95. NOAH DAVIS
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Noah Davis
American Sterile, 2008 Oil on canvas 52 x 60 in. (132.1 x 152.4 cm) |
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Basic Training 1, 2008
Oil and acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm) |
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| Noah Davis, “Pueblo del Rio: Conductor” (2014), oil on canvas, 175,26 x 193,04 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In
1983, in Seattle (WA, USA)
He died in 2015, USA
Studies:
2001-2004 The Cooper Union School of Art, New
York, NY
Themes and style:
Davis is
best known for his paintings of African Americans that have a dreamy, unreal
quality to them, despite their muted color palettes and touches of realist
detail. Although some of the figures that Davis painted were black, he didn’t
consider his works political
Techniques:
His work is develop in paintings.
Solo Exhibitions
2010
“The Forgotten Works” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
“More
Paintings” Galerie Annarumma 404, Napoli, Italy
2009
Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2008
“Nobody” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 “30
Americans” Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010
“Wild Thing” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
“Stranger
Than Fiction” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2009
“High Fidelity” Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2008 “30
Americans” Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
“Macrocosm”
Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
“The
World’s Smallest Art Fair” Anna Kustera, New York, NY
“Face
Forward” LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007
“Bliss” Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
PUBL IC COLLECTIONS
The
Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
The
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
In his own words:
“If I’m making any statement,” he told Dazed in 2010,
“it’s to just show black people in normal scenarios, where drugs and guns are
nothing to do with it.” Davis instead chose to describe his works as “instances
where black aesthetics and modernist aesthetics collide.”
Representative
Galleries:
James Harris
Papillon
For
more Information:
http://www.papillionart.com/noah-davis/
https://rfc.museum/30a-noah-davis