel Arts District Tour, September 29, 2013

The Art Dock and the Pickle Works presentation to the Downtown LAVA tour, Center Street, LA, CA, August 24, 2013

Art Documents book signing, downtown Art Walk, Main Street, LA, CA, July 11, 2013

Interview of Carlton Davis by Richard Schave of LAVA, at the “In Your Face” Exhibition, Iron City Brewery, Alameda Ave, LA, CA, May 9, 2013

The Art Dock and the Citizens Warehouse presentation to the Los Angeles River Artist’s and Businessmen’s Association at Art Share, 804 4th Place, LA, CA, April 1, 2013

Art Dock presentation, California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), February 25, 2013

“Art Dockuments: The Drive-by Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles – Revisited and Reassessed” at the Armory Center for the Arts, January 18, 2013

Interview of Carlton Davis Jr. on Which Way LA KCRW, 89.3, Los Angeles, CA, January 16, 2013

Art Dockuments: Tales of the Art Dock, The Drive-by Gallery Book presentation, Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, February 24, 2013

“Art Dock and The Downtown LA Art Community” PowerPoint presentation to The LAVA (Los Angeles Visionaries Association) Salon at Clifton Cafeteria, August 23, 2013

Interview of Carlton Davis by Mat Gleason on The Art Dockuments, LA Art Stream website by Mark Walsh, November 6, 2012

The Art Dockuments book signing, Downtown Art Walk, Reynolds Gallery, 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA, October 11, 2012

 

Public Speaking Presentations – Mental Health

Celebrity Suicide, Contradiction, Fear, and Falsity, PowerPoint presentation the Wilshire Rotary Club, Ebert Club, Lucerne Ave, Los Angeles, December 3, 2014

Law Enforcement Confronts Mental Illness” PowerPoint Presentation to the

H.O.P.E. Teams of Pasadena, Burbank, Alhambra, and Long Beach Police Departments at Police Headquarters, Pasadena, CA, October 29, 2014

“OF TWO MINDS” film presentation and panels and question and answer sessions: 

  • The Reel Minds, a theater and film series about mental illness at the Cinema Theatre, Rochester, NY, June 10, 2014

  • Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center, Evanston, Illinois, April 8, 2013

  • NOHO Film Festival, Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA, August 25 and 26, 2012

  • Film Premiere, Cleveland International Film Festival, 1260 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, March 24, 2012

The Absurd Word, My Life’s Journey with Bipolar Disorder keynote speech, 21st Annual Conference of DBSA California, San Jose, CA, October 15, 2011

The Bipolar Coaster, PowerPoint presentation to the Minnesota Association of Community Mental Health Programs (MACMHP), Fall Conference, at the Duluth Convention Center, Duluth, MN, September 29, 2010

  • MHA National Conference, Washington D.C., presentations to Congress members David Dreier and Adam Schiff, June 11, 2009

The Bipolar Coaster: Riding the Edge of Madness with My Two Minds; and Carlton and Carlotta: How I Came to Love My Other Self,” 13th International Conference of the International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP), June, 2010, Manchester, United Kingdom

Seesawing on the Bipolar Coaster: Riding the Edge of Madness with Two Minds PowerPoint presentation to the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies (CASRA), April 8, 2010, San Mateo, CA

The Bipolar Coaster Presentations to:

  • NAMI West Covina, Christ United Methodist Church, West Covina, CA, October 27, 2011

  • Mental Health Day Pasadena, Vroman’s Bookstore, Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, May 14, 2011

  • NAMI Antelope Valley, Lancaster, CA November 15, 2010

  • All Saints Church, Euclid Ave. Pasadena, CA, June 20, 2010

  • NAMI Temecula Valley, February 17, 2010

  • NAMI Pennsylvania at Radisson Penn Hotel, Camp Hill, PA, July 23, 2010

  • University of Wyoming, April 20, 2010

  • NAMI West LA, at the Adelman Mental Health Center, May 19, 2010

  • NAMI Pomona Valley, May 4, 2010

  • NAMI Riverside, May 3, 2010

  • NAMI Long Beach, Pacific Ave, Long Beach, CA, November 4, 2009

  • Berkeley Bipolar, Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, CA, July 9, 2009

  • NAMI PA of Cumberland and Perry Counties, Carlisle, PA, June 18, 2009

  • Wilshire Rotary Club, Ebert Club, Wilshire Boulevard, LA, CA, May 13, 2009

  • NAMI Glendale, Glendale, CA, May 5, 2009

  • NAMI San Gabriel Valley, Pacific Clinics, Pasadena, CA, April 8, 200

Architectural and Design Experience

Torti Gallas and Partners, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA, 2007-2009

  • Construction and Document Quality Control Administrator for military housing projects at Fort Irwin Army Base housing program, Barstow, CA,  Monterey and San Diego Naval Stations

Anil Verma and Associates, Oakland, CA, 2004-06  

  • Manager of Oakland, CA office, and Project Manager of three underground subway stations in San Jose, CA for BART and Silicon Valley Rapid Transit (SVRT)

Tetra Design for Kiewit Washington Parsons Design Build, Los Angeles, CA, 2001-2002.

  • Project Manager the Pasadena Gold Line Yard and Shops including: yard lighting, car wash, blowdown, guardhouse and a train repair building.

Nadel Architects, Santa Monica, CA, 1999 – 2000 

  • Construction Manager for the fast-tracked Scripps Mission Valley     Corporate Center

FR Harris Engineers, Long Beach, CA, 1998

  • Senior architect duties auditing project documentation for the Riverside County Transit Commission’s two pedestrian overcrossings at La Sierra and West Corona, Washington, DC’s WMATA Prince Georges Station; and writing a master plan for a decommissioned fuel tank farm at Mukilteo, Washington

Walt Disney Imagineering, Disneyland. CA1996 – 1998

  • Project Manager, Resident Engineer, and Architecture/Engineering Manager for Disneyland’s Back of House projects phases 1 and 2 including: a new warehouse, a transportation services center, an aviary, utility and data line upgrades, a rehearsal hall, an entertainment center, and a temporary tram route into the theme park, and a cast services building.

The Joint Venture Architects: SOM/Del Campo Maru, Michael Willis and Associates San Francisco, CA, 1995 - 96, Contract Administrator for the first three construction contracts: piles, pile caps, and early steel for the San Francisco International Airport Expansion

The Tanzmann Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1987-95

  • Project Manager and Lead Designer for projects including: Long Beach Blue Line Light Rail Stations, Los Angeles County MTA; Mills Filtration Plant, Southern California Metropolitan Water District; Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion and Remodel; Tujunga Well Field Pumping Station, Los Angeles Water and Power. The Los Angeles Mission project, with incorporated artwork by Pamela Burgess and others; The North Hollywood Subway Station for MTA was designed with input by artist, James Doolin and incorporated tile murals by Anne Marie Karlsen

Levin and Associates, Los Angeles, CA, Senior Designer, 1985-87

  • Senior Architect on the Million Dollar Theatre, Grand Central Market,          Homer Laughlin Building, and Bradbury Building rehabilitation projects

Bass and Yeager, Los Angeles, CA, 1984-85

  • Senior Designer on the Exxon Station Graphics Campaign and the SOHIO/BP Station design project

Frank O. Gehry and Associates. Los Angeles, CA, 1984, Senior Designer for  elements of a Malibu Mansion

Davis.Kyrk Architects, Los Angeles, CA 1982-85

  • Principal: Artist Housing project for Watts Community Housing

Walt Disney Company, Glendale, CA, 1981

  • Lighting Designer: Imagination Pavilion, EPCOT, Orlando, Florida

Glen Fleck Incorporated, Santa Monica, CA, 1979-1980,1983-85, and 1988

  • Lead Designer: The Road to Utopia for the Walt Disney Company, 1979

  • Lead Designer: The Media Exhibit for CBS, 1980

  • Lead Designer: The Mark Taper Hall of Economics and Finance Exhibit for IBM at the California Museum of Science and Industry 1983- 84

  • Lead Designer for “A Computer Garden” for IBM, 1985

  • Lead Designer for Hilton Gardens Theme Park for the Hilton Hotel, Las      Vegas, Nevada, 1988

U I G (Urban innovations Group), Los Angeles CA, 1979-80

  • Architect and Construction Documents Supervisor on UCLA Architectural School initiated projects and designer on the team for “A Grand Avenue” project for Bunker Hill, Los Angeles by the Maguire Partners that included     architects: Charles Moore, Frank Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Hugh Hardy, Barton Myers, Richardo Legorreta, Robert Kennard, and Lawrence Halprin, 1980

Bull, Field, Volkmann, and Stockwell Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1978-79

  • Designer: The Mid-mountain Restaurant, Beaver Creek, Colorado

The High Plains Drafter, Laramie, Wyoming (Carlton Davis Jr. Principal) 1976-78

  • Designer: The Gem City Bone and Joint Clinic

Booth and Nagle Architects, Chicago, Illinois 1973-75

  • Designer: Brunswick prototype bowling center, and Irv Kupcinet House

SOM, Chicago, Illinois, 1972

  • Designer: Mast for cable supported restaurant, Baxter Laboratories,            Deerfield, Illinois

Louis De Soissons Architects, London, UK, 1971

  • Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker, New York, New York, 1969

Licensed Architect: UK, Illinois (inactive), Wyoming (inactive), and California