Pink Mirror 1969

Ronald Davis's "Pink Mirror" plays with colour, form, and illusion. Imagine Davis in his studio, pushing paint around, maybe some drips, maybe some hard edges. There’s a kind of back-and-forth, isn't there, a negotiation between intention and accident? The planes, each with its own distinct personality, create a visual puzzle that keeps shifting as you move around it. The colours are giving me a kind of emotional weather report. Like, what's the artist trying to do here? Is he trying to trick us? Painters, you know, we're always in conversation with each other. We're looking at what came before, riffing on it, and trying to push it forward. Each brushstroke, each colour choice, is a response to something. And in that exchange, something new emerges. It’s like we’re all talking in different voices, but we’re all speaking the same language. That language is painting. A way of feeling and of understanding the world.