Throughout her career, Lynn Davis has characteristically organized her photographs into series by subject, theme, and /or location, however this exhibition, which includes works from all periods of a career that spans more than three decades, is marked by groups comprising four images, each with ... Read more
Throughout her career, Lynn Davis has characteristically organized her photographs into series by subject, theme, and /or location, however this exhibition, which includes works from all periods of a career that spans more than three decades, is marked by groups comprising four images, each with divergent subjects—ranging from natural forms to ancient monuments to modern and postmodern/contemporary architecture, and even including a rare image from her early Bodywork series—all of which share formal affinities.
Presenting Lynn Davis in a rigorous context of modern and contemporary art in all media, and outside the exclusive realm of photography, affords the opportunity of an expanded consideration of her work. Davis is known for the metaphorical beauty of her subjects; she has been compared to the great travel photographers of the 19th century, and her work is also known for the serial photographic record she has created of architectural monuments both ancient and modern, of sacred sites, and of land and seascapes—many made more poignant by impending erosion and disappearance. Davis’s photographs transcend these categorizations, yet while the primacy of shape and form in her work has been observed by writers on her art, this will be the first solo exhibition to focus on her images as essays in abstraction, beyond time and place.
