Noah Davis
This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community.
American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.’ Drawing on art history, personal archives and anonymous photography found in Los Angeles’ flea markets, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis’s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis’s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful volume reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis’s work.
American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.’ Drawing on art history, personal archives and anonymous photography found in Los Angeles’ flea markets, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis’s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis’s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful volume reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis’s work.
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NZ$ 110.00
Hardback
272
195 x 250 mm
6 March 2025
30 July 2025
9783791377742
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This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community.
American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.’ Drawing on art history, personal archives and anonymous photography found in Los Angeles’ flea markets, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis’s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis’s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful volume reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis’s work.
American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed 'painting does something to your soul that nothing else can. It is visceral and immediate.’ Drawing on art history, personal archives and anonymous photography found in Los Angeles’ flea markets, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis’s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis’s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. A vital resource for understanding the depth and significance of his practice, this beautiful volume reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis’s work.
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