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Painting by Lisa Corinne Davis, Doodle Verité (oil on panel, 30" x 22", 2007). The image illustrates a key mature body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 2000s, when she produced densely layered, abstract paintings and works on paper that suggested maps and other encoded forms of knowledge. These works explored systemic, documentary and narrative impulses, combining contrasting schemas and visual elements such as skeins of curling lines, flat cartoonish shapes, and passages of spilled or squeezed paint, layered over backgrounds of blue, white, and green squares. As in this case, her use of line often suggested skewed latitude and longitude grids or organic webs, while the flat shapes resembled landmasses or plant, insect and anatomical forms, with details suggesting both technical and the handmade qualities. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Lisa Corinne Davis. Copyright held by the artist.

Lisa Corinne Davis

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mature body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 2000s: her abstract paintings and works on paper that suggest maps and other encoded forms of knowledge. These densely layered pieces employs abstraction as a means of rendering the complexities of contemporary experience—including her own as an African-American woman—questioning preconceived notions about identity, classification, and rationality versus subjectivity. They often use contrasting schemas, visual elements and formal languages, blurring distinctions between figuration and abstraction, real and fictive spaces and concepts, and microcosmic or macrocosmic reference. In the 2000s, her work was characterized by skeins of curling lines, flat cartoonish shapes, and passages of spilled or squeezed paint, layered over backgrounds of blue, white, and green squares. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this major body of work, which brought Davis wide recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Davis's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Lisa Corinne Davis, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.