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My friend, artist Bill Reynolds

My friend, artist Bill Reynolds

 Shazam! William Reynolds exhibition at Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM -February 10, 2024 - March 9, 2024 -Opening Reception: Saturday, February 10, 4-6 pm.  Bill Reynolds • For...

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Ron at David-Richard Gallery

Ron at David-Richard Gallery

October 17 - November 17, 2023 -DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY - NEW YORK, NY -  David Richard Gallery presented Ronald Davis, Paintings: 1960s through 2010, a survey presentation of...

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Coming Full Circle

Coming Full Circle

Number 34:  “Cone Down,” 2022-23.  Acrylic on 20-inch diameter canvas, mounted on metal and wood backing, installed as a diamond.     Last fall after making 34...

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The Lack Of Power

The Lack Of Power

Yesterday we had an 18-hour internet blackout, including 4 or 5 hours of e-power outage. I was reminded that the lack of power is my most precious asset.  To wit: The...

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A Tenacious Yellow Flower

A Tenacious Yellow Flower

Join me in celebrating the 30th anniversary of my cheerful, bee-attracting yellow columbine. In 1993 a friend who was working on building my place brought it over with some...

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“Pixeldust”

“Pixeldust”

By Ronald and Barbara Davis /  Art and Technology:  Getting “Pixeldust” From There to Here “Pixeldust” is my conceptual term for many recent pictures, which I create on...

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Staurolite Power

Staurolite Power

I love staurolite crystals. They are rare, surprising geometric objects found in the dirt and rock of exposed strata in a few obscure places around the world, like Taos, New...

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David-Richard Gallery, New York

David-Richard Gallery, New York

December 1 - 30, 2022 - DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY - NEW YORK, NY -  David Richard Gallery presented Optical, Shaped and Color Abstractions, Paintings: 1963 – 1965 by Ronald...

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Dave Hickey: RIP

Dave Hickey: RIP

I was sad to hear of writer, art critic, and scholar of culture Dave Hickey's passing last month. We met in the early 2000s in Taos at Penny and Gregg Hawks' home during one...

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A Conceptual Art Happening

A Conceptual Art Happening

At my opening at 203 Fine Art in Taos on September 25, 2021, I met another local artist, Helen Gene Nichols, for the first time. Helen's kaleidoscopic, tessellated...

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Studio Shoot with Lee Clockman

Studio Shoot with Lee Clockman

Lee Clockman, Taos area photographer, came out to my studio several years ago and did a wonderful set of photos of the studio and of me. At some point over time, I somehow...

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Mr. Peanut’s Demise

Mr. Peanut’s Demise

Mr. Peanut died in January 2021. At the time, I was shocked and saddened. Besides that, I was devastated. When I was eight years old, I had a Mr. Peanut bank. It stood about...

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Nicholas Wilder On Being A Dealer

Nicholas Wilder On Being A Dealer

ARTWEEK, August 24, 1974 •by Martha Alf •  Referring to himself as an "art peddler," dynamic, Los Angeles-based art dealer Nicholas Wilder spoke in May (1974) to an informal...

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Early Studio Days

Early Studio Days

Featured photo: Gail Chadell Nanao. Photo of Roller Rink upstairs: Unknown. In the early 1960s, I lived communally with a rag-tag bunch of artists, including a couple of San...

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Wallpaper Statement Part 1

Wallpaper Statement Part 1

I woke up one morning in 2002 with a ripe stream-of-consciousness Artist Statement burning in my brain, and it wanted to come out – right now. My wife sat down with me and...

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Wallpaper Statement Part 2

Wallpaper Statement Part 2

Continued from Part 1: The first painting I painted, a couple of years before I had thoughts of becoming a real painter, was a bleeding half of a cantaloupe on a...

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Wallpaper Statement Part 3

Wallpaper Statement Part 3

Continued from Part 2: In painting, I had discovered a "profession" that suited my dependencies. That is to say, if I became an artist, it was partly because it fitted my...

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Wallpaper Statement Part 4

Wallpaper Statement Part 4

Continued from Part 3: I drove east in 1962, having been invited to the Norfolk Yale School of Music and Art as a grantee. The crits I got there were incomprehensible. After...

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Wallpaper Statement Part 5

Wallpaper Statement Part 5

Continued from Part 4: It was never my intention to deconstruct art as I found it. I strove to expand the boundaries of painting, not the boundaries of what was then...

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Ronald Davis at San Francisco Art Institute

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