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Noah Davis

Noah Davis

Fray-Smith, Wells
Nairne, Eleanor
Malavassi, Paola

Hardcover

Art HistoryAmerican Art - African American & BlackPainting Instruction

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 3791377744
ISBN13: 9783791377742
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: Mar 11 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 2.36
Height: 0.98 Width: 7.91 Depth: 9.82
Language: English
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, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles' flea markets, and his own imagination, 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 publication reveals how humanity, humor, imagination, and above all, people, were the epicenter of Davis's work.

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