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LISA CORINNE DAVIS: Syllogism

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4 SEPTEMBER - 25 OCTOBER 2025
  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, “Lisa Corinne Davis: Syllogism,” 4 September - 25 October 2025.

  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Categorical Contrivance, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    70 x 55 inches
    177.8 x 139.7 cm
  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Convulsive Calculation, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    72 x 100 inches
    182.9 x 254 cm
  • "Lisa Corinne Davis does not allow for any easy readings of her paintings. Her works offer instead productive tensions that refuse resolution: crisscrossing lines that vacillate between the geometric and the organic; luminous colors that alternately shout and whisper; rhythmic compositions suddenly interrupted; biomorphic forms that defy containment. There is a sense of familiarity unsettled, where the viewer’s expectations and assumptions about what the works might be are upended upon closer examination."

    - Connie Choi in "Fraught Lines"

  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Dogmatic Deceit, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    80 x 60 inches
    203.2 x 152.4 cm
  • Fleeting Form (detail), 2025.
  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Fleeting Form, 2025
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    80 x 60 inches
    203.2 x 152.4 cm
  • 'Davis describes her colors as 'muscular,' which one can sense in these paintings . . . The 'muscular' aspect of...
    LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Illusive Location, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    80 x 60 inches
    203.2 x 152.4 cm
    "Davis describes her colors as 'muscular,' which one can sense in these paintings . . . The 'muscular' aspect of the artist’s color choices has resonance with the way her paintings come to life. Davis has articulated that she feels she has to wrestle with her works until they resolve themselves. The process can take weeks or even months. She works through each stage of their composition, looking and looking again, contemplating and shifting ideas as the paintings take shape. There is, therefore, a physicality to their creation that suggests the paintings, perhaps as much as the society they embody, do not come easily."

    - Connie Choi in "Fraught Lines"

  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Notional Adage, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    90 x 65 inches
    228.6 x 165.1 cm
  • Lisa Corinne Davis in her studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2025.
  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Temporal Terrain, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    80 x 60 inches
    203.2 x 152.4 cm
  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Transient Reticulation, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    80 x 60 inches
    203.2 x 152.4 cm
  • "Davis remains true to a core set of principles that drive her painting practice. She follows a both/and philosophy, which rejects a binary way of thinking and assumes that multiple elements can be correct at the same time. Her works are several things at once, reflecting the realities of lived experiences where truth is often found lodged among many divisive voices. Davis works through these competing forms, grappling with their presence until her compositions arrive at a resolution that honors them all."

    - Connie Choi in "Fraught Lines"

  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS
    Volatile Precept, 2025
    Oil on canvas
    70 x 55 inches
    177.8 x 139.7 cm
  • Volatile Precept (detail), 2025.
  • LISA CORINNE DAVIS (b. 1958 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and...
    Lisa Corinne Davis in her studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2025.

    LISA CORINNE DAVIS (b. 1958 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York, NY.

     

    Since 1993, Davis has held teaching positions at some of the top art schools in the United States; she is currently Professor of Art at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts, and a 2024 fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts. Additionally in 2024, Davis was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design Program to create several permanent mosaic murals for the 68th Street-Hunter College subway station, which is a site of particular resonance for Davis, having taught at Hunter College for over two decades.

     

    She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; Farmer Family Gallery, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH; Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; Longwood Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, among others. Davis’ work has been included in institutional group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, NY; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI; 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 for Graphic Arts, 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 African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA; U.S. Embassy, Lomé, Togo; U.S. Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.

     

    The artist lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.

    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Categorical Contrivance, 2025 Oil on canvas 70 x 55 inches 177.8 x 139.7 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Categorical Contrivance, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      70 x 55 inches
      177.8 x 139.7 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Convulsive Calculation, 2025 Oil on canvas 72 x 100 inches 182.9 x 254 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Convulsive Calculation, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      72 x 100 inches
      182.9 x 254 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Dogmatic Deceit, 2025 Oil on canvas 80 x 60 inches 203.2 x 152.4 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Dogmatic Deceit, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      80 x 60 inches
      203.2 x 152.4 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Fleeting Form, 2025 Acrylic and oil on canvas 80 x 60 inches 203.2 x 152.4 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Fleeting Form, 2025
      Acrylic and oil on canvas
      80 x 60 inches
      203.2 x 152.4 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Illusive Location, 2025 Oil on canvas 80 x 60 inches 203.2 x 152.4 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Illusive Location, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      80 x 60 inches
      203.2 x 152.4 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Notional Adage, 2025 Oil on canvas 90 x 65 inches 228.6 x 165.1 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Notional Adage, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      90 x 65 inches
      228.6 x 165.1 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Temporal Terrain, 2025 Oil on canvas 80 x 60 inches 203.2 x 152.4 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Temporal Terrain, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      80 x 60 inches
      203.2 x 152.4 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Transient Reticulation, 2025 Oil on canvas 80 x 60 inches 203.2 x 152.4 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Transient Reticulation, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      80 x 60 inches
      203.2 x 152.4 cm
    • LISA CORINNE DAVIS Volatile Precept, 2025 Oil on canvas 70 x 55 inches 177.8 x 139.7 cm
      LISA CORINNE DAVIS
      Volatile Precept, 2025
      Oil on canvas
      70 x 55 inches
      177.8 x 139.7 cm
  • All Artwork Photography by JSP Art Photography.

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