After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett & Annalee Newman Foundation
THE JEWISH MUSEUM, New York City
Ronald Davis – Early Optical, Shaped and Color Abstractions: Paintings 1963 – 1965
DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY, New York City
Ronald Davis at
THE JEWISH MUSEUM, New York
After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from The Barnett & Annalee Newman Foundation
Ronald Davis at
DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY, New York
“Early Optical, Shaped and Color Abstractions: Paintings 1963 – 1965”
Ronald Davis at
THE JEWISH MUSEUM:
After “The Wild”: Contemporary Art from
The Barnett & Annalee Newman Foundation
New York City
Ronald Davis at DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY
New York City
“Early Optical, Shaped and Color Abstractions:
Paintings 1963 – 1965″
Artist, geometrician, abstract illusionist
Ron Davis working at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California ca. 1986
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
