Noah Davis: The Forgotten Works
Roberts & Tilton, Culver City
January 16 - February 20, 2010
Roberts & Tilton presents an exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles based artist NOAH DAVIS. Sourcing imagery from found photographs, art history and imagination, Noah Davis both references and constructs his own personal history through psychologically driven paintings.
Noah Davis creates contemporary, pertinent imagery that combines the invented and the factual. This simultaneous tension exists throughout Noah Davis’ work: nostalgic and saccharine, unsettling and grotesque. Noah Davis’ painted subjects are deeply psychologically focused, but they also act as a discreet punch line. The paintings stand in as narrator for forgotten or suppressed moments in American history as told through a modern lens. They quietly remark on the banality and sadness of daily life; they point to tired stereotypes and strained classifications. All at once, Noah Davis is a historian, a surrealist, a storyteller, a comic and a sentimentalist.
NOAH DAVIS attended The Cooper Union School of Art in New York and in 2008 participated in the “30 Americans” show at the Rubell Family Collection (which travels to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC in the fall of 2010.) Noah Davis’ work is included in the permanent collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina.
Previous post about Noah Davis work on Wanafoto :
Noah Davis: Nobody, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City (2008)
Noah Davis, Tilton Gallery, New York (2009)
ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
www.robertsandtilton.com
