Gerald Davis (b. 1974, Pittsburgh, PA USA)

Gerald Davis’ intensely detailed and delicate oil and pencil works on paper ooze a brash, youth-drenched sexuality paired with undertones of an endearingly self-conscious humility. The muted tones he employs in these works subtly but significantly enhance his emblematic motifs of memory, mirage and fantasia.

Davis received his BFA from Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Select galleries and institutions that have exhibited his work include Saatchi Gallery, London (2008, 2006), Yvon Lambert Gallery (2007), Salon 94 and John Connelly Presents, New York (2006), Royal Academy at Burlington Gardens, London (2006), Peres Projects, Berlin (2006), Baronian Francey, Brussels (2006), Bergdorf Goodman, New York (2005) and Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles (2005, 2003). 

Publications in which Davis and his work have been profiled include ARTnews and Art in America. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Image: Gerald Davis, Ass Worship, 2004, lithograph, edition of 12, 22 x 30 inches (55.88 x 76.2cm).

(c) Gerald Davis