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Kenturah Davis — TXME 1 - clr - K suite
Kenturah Davis — TXME 1 - clr - K suite
Kenturah Davis — TXME 1 - clr - K suite
Kenturah Davis

TXME 1 - clr - K suite

2020

Rendered in UV ink on handmade kozo paper with chine collé, this 2020 work by Kenturah Davis belongs to a suite that sits at the intersection of portraiture, language, and material sensitivity. Davis uses text not as caption or commentary but as the very substance of image-making, allowing letterforms to accumulate into the contours of a face, a figure, or a presence, so that meaning emerges through looking and reading simultaneously. The result is a work that rewards sustained attention, shifting between legibility and abstraction depending on how closely the viewer approaches the surface. The choice of kozo paper is far from incidental. This lightweight, fibrous Japanese paper carries its own history of careful craft, and paired with the precision of UV printing and the tactile layering of chine collé, the work achieves a physical delicacy that counterbalances its conceptual density. Davis, who divides her practice between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra, has developed a visual language concerned with how identity is constructed through the words we use to name and describe ourselves. That inquiry feels especially charged here, where the body and language become inseparable. Signed by the artist and offered as part of the Critical Resistance Benefit Auction, this piece represents an opportunity to acquire a work by an artist with a growing international profile, whose large-scale commissions and institutional exhibitions span Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The work ships from Los Angeles, with shipping and handling costs the responsibility of the winning bidder.

Medium
UV ink print and chine collé on handmade kozo paper
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Kenturah Davis, TXME 1 - clr - K suite, 2020

Rendered in UV ink on handmade kozo paper with chine collé, this 2020 work by Kenturah Davis belongs to a suite that sits at the intersection of portraiture, language, and material sensitivity. Davis uses text not as caption or commentary but as the very substance of image-making, allowing letterforms to accumulate into the contours of a face, a figure, or a presence, so that meaning emerges through looking and reading simultaneously. The result is a work that rewards sustained attention, shifting between legibility and abstraction depending on how closely the viewer approaches the surface. The choice of kozo paper is far from incidental. This lightweight, fibrous Japanese paper carries its own history of careful craft, and paired with the precision of UV printing and the tactile layering of chine collé, the work achieves a physical delicacy that counterbalances its conceptual density. Davis, who divides her practice between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra, has developed a visual language concerned with how identity is constructed through the words we use to name and describe ourselves. That inquiry feels especially charged here, where the body and language become inseparable. Signed by the artist and offered as part of the Critical Resistance Benefit Auction, this piece represents an opportunity to acquire a work by an artist with a growing international profile, whose large-scale commissions and institutional exhibitions span Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The work ships from Los Angeles, with shipping and handling costs the responsibility of the winning bidder.

Medium
UV ink print and chine collé on handmade kozo paper
Dimensions
sheet: 43.2 x 31.1 cm
Year
2020
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Critical Resistance Benefit Auction

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