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 MORESeven Painters Review, 1996
Karen Wilkin: At The Galleries Published in: Partisan Review | 1, 1996, Volume LXIII, Number 1 Seven Painters, an ambitious...
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A reflection on the art of Ronald Davis The catalog for the exhibition at the New York Academy of Sciences, September...
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Ronald Davis: The Essence Of Abstraction From the catalog accompanying Ron Davis’s retrospective at The Butler Institute...
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Selected Works From the Permanent Collection of the San José Museum of Art Including Davis’s Seven Part Arch, 1977 From...
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Ronald Davis: Recent Abstractions, 2001 – 2002 at Denver University This statement was originally printed in the...
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A Painting’s Just Gotta Look Better Than the Wallpaper This statement by Ronald Davis was originally printed in the catalog...
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Vector, 1968, 60 1/2 x 132 inches (shaped), Moulded Polyester Resin and Fiberglass, Dodecagon Series (PTG 0061). This is one of...
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Ronald Davis Is Not Doing What You’re Seeing The content of this essay by Dave Hickey is excerpted with permission from...
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Ronald Davis: Surface And Illusion by Michael Fried Originally published in ARTFORUM, Volume V. No. 8, April 1967...
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New Paintings By Ron Davis: The Cutout Series ArtForum, March, 1971 • VOL. 9, NO. 7 CUTOUT SERIES By John Elderfield RON...
READ MOREWhat Does “Abstract” Mean?
I am doing a project in graphics about abstract art and i was wondering if you could send me some information about abstract...
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Published February 21, 2024 – Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis....
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by Tamra Testerman, Taos News Tempo, Visual Art section, Sept. 23, 2021 – Taos artist Ronald Davis is “mercurial. He is...
READ MOREReview: The basics of complexity: Ronald Davis on abstraction and perception
Michael Abatemarco – Santa Fe New Mexican, Sep 24, 2021 – Regardless of the form a painting takes — whether it’s abstract...
READ MORENicholas Wilder On Being A Dealer
ARTWEEK, August 24, 1974 •by Martha Alf • Referring to himself as an “art peddler,” dynamic, Los Angeles-based art...
READ MOREThe New Museum of Modern Art… An Artist’s View
by Ronnie Landfield • 2005 • The Cause: The Museum of Modern Art has reopened for business on 53rd Street between Fifth...
READ MOREA Smear From the Art Critic, Clement Greenberg
Is it a paradox for a critic to love art and hate artists, or is it merely a commentary on modern esthetics? This portrait of...
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Richard Tobin, THE Magazine, April 01, 2008 • 3D/CG, a solo exhibition at Eight Modern Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM • Nov 16 – Dec 31,...
READ MOREBarbara Rose Essay: Ronald Davis: Objects and Illusions
The DODECAGONS Catalog essay accompanying the 1988 exhibition of Dodecagons at BlumHelman Gallery, Los Angeles. By Barbara Rose,...
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