Lisa Corinne Davis: Capricious Calculations
Friday, 10/19/2018 – 06:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Spanierman Modern
151 NE 41 Street Suite p133,
Miami, Florida 33137
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Spanierman Modern presents Capricious Calculations, an exhibition by Brooklyn painter and educator Lisa Corinne Davis. In this body of work, the artist transforms the familiar, and subverts meanings and connotations through experimentation with objective and subjective formal languages. The show is also the debut exhibition at Spanierman Modern’s new Midtown Miami space. Capricious Calculations will run from October 19 through November 13, 2018 at Spanierman Modern (located at 151 NE 41 Street in Midtown, suite p133). An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 19, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday – Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., and Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Through the works in Capricious Calculations, Davis continues her exploration into the use of color, geometry, and subjective and objective forms to suggest the complex relationship between race, culture, and history. Davis’ manner of painting is located between abstraction and figuration – a semiotic position devised to encourage a viewer to relocate and reconsider their own proximity to form and the personal experiences and ideas that affect their ability to read an image. At the heart of Davis’ practice is the notion that the viewer must decide whether the information in each painting should be received as presented or dynamically interpreted according to their individual lens. If the latter choice is made the viewer must also contend with the fact that all memory and relational understandings brought to the work are subjective, and thus, renders any readings hinging upon them as fluid and without static definitions with the passage of time.
Lisa Corinne Davis’ oeuvre shuttles between allowing the paint to fulfill its mark-making function on the canvas, while referencing the physical world and cheeky nods to modern ubiquity and dependence on technology. The paintings are a playful investigation that culls different formal languages into one two-dimensional plane where both the paints and the compositions themselves misbehave, stretch, and transform to create a new kind of unified field. For the artist, both visual and written languages serve as malleable mediums for experimentation. With titles like Analytical Anarchism, Quixotic Quantum, etc. the artist draws together disparate ideological references to further engage viewers whilst simultaneously allowing the paint to speak for itself.
