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13/2/2004

Jay Davis

Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo exhibition by Jay Davis. The artist will present six new acrylic on vinyl paintings, each containing many layers of acrylic paint on large panels of stretched vinyl. The paintings slick and reflective surfaces depict a combination of hard-edge abstraction and illustrative imagery, producing psychedelic tableaus.

The plastic surfaces of the images lend a synthetic element to these futuristic landscapes. Davis creates imaginary, otherworldly scenes that look like they could belong to a parallel universe. The complex compositions juxtapose the organic with the inorganic, the secular with the spiritual, and design with representation. These paintings are hybrid productions including aspects of landscape with geological formations and geometric abstraction, along with glimpses of portraiture and figures. Filtered through an artificial perspective, they are the product of a video game imagination.

Jay Davis work is at once playful, contemplative, overloaded, and arcane. He coyly titles his paintings after banal phrases such as Turn off the lights, it's too bright in order to undermine their sublime quality.

Jay Davis lives and works in New York. He recently had a solo exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery, New York and was included in the Prague Biennial I: Peripheries Become the Center, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic.

Opening Reception: February 14, 5 - 7 pm

Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6 pm; Saturday 11am - 5:30 pm

Image:
Jay Davis, Untitled (2 1/2 octagons, red figure)
2001, acrylic on vinyl, 34 x 44"

For more information, please contact Melissa Pellico, Assistant Director.

Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue B1, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel. 310.453.7535, fax. 310.453.1595

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