Lisa Corinne Davis
| Lisa Corinne Davis | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Website | Official website |
Lisa Corinne Davis is an American visual artist who is known for her intricate map-like paintings. Her paintings occupy a point somewhere between cartooning and cartography, abstraction and figuration. Her work is an exploration of racial, social, and psychological identity, and through the development of her painting lexicon she expresses her personal experience as an African-American woman in the 21st Century, and, by extension, that of an individual in modern society. The images are oddly familiar but essentially ephemeral, visually resonant but also deliberately enigmatic.[1]
She is currently a Professor of Painting and Combined Media at Hunter College.[2] Lisa also has taught at Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union School of Art, and Yale University.[3]
Davis lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, New York and is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY and The Mayor Gallery, London.[3]
Education
From 1976-78 she attended Cornell University.[4] In 1980, she attained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in New York City.[4] In 1993 she attained a Masters in Fine Arts from Hunter College.[4]
Select Exhibitions
- Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts (1996)[5]
- Book Art 12: Artist's Books from the Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts (2000)[6]
- Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College (2012)[7]
Awards
Davis has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Artist Biennial award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,[8] a National Endowment for the Arts' Visual Artist Fellowship and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.[9]
Notable collections
- Willfully Whimsical, 2006, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
References
- ↑ "Group Show: Lisa Corinne Davis" (exhibition website). Von Lintel Gallery., Retrieved 3 August 2015
- ↑ “Lisa Corinne Davis”, Hunter College, Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- 1 2 “Biography”, LisaCorinneDavis.com, Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- 1 2 3 “Artist bio”, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ "Artist in the Marketplace", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ "Past exhibitions", LissCorinnaDavis.com Tretrieed 25 March 2015.
- ↑ "Contemporary Cartographies", Lehman College Art Gallery, Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ “Lisa Corinne Davis”, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ Faculty profile page, Hunter College, Retrieved 3 August 2015.