Yesterday I got a sneak peek at Noah Davis's show at James Harris Gallery, which opens tonight. Davis grew up in Seattle. He started out taking classes in realism at the early version of Gage Academy on University Ave, then headed to the prestigious Cooper Union school in New York to study conceptual art, then dropped out, moved to LA, and eventually just decided finally to become the figurative painter he'd always wanted to be—and pretty much rocketed to the top of the art world.
He'll tell his story in next week's paper; see the paintings now, starting with this one, based on a photograph of Langston Hughes. It's called I Wonder As I Wander, and it's oil on canvas, 36 by 54 inches.