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, "Timer."
"The Polar Series" is the result of a return to painting by Davis beginning in June of 2021. At that point he had not painted on canvas for about 15 years, focused instead primarily on his computer generated "Pixel Dust" works. Davis's initial foray with a rectangular format quickly shifted when, as he says, "as I worked, the desire to “find the center” became my mission." He drew inspiration from a 1963 tondo, "Target," which with its alternate-colored, light and dark bullseye
seemed an apt format to explore, as he puts it, the "opposite poles of light-dark, black-white, up-down. I mounted the circles on square backings tipped 45 degrees as diamonds, to better define their objecthood...."
This move itself is a part of the complex interweaving of paradoxes that run through "The Polar Series." These opposites interac
