Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based painter best known for paintings and works on paper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations, its open-endedness a stance she actively cultivates. The resultant mix of eclectic form and content is surprising as well as stimulating. Davis, who is African American, says her practice explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history” and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order.
Born in Baltimore, MD, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, three Artist Fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Davis has lectured widely on her work and other art related subjects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth College, and the National Arts Education Association, to name a few. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical and Art Forum magazines.
