Words – Index
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 Nicholas Alexander Gallery [NYC], was both an excellent idea and something of a missed opportunity. A selection of works...
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 theoretical physicist Hans Christian von BaeyerA reflection on the art of Ronald Davis The catalog for the exhibition at...
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 Ronnie Landfield The best abstract painting made in America during the past thirty-five years has been eclipsed. Great...
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 the exhibition "Selected Works From the Permanent Collection of The San José Museum of Art," in celebration of the...
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 exhibition Ronald Davis: Recent Abstractions, 2001 – 2002, published by School of Art and History, Denver University, 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 retrospective, Ronald Davis: Abstractions 1962 – 2002, exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio in...
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 twenty-nine large dodecagons made between January 1968 and October 1969 from the same mould, the same basic shape serving in...
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 Untitled.Art Fair exhibition of Ronald Davis works by Nyehaus, New York, during Miami Basel, December 2015...
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 Blue, 1966. 72 X 131 inches, Polyester Resin, Fiberglass, and Wood, Collection of Robert A. Rowan estateRon Davis is a...
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 regarded as entertaining a West Coast obsession for the simply seductive in surfaces (certain aspects of his work in the...
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 and anything that you think might help me.Thank you.Please e-mail me back,Rebecca I often receive requests such as...
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 that’ Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess...
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...
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...
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 October, 1969, Ronald Davis produced a remarkable series of twenty-nine paintings roughly twelve feet across in the shape...
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...