RONALD W. DAVIS June 29, 1937 ~ November 19, 2025 I am but a box in time and space. Ronald Wendel Davis passed away on November...
READ MOREAh, art openings
A short anecdote + unavoidable name-drop: In the late 1970s I found myself standing with Richard Diebenkorn at an exhibition at...
READ MOREThoughts on Mondrian
When I began this last series of “Plumb Bob / Polar Series” tondo paintings, my first goal was to “find the...
READ MOREThe Fires
My heart goes out to the victims of the California wildfires, the worst in recorded history. Gratitude to the hotshots, pilots,...
READ MOREMy friend, artist Bill Reynolds
Shazam! William Reynolds exhibition at Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM -February 10, 2024 – March 9, 2024 – Opening...
READ MORERon at David-Richard Gallery
October 17 – November 17, 2023 -DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY – NEW YORK, NY – David Richard Gallery presented Ronald...
READ MOREComing Full Circle
Last fall after making 34 paintings I fell very ill, and was unable to get a correct diagnosis until February 2023. They finally...
READ MOREThe 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...
READ MOREA 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...
READ MORE“Pixeldust”
By Ronald and Barbara Davis / Art and Technology: Getting “Pixeldust” From There to Here “Pixeldust” is my conceptual term for...
READ MOREPhilip Guston – Stand Flat-Footed
Reach for essence of thought, and the mark follows. With Philip Guston in art world news recently, apparently because of the...
READ MOREStaurolite Power
I love staurolite crystals. They are rare, surprising geometric objects found in the dirt and rock of exposed strata in a few...
READ MOREBarnett Newman at The Russian Tea Room
During a trip to Washington, DC in 1967 to attend the Barbara Rose-curated “A New Aesthetic” show at the Washington Gallery of...
READ MOREDavid-Richard Gallery, New York
December 1 – 30, 2022 – DAVID-RICHARD GALLERY – NEW YORK, NY – David Richard Gallery presented Optical,...
READ MORERonald Davis at The Jewish Museum
March 24-October 1, 2023 -The Jewish Museum – Two-Thirds Yellow, from Ronald Davis’s 1960s Slab Series of shaped,...
READ MOREDave 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...
READ MOREA 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....
READ MOREReview: The Wheel is Coming Round
by Tamra Testerman, Taos News Tempo, Visual Art section, Sept. 23, 2021 – Taos artist Ronald Davis is “mercurial. He is...
READ MOREStudio 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...
READ MOREThe “Be Safe! Shrine” and The Cycle of Life
A young man named Jeff came here a decade or so ago to pick up some art, and let it be known he needed some work. It was good...
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