LISA CORINNE DAVIS: YOU ARE HERE?

"The paintings share a common language of tessellation, but each is discreet in its vivid treatment of color, geometry, and asymmetry. Davis, who works on multiple canvases at the same time, compares the process with becoming acquainted with people; she initiates a type of dialogic metamorphosis from idea to materiality while mediating the works’ different ‘personalities.’"

- Anita N. Bateman, Ph.D. in "Subjective Truths"

"In Tricky Track (2023), a serpentine form, similar to the curvilinear elements elsewhere, emerges from the pictorial plane. The modular units of the background are in contrast to the interrupted spiral that seems to reconstitute itself and, upon closer inspection, is riddled with breaks. Here, ‘tricky’ perhaps connotes the illusion of one continuous line that is, in fact, interrupted; our eyes, quick to absorb  information, betray our subconscious mind, which is slow on the uptake, pitting our senses against each other. It is not surprising that the allusion to trickery, combined with a verdant, twisting configuration, subtly recalls the Edenic tale of the earliest deception—the trickster tempting Adam and Eve off the right path/track."

- Anita N. Bateman, Ph.D. in "Subjective Truths"

Lisa Corinne Davis (b. 1958, Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, NY and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York, NY. Since 1993, Davis has held teaching positions at some of the most prestigious art schools in the United States, and currently serves as the Co-MFA Director at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts.

She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Esther Massry Gallery, College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; Farmer Family Gallery, Ohio State University, Lima, OH; Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY; and June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY.

Davis’ work has been included in group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY; Flint Institute of The Arts, Flint, MI; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Schloss Plüschow, Uphal, Germany; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Beinecke Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA; U.S. Embassy, Lomé, Togo; U.S. Embassy, Yaounde, Cameroon; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.

The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.