Artist Noah Davis left us way too soon
Ephemeral and timeless Paintings by Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum in Westwood by Bondo Wyszpolski I was beginning to feel guilty. I’d go to the Hammer Museum in Westwood and see much-ballyhooed exhibitions like “Breath(e)” and “Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal,” and come away not very impressed. But now we have “Noah Davis” on view throughout the summer, and what a poignant, elegant show it is. Noah Davis, Isis, 2009. Oil and acrylic on linen. 48 × 48 in. Mellon Foundation Art Collection. Courtesy of the Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner. Photo: Kerry McFateIf we’re talking about this artist, we’re not talking ancient history. Raised in Seattle, where he was born in 1983, Noah Davis went to New York and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art before relocating to Los Angeles in 2004. He had his first solo show here in 2008, the same year he met and married the artist Karon Vereen. Their son, Moses, was born in 2010. In 2012, having inherited money from his father, Noah and Karon rented four adjacent storefronts along Washington Blvd. in Arlington Heights and converted the spaces into the Underground Museum, which opened in 2012. The Underground Museum became a cultural…
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