Lisa Corinne Davis: Tangible Tale

The Mayor Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Lisa Corinne Davis (Baltimore, USA), a Brooklyn-based abstract painter whose vibrant and intriguing work enigmatically resembles geographical maps, aerial views, circuit boards and coding systems.

For the past 25 years, Davis has drawn on her singular lived experience as a Black woman who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Baltimore while attending a Quaker private school to explore the complex relationship between race, culture, and systems of societal classification as a way of questioning the ingrained human impulse to categorise people.

In her work, marks and patterns in natural, warm hues that allude to the body and organic matter collide with vivid artificial colours and neon, while warped geometric grids reminiscent of genetic sequencing diagrams are layered with organic, rhythmic marks which shift and undulate to disarming and hypnotic effect.