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Review: 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 very eccentric. He doesn't talk to writers. Email him," wrote art critic Dave Hickey in his 2015 essay, Ronald Davis Is Not Doing What You're...
Review: 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 expressionism, cubism, or color-field painting — artists are presented by one persistent problem, and American painter Ronald Davis explains it in...
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 gathering, composed mostly of students, but also attracting some other art world enthusiasts,...
The 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 and Sixth Avenues. The original headquarters in midtown Manhattan has changed, with an impressive new building designed by architect Yoshio...
“The Essence Of Abstraction” by Ronnie Landfield
This essay was originally printed in the catalog that accompanied the forty year retrospective, "Ronald Davis: Abstractions 1962 – 2002," exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio in October 2002. Ronnie Landfield • The best abstract...
A 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 Clement Greenberg is from “Jackson Pollock: An American Saga” by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith (Clarkson N. Potter). “To be an artist...
“3D/CG” at Eight Modern, Santa Fe, 2007
Richard Tobin, THE Magazine, April 01, 2008 • 3D/CG, a solo exhibition at Eight Modern Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM • Nov 16 – Dec 31, 2007 • VIEW and download catalog PDF • Opticality is paramount: students of photography no doubt can point to a particular moment in the...
Ronald Davis: Objects and Illusions
By Barbara Rose, 1988 – Between January, 1968 and October, 1969, Ronald Davis produced a remarkable series of twenty-nine paintings roughly twelve feet across in the shape of dodecagons. These paintings represent a unique synthesis of the diverse concerns of the...
Taos News Interview re: Hulse-Warman Gallery exhibition, Sept 2013
Jun 23, 2016 email interview by writer John P. Miller of The Taos News Tempo, on the occasion of Ronald Davis' late summer 2016 exhibition at Hulse/Warman Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico. Hi Ron, JPM: Let's start with title for the exhibition: "Ronald Davis: Still Alive."...
In the middle of “Left Of Center” – The Anderson Collection at Stanford University
Tuesday March 31, 2020 • In the middle of Left of Center: Student Curators Reflect on Their Experience Reinstalling the Anderson’s Permanent Collection – Left of Center brought together the diverse interests of seven graduate-student curators who together worked to...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation: “Inside Light”
Inside Light, 1969 –Dodecagon Series. Fiberglass and polyester resin. Ronald Davis was one of the most significant artists to extend the accomplishments of Abstract Expressionism. His geometrically shaped paintings of the late 1960s and early ‘70s utilized new...
Ronald Davis at Helman Gallery, Missouri
Paintings By Ron Davis On Display This Week – By MARY KING • 1972 • Like love, the paintings of Ron Davis must be experienced to know what all the shouting’s about. There has been shouting, and from the look of his show, at the Helman Gallery through Friday, it is...