Davis Rhodes (B. 1983)

Over five panels Davis Rhodes explores a terse, minimal abstract language of singular, iconic forms that immediately organise a flat, graphic composition. Yet these works are also inflected with a pop sensibility in Rhodes’s choice of bright, playful colors that burst out of the picture and feel like they are derived more from film posters than from the history of abstract painting. In this way Rhodes’ work is related to the American painter Mary Heilmann, in that both find their unique languages in the abstractions presented by everyday life