Noah Davis: The Missing Link, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City

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

Noah Davis: The Forgotten Works, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City

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

Noah Davis: Nobody, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City

Noah Davis: Nobody 

Roberts & Tilton, Culver City 

October 11 – November 8, 2008 

For his first solo exhibition, Nobody, NOAH DAVIS has created a series of highly political abstract paintings. Noah Davis selects purple as the sole color on each of the three large-scale canvases. While the current socio-political atmosphere is prevalent in this Election year, the works remain fundamentally formal in appearance. Davis remarks on basic principles of composition and color theory, bringing to mind the early abstractions of Arthur Dove, the Minimalist drawings of Richard Serra and Paul Rand in his approach to Corporate graphic design. Titled, 2004, the series of new work is intended as fashionable paintings for 2008. These paintings are intended as historical documentation; each painting's seemingly compositionally arbitrary form is in fact the shape of a United States "swing state" in the 2004 presidential election. These paintings are as much about painting as they are about the politics of painting; Noah Davis presents documentation paintings that exhibit a misunderstanding of politics, and the politics of art.

ROBERTS & TILTON

5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232

www.robertsandtilton.com