Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
Primarily based in Los Angeles, Noah Davis created a body of figurative paintings that explore a range of Black life.
Motivated by the desire to ‘represent the people around me’, Davis painted figures diving into pools, sleeping, dancing, and looking at art in scenes that can be both realistic and dreamlike, joyful and melancholic. Davis drew from anonymous photography, personal archives, film, art history and his imagination to create a ravishing body of work. Often enigmatic, his paintings reveal a deep feeling for humanity and the emotional textures of the everyday.
In 2012, Davis co-founded The Underground Museum to give free access to world-class art for the people of Arlington Heights, LA. This exhibition presents over 50 of Davis’ works in painting, sculpture, curating and community-building from 2007 to his untimely death in 2015.
Lead image: Noah Davis, Pueblo del Rio, Arabesque 2014 ©The Estate of Noah Davis, courtesy The Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner
| Duration | 06 February 2025 - 11 May 2025 |
| Times | Tues/Wed 10am - 6pm Thu-Fri 10am-8pm (5-8pm Thurs pay what you can) Sat/Sun 10am - 6pm |
| Cost | £18 |
| Venue | Barbican Art Gallery |
| Address | Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS |
| Contact | / art@barbican.org.uk / www.barbican.org.uk |