The Polar Series, an exhibition of new paintings by Ronald Davis will open at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on March 6 and extend through March 31. An Opening Reception will be held on Friday, March 6 from 5-7 p.m. A Gallery Talk, “A Conversation, Remembering Ron Davis,” with guest panelists Ron Cooper, Jim Grant, and Gary Wong will be held on Saturday, March 7 from 2 – 4 p.m. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street.
These discs of brilliant and confounding color are alluringly tactile. There is an itch in the palm, a desire to smooth one’s hand over the curved edges of the tondos, across their abstract, colorful geometries. The rounded edges and glossy surfaces underscore the lived experience of Ronald Davis’s last series of work, The Polar Series, as objects rather than, in a more classical and rarified sense, paintings. Mounted atop diamond shaped canvases, the inner tondos tug at the viewer, zeroing one’s vision center-ward with their bullseye-like attraction.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is honored to present a selection of pieces from Ronald Davis’s final body of work, The Polar Series, including the very last painting that Davis completed a few days before his death, Timer.
