Noah Davis

This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist, Noah Davis, whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community.

Drawing on art history, personal archives, anonymous photography found in Los Angeles’ flea markets, and his own imagination, he compiled a ravishing body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life. Alongside his celebrated paintings, Davis made drawings, collages, and sculptures, and co-founded the Underground Museum.

This elegantly designed volume documents the span of Davis’s career and attends to his commitment to representation in the art world and community engagement at the Underground Museum. Alongside new scholarship from writers, artists, and musicians like Tina M. Campt, Claudia Rankine, Marlene Dumas, and Jason Moran, this catalog features high-quality reproductions of Davis’s more widely-known works as well as previously unseen archival material. 

Editor(s): Paola Malavassi, Eleanor Nairne, and Wells Fray-Smith

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Hardcover, Prestel, 2025
272 p, 7.94 × 9.88 in.