PAUL DAVIES

Central to Davies’ approach is the notion of painting as a site of memory. Architectural references, whether drawn from Observed environments or internalised impressions are translated into compositions that oscillate between the real and the imagined. These works resist fixed interpretation. instead proposing spatial fields that are contingent and in continual flux. The layering of paint operates simultaneously as a formal strategy and conceptual device. personal histories within the material surface while withholding them from full resolution.

Davies’s work has been acquired by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the University

Of California Irvine, Institute and Museum Of California Art, Scottsdale Museum Of Contemporary Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum, MAK Center for Art and Architecture and the Laguna Art Museum. In 2016 he completed a residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture Phoenix and work from this is now held in the permanent collection at the Scottsdale Museum Of Contemporary Art and McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery- In 2013 he was awarded a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris by the Art Gallery Of New South Wales. Davies was featured with Luc Tuymans and Peter Doig in the essay ‘Limbo Architecture - Painters Of Modernism’ by Aaron Betsky, director Of the Cincinnati Art Museum (2006-14), for the May 2014 edition Of Architecture Review.

Courtesy Cassandra Bird