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Sourcing imagery from found photographs, art history and imagination, Noah Davis both references and constructs his own personal history through psychologically driven paintings. Davis creates contemporary, pertinent imagery that combines the invented and the factual. This simultaneous tension exists throughout Davis’ work: nostalgic and saccharine, unsettling and grotesque. Davis’ painted subjects are deeply psychologically focused, but they also act as a discreet punch line. The paintings stand in as narrator for forgotten or suppressed moments in American history as told through a modern lens. They quietly remark on the banality and sadness of daily life; they point to tired stereotypes and strained classifications. All at once, Davis is a historian, a surrealist, a storyteller, a comic and a sentimentalist.

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
In Watermelon Sugar, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
What We Did to the Elephant in the Room, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
The Summer House, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
Narrator and Pauline, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
Piss Ant, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
All Those Lost to Oh Well, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
 

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
The Narrator, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
1984, 2009
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
In Watermelon Sugar, 2010
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
Inboil, 2010
Oil on canvas
57 x 40 in (144.8 x 101.6 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
What They Did to Themselves, 2010
Oil on canvas
77 x 94 in (195.6 x 238.8 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
The Forgotten Night, 2010
Oil on canvas
77 x 94 in (195.6 x 238.8 cm)

Noah Davis

Noah Davis
Prey, 2010
Oil on canvas with silver leaf
60 x 84 in (152.4 x 213.4 cm)