Artist, geometrician, abstract illusionist
RONALD DAVIS
Artist, Geometrician,
Abstract Illusionist
From the catalog accompanying the Untitled. Art Fair exhibition of Ronald Davis works at Miami Basel, December, 2015:
“The figure-ground relationship between the painting and the wall was intensified when these paintings began to skew off the rectangle. It was intensified further with Davis’ illusionary excavations into the center of the painting and into the ground supplied by the wall…This fiat allowed art to conquer the room…”
– Dave Hickey
2011 video interview at the studio for The Getty Center’s 2011 initiative and exhibition, Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA, 1945-1980
“My work is comprised of aggressively decorative, meaningless, unidentified floating objects that pretend to be rational. Illusion is my vehicle. Opticality is paramount.… Even though I, like DuChamp, reintroduced perspective illusion – the illusions of objects into my paintings – the objects themselves remain abstract and non-referential.”
– Ronald Davis
