David Hicks (USA, b.1977) is an artist who lives and works in his hometown of Visalia, California. His ceramics, sculpture and paintings draw inspiration from nature and agricultural products and examine the formal qualities of plants and organic forms common to the American landscape.  The shapes and themes he references in his practice are rooted in the fields and agricultural community surrounding his home. These organic and sometimes mechanical forms are often allegories for the human condition.  

He received a BFA in Ceramic Arts from California State University Long Beach (CSULB) in 2003, and an MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in New York in 2006. Hicks’ sculptural work can be found in public and private collections such as the Boise Museum of Art in Boise, ID, the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA, and the U.S. Department of State’s Art in Embassies Collection in Washington, DC.  

"The work [in "Seed"] is made up of many years’ worth of studio practice; formally, technically, and surface development. There is a really wonderful chronological history of my practice embodied in the work, from the inside out."