Ron’s Blog

A short anecdote + unavoidable name-drop:  In the late 1970s I found myself standing with Richard Diebenkorn at an exhibition at the LA County...

When I began this last series of "Plumb Bob / Polar Series" tondo paintings, my first goal was to "find the center."  Soon, I saw that the circles...

My heart goes out to the victims of the California wildfires, the worst in recorded history. Gratitude to the hotshots, pilots, and all those...

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

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...

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...

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

Reach for essence of thought, and the mark follows.  With Philip Guston in art world news recently, apparently because of the controversial...

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....

This essay was originally printed in the catalog that accompanied the forty year retrospective, "Ronald Davis: Abstractions 1962 – 2002," exhibited...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you want to be an artist and you’re in midnight quarantine, you are required to become acquainted with "Gulley Jimson" and British painter John...

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Tuesday March 31, 2020 – Left of Center: Student Curators Reflect On Their Experience Reinstalling the...