sonia louise davisa promise, a portal, possibility

Eight new tufted soft paintings, a steel sculptural instrument, a neon and hand-drawn wall text on improvisation.

davis’s second solo show with the gallery fills the ground level with new work about the tenor and limits of improvisation. The tufted paintings are made from the reverse side, so the whole only appears once the work is turned around, and she treats drawing as a kind of dancing and song.

The works were made in her Manhattan studio and at Stoneleaf Retreat, an artist residency in upstate New York. The writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, in dialogue with davis for months beforehand, contributed a text for the show.

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