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Karon Davis (née Karon Vereen; born 1977), is an American visual artist, and a founder of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles. She is known as a sculptor and an installation artist touching on issues of race and identity in America through representations of the human body.
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Nov 17, 2023 · In “Beauty Must Suffer” at Salon 94, the sculptor and installation artist Karon Davis focuses on the realities that dancers, and especially Black dancers, face in the world of ballet.
Mar 31, 2021 · Karon Davis in her Los Angeles studio among new sculptures she calls “Double Dutch Girls.” She is establishing her own professional identity after years of being associated with her artist...
Oct 16, 2023 · Karon Davis, the daughter of two dancers, creates elaborate installations of ballet dancers in white plaster. Her exhibition "Beauty Must Suffer" at Salon 94 explores the beauty, pain, and conformity of the art form.
But recently, Karon Davis has been carving out an independent professional identity as an artist, a process that has led to her first solo exhibition in New York at Jeffrey Deitch’s gallery, through April 24.
Karon Davis (b. 1977, Reno, Nevada) creates sculptures and multimedia installations that touch on issues of history, race, and violence in the United States, using materials as varied as plaster strips, chicken wire, glass, and readymade objects.
