Noah Davis: The Missing Link
Roberts & Tilton, Culver City
February 23 - March 30, 2013
Roberts & Tilton presents The Missing Link, an exhibition of new works by NOAH DAVIS. In this new body of work, Noah Davis broadens, and in some cases breaks open completely the narrative of black youth culture in the inner cities, creating what he terms an “alternative canon” of unfamiliar instances, broken moments, derelict conversations and strange urban stories that have at their core an essential human longing, a nearly verifiable pulse, a “beat” as it were of a broader cosmopolitan cool.
Noah Davis’ paintings brim over with musical nuances and references, while others explore more concisely the complicated relationships between figures attempting to speak or share information. The colors become their own identifiable narrative trope, suggesting a civic bureaucracy, a mold that the figures attempt to break free from at every turn.
NOAH DAVIS is a participating artist in Fore, currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem through March 10, 2013. His work has previously been seen in 30 Americans at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA. Additional exhibitions include BAILA con Duende at the Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA and To Live and Paint in LA at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA. Noah Davis lives and works in Los Angeles.
Previous posts about Noah Davis work on Wanafoto:
Noah Davis: Nobody, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City (2008)
Noah Davis, Tilton Gallery, New York (2009)
Noah Davis: The Forgotten Works, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City (2010)
ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
www.robertsandtilton.com
