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Noah Davis

Noah Davis

Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. This major retrospective, open January 24 through April 26, celebrates all aspects of Davis's practice.

Browse topical books & monographs of Davis's work, prints, postcards, and an exclusive merch capsule designed for this exhibition.

  • The front cover of "Noah Davis", which depicts a painting of a music conductor standing on theater chairs against a patchwork blue background. "Noah Davis" opened, showing a block of text titled "Karon Davis on Isis, 2009" on the left page and the Isis painting on the right page. The Isis painting is of a black woman standing in front of a simple house wearing a yellow leotard and matching skirt, the hem of which she is holding by her shoulders creating a halo-like effect around her silhouette.

    Noah Davis

    $50.00
    This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed...
    $50.00
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    Noah Davis Buy Books Tote Noah Davis Buy Books Tote

    Noah Davis Buy Books Tote

    $28.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $28.00
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    Noah Davis Baseball Cap Noah Davis Baseball Cap

    Noah Davis Baseball Cap

    $32.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $32.00
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    Noah Davis Untitled (Girls) Tote Noah Davis Untitled (Girls) Tote

    Noah Davis Untitled (Girls) Tote

    $28.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $28.00
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    Noah Davis Unicorn Adult T-Shirt Noah Davis Unicorn Adult T-Shirt

    Noah Davis Unicorn Adult T-Shirt

    $48.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $48.00
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    The Conductor, 2014 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard The Conductor, 2014 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    The Conductor, 2014 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    $3.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $3.00
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    Untitled, 2015 Noah Davis 6" x 9" Postcard Untitled, 2015 Noah Davis 6" x 9" Postcard

    Untitled, 2015 Noah Davis 6" x 9" Postcard

    $3.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $3.00
  • Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now

    Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now

    $50.00
    The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance to the present   From the late nineteenth century onward, Black...
    $50.00
  • Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights

    Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights

    $70.00
    Flavin’s “gaseous images” illuminate the landscape of the Kunstmuseum Basel Legendary minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933–96) began working with fluorescent light tubes in the early 1960s. Arranged in “situations,” he would then further develop them into...
    $70.00
  • Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects

    Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects

    $29.95
    With a powerful juxtaposition of portraiture and landscape photography, this book explores Dawoud Bey’s vivid evocations of race, history, time, and place Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of...
    $29.95
  • Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum

    Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum

    $34.95
    In 1927, the Chicago Art Institute presented the first major museum exhibition of art by African Americans. Designed to demonstrate the artists' abilities and to promote racial equality, the exhibition also revealed the art world's anxieties about the...
    $34.95
  • Listening to Images Listening to Images

    Listening to Images

    $24.95
     In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through...
    $24.95
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    Mary Jane, 2008 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard Mary Jane, 2008 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    Mary Jane, 2008 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    $3.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $3.00
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    Painting for My Dad, 2011 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard Painting for My Dad, 2011 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    Painting for My Dad, 2011 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    $3.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $3.00
  • The White Card: A Play The White Card: A Play

    The White Card: A Play

    $16.00
     A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act...
    $16.00
  • Citizen: An American Lyric Citizen: An American Lyric

    Citizen: An American Lyric

    $22.00
    A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in...
    $22.00
  • Just Us: An American Conversation Just Us: An American Conversation

    Just Us: An American Conversation

    $20.00
     Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation―Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling...
    $20.00
  • Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art

    Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing about Art

    $39.95
    'Molesworth remains a rare breed: a curator who can actually write.' - Art in America An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth – the first book of her collected writings Over the past...
    $39.95
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    40 Acres and a Unicorn, 2007 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard 40 Acres and a Unicorn, 2007 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    40 Acres and a Unicorn, 2007 Noah Davis 6" x 8" Postcard

    $3.00
    Noah Davis began with a humble aspiration: ‘to represent the people around me’. Born in Seattle in 1983, he made LA his chosen home, where he worked to capture the intricacies of contemporary Black life with tenderness and depth. Beloved as a painter,...
    $3.00