These paintings, often featuring crowds of identical dark-suited men, portray the hollowness of contemporary progress, corporate monuments to inanity and the empty and absurd cabals of the wealthy. Today the rich and powerful are more often considered by the masses with outrage and fear. Ian Davis however, takes a cynical gander at the upper crust of the business and cultural elite and, for all the scope of their power and the scale of their projects, pokes fun at what is, quite often, merely empty posturing.
A good number of paintings can be seen at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York
and, lucky him, there a few pieces at Saatchi Gallery in London
For a longer more informative review of his work check out this article at kansascity.com
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"Audience" 2007 acrylic on canvas
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"Chant"
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"Excavation"
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"Skeptics" 60" x 65" acrylic on linen 2010
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"Art Collection"
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