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| Siamese Fantasy, 2009 Oil on canvas 48 ½ x 48 ½ inches |
Noah Davis, a painter and installation artist who founded the Underground Museum,
an exhibition space in a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles that
provides free art shows, died on Saturday at his home in Ojai, Calif.
He was 32.
He learned he had cancer a few years ago, his family said in confirming the death.
Mr.
Davis’s paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in
surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared
in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon. He drew inspiration from
sources as varied as Richard Brautigan’s 1968 novella “In Watermelon
Sugar” and “The Jerry Springer Show.” NYTIMES article.
