Lisa Corinne Davis
Lisa Corinne Davis
Workspace Program Resident 1997
The reconfiguration of the world map in Lisa Corinne Davis’s glowing monochromatic work Untitled may suggest the medieval debate of the earth’s flatness and its centrality in the universe, but it achieves a cartography that departs from the literalness associated with Rand McNally. The brown huge of this particular work unifies the field to bring the continents together. Rather than try to draw the separate land forms of a contemporary map, the artist brings the focus back to Pangea, when the continents comprised one large mass with no clear boundaries. This work, along with the more recent installation of indistinguishable human noses made from cast paper titled David, Jonathan, Sally Reiner..., is a site fora discussion of difference and interwoven histories, exposing cracks in essentialist identity politics and melting-pot theories by quietly suggesting that we all come from the same place.
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About the Artist
Lisa Corinne Davis (b. Baltimore, MD) received her MFA from Hunter College in 1983 and her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1980. Davis lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson NY.
The paintings of Lisa Corinne Davis have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, and are included in many collections: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Their work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Art in America and ArtNews. She is the recipient of numerous awards including The Louis Comfort Tiffany grant, a National Endowment for the Arts' Visual Artist Fellowship, three New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships, and a MacDowell Artist’s fellowship.
Davis has taught art for the past twenty five years at Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union School of Art, Yale University, and is currently a Full Professor at Hunter College in New York. She is represented by Spanierman Modern, Miami, FL, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL, Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY and The Mayor Gallery, London. (Source: Artist’s Website)
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