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Rob Davis

Works

Works

Plates 3
, 
2025
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Oil on Canvas
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76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
Plates 2
, 
2025
 - 
Oil on Canvas
, 
76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
Plates 1
, 
2025
 - 
Oil on Canvas
, 
76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
Blue
, 
2020
 - 
Oil on Linen
, 
101,6 x 101,6 cm (40 x 40 inches)
Tanya
, 
2020
 - 
Watercolor on paper
, 
Sheet size: 21.5 x 20.3 cm
Nina
, 
2020
 - 
Watercolor on paper
, 
Sheet size: 28 x 21.5 cm
sunglasses
, 
2018
 - 
pencil on paper
, 
sheet size: 26.3 x 17.6 cm, framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
Henry moore
, 
2017
 - 
Pencil on paper
, 
Sheet size: 20.4 x 26 cm, Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
Future House - Matti Suuronen
, 
2017
 - 
Pencil on paper
, 
Sheet size: 20.8 x 27.2 cm, Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
Marijuana
, 
2017
 - 
pencil on paper
, 
Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
bobbie gentry
, 
2017
 - 
Pencil on paper
, 
Sheet size: 26.5 x 20.3 cm, Frame size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
Hard candy
, 
2017
 - 
Pencil on paper
, 
Framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm (17.2 x 13.7 inches)

Exhibitions

Rob Davis
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One of These Days. One of These Days.

February 14, 2022
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March 14, 2022

In Turin, from February 14 to March 14, 2022, Luce Gallery is pleased to present the solo show “One of These Days. One of These Days.” of Robert Davis.

“One of These Days. One of These Days.” is a newly created series of thirty intimately scaled watercolors. For these works, the American artist focuses on the “now”: a time that he defines as a reflection of the trauma, politics, social upheaval, and violence we are collectively enduring, and in so many different forms and times have always faced. Through the lens of both history and art history, his paintings intimate a transhistorical narrative that touches on the cycle of birth, death, and all struggles in between.

For his classically rendered work, Davis chose readily available imagery that spans popular culture and high art, images that are imbued with their own referential logic or, regardless of age, echo current realities. These include, among others: a classic rock album cover by Pink Floyd that is a homage to George Orwell‘s classic novel “Animal Farm”; a photograph of the killer Frankie Baker, who inspired the murder ballad “Frankie and Johnny” by Bill Dooley; old master paintings “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” by Cristofano Allori and “The Parable of the Blind” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

The notion of circularity in both the work and the exhibition title plays out more directly in pieces rendered multiple times: three of the same portrait of Marvin Gays, four versions of “Ophelia” after John Everett Millais, two paintings of the Grateful Dead’s iconic “skeleton”.

Davis’s style of appropriation might be understood as a kind of psychological exercise. His work’s reliance on repetition, returning, and revisiting implies a “working through” of a contemporary moment so burdened by its long history.

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Born in 1970

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

Apollo, Broadway, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

2024

The Golden, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

2022

Robert Davis, Luce Gallery, Turin, IT

2021

The Crysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

2018

1976, curated by Rashid Johnson, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY

2017

1975, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2015

Anything to Feel Weightless Again, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2014

Retrospective Gallery, New York, NY

Bill Brady KC, Kansas City, MO

2013

Half Gallery, New York, NY

NADA New York 2013 (solo booth), New York, NY

Wine, cigarettes, songs and such, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2010

Ballad of the Martyr, Curated by David Hunt, Charest Weinberg, Miami, FL

2009

Into The Void, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

House of the Rising Sun, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Rob Davis, Deborah Handler: Lace, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL

2024

Fifteen Years, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2021

There's There There, Organized by Rashid Johnson, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY

2020

Open Air, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy

2016

Ars Memoria: A Selection from Moca's Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL

2015

CCA Andraxt Kunsthalle, Mallorca, Spain

2014

The Go Between, curated by Eugenio Viola, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

2013

Bubblebottle coffe, Martin Asbaek Gallery,Copenhagen, Danmark

Dodge Gallery, New York, NY

All F@*#ing Summer, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Springs

DNA Strand of Abstraction, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY

2012

YTD, South London Gallery, London, UK

YTD, Sommer Contemporary,  Tel Aviv,  Isreal

2011

Re: Chicago, DePaul Museum, Chicago Il.

2009

The End, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2008

Sharpening My Oyster Knife, collaboration with Rashid Johnson, Kunstmuseum, Madgeburg, Germany                                                                

Ah! Decadence, Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, curated by Sanford Biggers

2004

Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, NYC

2003

Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, curated by Dominic Molon

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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

2004/2007

Chicago Artadia Grant Recipient

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EDUCATION

1997

The School of The Art Institute of Chicago

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Works

Frederic Remington
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
RFK
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Mask
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Mary Cassatt
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Early American
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Candle II
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Candle I
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Marvin III
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Marvin II
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Marvin I
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Frankie Baker
 - 
Watercolor on Panel
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Girl with Roses after George G. Hartwell
 - 
Watercolor on Panel
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Grateful Dead II
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Grateful Dead I
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Allen Iverson
 - 
Watercolor on Panel
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Candy Darling
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
JFK
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm (10.9 x 8.5 inches)
 , 
2022
Hank Williams
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Malcom X
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Dìa de Muertos
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Stil Life with Meat after Claude Monet
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Ophelia after John Everett Millais IV
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Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Ophelia after John Everett Millais III
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Ophelia after John Everett Millais II
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Ophelia after John Everett Millais I
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm
 , 
2022
Animals
 - 
Watercolor on paper
 , 
27,9 x 21,6 cm
 , 
2022
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Blind leading the Blind
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Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Roses
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Karen
 - 
Watercolor on Paper
 , 
21,6 x 27,9 cm (8.5 × 10.9 inches)
 , 
2022
Plates 3
 - 
Oil on Canvas
 , 
76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
 , 
2025
Plates 2
 - 
Oil on Canvas
 , 
76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
 , 
2025
Plates 1
 - 
Oil on Canvas
 , 
76,2 x 76,2 cm (30 x 30 inches)
 , 
2025
Blue
 - 
Oil on Linen
 , 
101,6 x 101,6 cm (40 x 40 inches)
 , 
2020
Henry moore
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 20.4 x 26 cm, Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
 , 
2017
Future House - Matti Suuronen
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 20.8 x 27.2 cm, Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
 , 
2017
Marijuana
 - 
pencil on paper
 , 
Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
 , 
2017
Untitled
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Pine wood, graphite, polyurethane, welded steel
 , 
Sculpture size: 124.4 x 26.5 x 27 cm, Overall dimension: 185.5 x 41 x 41 cm
 , 
2017
Untitled
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Pine wood, graphite, polyurethane, welded steel
 , 
Sculpture size: 117 x 27 x 25.5 cm, Overall dimensions: 178 x 41 x 41 cm
 , 
2017
bobbie gentry
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 26.5 x 20.3 cm, Frame size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2017
Levar Burton
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 27.1 x 20.3 cm, Frame size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2017
james Baldwin
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 27.1 x 20.3 cm, Frame size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2017
Hard candy
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm (17.2 x 13.7 inches)
 , 
2017
Lena
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
 , 
2018
Angela Davis
 - 
Pencil on paper
 , 
Frame size: 34.9 x 43.7 cm
 , 
2017
Stevie Wonder
 - 
pencil on paper
 , 
sheet size: 25.3 x 20.1 cm, framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2018
James baldwin
 - 
pencil on paper
 , 
sheet size: 24.3 x 16.2 cm, framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2018
sunglasses
 - 
pencil on paper
 , 
sheet size: 26.3 x 17.6 cm, framed size: 43.7 x 34.9 cm
 , 
2018
Aretha
 - 
Watercolor on paper x
 , 
Sheet size: 24.1 x 21.5 cm
 , 
2020
Angela
 - 
Watercolor on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 26.6 x 21.5 cm
 , 
2020
Tanya
 - 
Watercolor on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 21.5 x 20.3 cm
 , 
2020
Nina
 - 
Watercolor on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 26.6 x 20.3 cm
 , 
2020
Nina
 - 
Watercolor on paper
 , 
Sheet size: 28 x 21.5 cm
 , 
2020
Sunglasses
 - 
OIL ON CANVAS
 , 
60,9 X 60,9 CM (24 X 24 INCHES)
 , 
2024