Paul Davies
Helen O'Neil
3 October 2015
Paul Davies cuts his stencils with the same kind of scalpel blade his ophthalmologist father uses to slice into eyes. The results are different of course. Davies junior's use of the scalpel is potentially far less messy and brings forth images that are apparently serene and seemingly two-dimensional. Yet the issue of redefining vision is the same. That is a theme that has defined this 36-year-old artist's career to this date. Born in Sydney, now living in Los Angeles, he often uses mid-20th-century modern architecture in his work yet says what is there is not what it seems.
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Paradise Lost: Paul Davies' Fictive California
HyperallergicLouis Bury
Saturday, June 8
The painter's depiction of breezy palm trees and picturesque mountain ranges contain eccentric, discordant details.
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Paul Davies: The Roaring Daze at Olsen Gruin
Whitehot MagazineKurt McVey
June 1, 2019
Davies, a Sydney, Australia native now living in Los Angeles, pulls his visual references heavily from legendary if not infamous architectural structures, which he personally documents using digital photography and later (often years later) renders up in his large-scale, pulpy (in the full Tarantino version of the word) acrylic on canvas paintings. The show also features one-off, sunset-pastel, long-exposure photograms as well as his minimal, hand-painted, laser cut sculptures.Â
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PAUL DAVIES Centennial Gifts: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection at Laguna Art Museum
March 2019OLSEN Gallery artist Paul Davies' work Landscape in open-plan is on show at the Laguna Art Museum group exhibition Centennial Gifts: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection March 3 - May 27, 2019. This is the first exhibition to be shown in the museum's newly remodeled lower-level galleries.
Alison Kubler
Isssue 25 | February to April 2019
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Soho House DTLA Warehouse to Feature Original Paul Davies Mural
The Hollywood ReporterJordan Riefe
October 19, 2018
Paul Davies is selected to paint a 17x7 foot mural at the Soho House's new DTLA Warehouse set to open in spring 2019.
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Paul Davies
Soho House magazineCharlotte Steinway
October 2018
Paul Davies, LA-based Australian artist known for his Modernist houses and bold landscapes.
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Elissa Blake
March 27-28, 2010
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September 2018Paul Davies work "Landscape in Open-plan" has been acquired by the Laguna Art Museum in California.
Working to Scale
LALA MagazineCourtney Coffman
Spring Issue 2018
From objects to buildings Honora Shea and Danielle Rago of This X That help emerging designers and architects think big - and small.
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Soho House MagazineKate Bryan
July 2018
Australian born artist Paul Davies investigates the relationship between built and natural environments in his atmospheric pantings, which often draw on historic modernist masterpieces. This painting, which mirrors nature with architecture, is a key work at DUMBO House, where the collection reflects the site's own staggering setting - specifically, its skyline views.
Paul Davies
3/11/2017
Australian artist Paul Davies reveals the genesis of his series of artworks linking 19th-century gold rushes in California and Australian with modern-day Los Angeles
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The MAK Centre for Art and Architecture West Hollywood and This x That (who dedicates to bringing architecture and design to broader audiences) present a site-specific installation by artist Paul Davies at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles.
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Sophie Tedmanson
May 2016
Meet the artist whose work crosses the lines between architecture and nature, painting and photography...
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Georgina Safe
9 August 2015
Many people find the concrete and glass sprawl of LA to be ugly and isolating, but Paul Davies sees the city as a work of art. "You have this incredible built environment of modernist architecture right within a natural environment of sunshine, canyons and oceans," he says. "You can't help but be inspired."
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Kate Britton
29/10/14
You’ve recently made the move to Los Angeles. How is it treating you?
I moved to West Hollywood in February this year with my wife Sarah and am represented by the Heather James Fine Art Gallery. The Gallery deals with new and secondary work from Andy Warhol, Picasso, Yves Klein and Damien Hirst. It has spaces in Palm Desert and Jackson Hole here in the States and I have a solo exhibition at the Palm Desert gallery in January 2015.