The Words
OBITUARY
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 19, 2025 at home in...
Seven Painters Review, 1996
Karen Wilkin: At The Galleries Published in: Partisan Review | 1, 1996, Volume LXIII, Number 1 Seven Painters, an ambitious group exhibition at...
FINITY-INFINITY
A reflection on the art of Ronald Davis The catalog for the exhibition at the New York Academy of Sciences, September 23-December 5, 1996. Essay by...
Ronnie Landfield Essay
Ronald Davis: The Essence Of Abstraction From the catalog accompanying Ron Davis's retrospective at The Butler Institute Of American Art, 2002by...
Essay on “Seven Part Arch”
Selected Works From the Permanent Collection of the San José Museum of Art Including Davis's Seven Part Arch, 1977 From the catalog accompanying...
When the illusion is lost, the art is hard to find…
Ronald Davis: Recent Abstractions, 2001 – 2002 at Denver University This statement was originally printed in the "one-sheet" accompanying the...
“The Wallpaper Statement”
A Painting’s Just Gotta Look Better Than the Wallpaper This statement by Ronald Davis was originally printed in the catalog accompanying his...
Path To The Dodecagons
Vector, 1968, 60 1/2 x 132 inches (shaped), Moulded Polyester Resin and Fiberglass, Dodecagon Series (PTG 0061). This is one of a series of...
Essay by Dave Hickey
Ronald Davis Is Not Doing What You're Seeing The content of this essay by Dave Hickey is excerpted with permission from the catalog accompanying the...
Review by Michael Fried
Ronald Davis: Surface And Illusion by Michael Fried Originally published in ARTFORUM, Volume V. No. 8, April 1967ARTFORUM cover: Six-Ninths...
Review by John Elderfield
New Paintings By Ron Davis: The Cutout Series ArtForum, March, 1971 • VOL. 9, NO. 7By John Elderfield RON DAVIS, NOW THAT he can in no way be...
What 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 art, the history of it...
Studio International interview
Published February 21, 2024 – Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
“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...
Barbara Rose Essay: Ronald Davis: Objects and Illusions
Catalog essay accompanying the 1988 exhibition of Dodecagons at BlumHelman Gallery, Los Angeles. By Barbara Rose, 1988 Between January, 1968 and...
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...
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...
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...
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...