The Roaring Daze | Paul Davies Exhibition Reception: May 17, 6–8pm Exhibition: May 14, 2019 – June 16, 2019
Olsen Gruin is pleased to present The Roaring Daze, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Paul Davies. This body of work explores the connection between Davies’ Australian heritage and his adopted home, California. Joining this new group of works is Davies’ painting, Three Stories, the largest commission in SoHo House history that debuts in The Roaring Daze before locating to its permanent home at the SoHo House DTLA Warehouse. Davies’ exhibition title is a play on Henry Lawson’s 1889 gold rush poem. The Roaring Daze will be on view at Olsen Gruin from May 14 – June 16, 2019. Selected photos from Davies’ prolific collection are enlarged and meticulously hand cut into screens through which paint is brushed in layers onto the canvas. The screens are contrasted with freehand brush marks which Davies explains “were in part guided by Joan Didion’s The White Album stories of old and new California, told from memory and historical fact.” Davies’ paintings are open-plan spaces of architecture and landscape. The subjects interlock with one another in bright hues and invite a multitude of readings rather than a straightforward narrative.