Karon Davis: Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking is Karon Davis’ meditation on the complicated, all too often absent role of the Black figure within the canon of art history. About Theexhibition presents new life-size, nude sculptures created from bodycasting friends, muses, and models. Incorporating and expanding uponthe classical tradition of sculpture, Davis reconsiders the nude througha contemporary lens. Drawing from visual art, mythology, and theatrefrom antiquity to the modern era, Davis creates figurative tableauxthat reflect on and reimagine Western traditions of representation. Sculpture