Incubus’ Choice: Close-up on Booty Babe Art (Spencer Davis)

What message(s) do you want to express through your work?

In a society that is obsessed with a singular image of beauty I would like to point out that beauty comes in a variety of different shapes, sizes and colors. I wish more women to feel beautiful and enjoy their bodies.

Which artists inspire you? Who are your masters?

Coop, Frank Frazetta, Robert Williams, Rockin’ Jellybean, Glenn Barr, Frank Kozik and Takashi Murakami to name a few. Masters to me are Rodin and Gaston Lachaise (Da Vinci and Michelangelo etc. go without saying).

What have you gained by being on the internet?

The ability to exist as an artist, rather than a mere widget maker at a multi-national corporate factory and daily connection with individuals in countries I had never before even heard of.

Did the internet enable you to meet new models, to find new exhibit places?

Indeed I have made some great friendships with some models and other artists. New exhibit places? Not so much in the physical sense but definitely in the virtual / web sense.

Has your work ever been censored? If so, how did you deal with it?

My work certainly has been censored. I have played the little game of applying post-it note squares. And I’m sure I have lost a lot of business because my subject matter contains nudity. Some ways around it are creativity in costume. But ultimately I have had to just avoid the closed-minded in some incidences. They need to be protected after all.

What projects mean a lot to you at the moment?

I will be introducing my art in the form of soft vinyl dolls sometimes within the next year. A Japanese company has negotiated licensing rights to reproduce my character creations and will hopefully do a better job than I have at distributing them. I am also working on various poses and body types in addition to the initial sculpt. More personally though, before I die, I WILL create a life-size version of the original vision of the “Booty Babe”.

Could you tell us a few words about the place you live/work in?

Actually this question answers the former. For many years (10) I was frustrated by the limitations of living and working in a small apartment. In 2004 my wife and I discovered that Las Vegas was much cheaper than Los Angeles. So we moved here (to Vegas) where I will finally be able to construct the work space of my dreams (Vegas is alright in case you’re wondering). There is an honest-to-goodness “art scene” here that is evolving with promise. And we are otherwise pretty removed from The Strip. When you spend 95% of your time at home it’s pretty much like living anywhere else. So “the dream workspace” is the project that means the most to me at the moment. Until it is completed I perform most of my work at a workbench in my garage… and on the dining room table… and over the kitchen sink.

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