Sonia Louise Davis. QM-Jerome Foundation Fellow

About

Sonia Louise Davis is a visual artist, writer, and performer whose practice is invested in improvisation as a responsive and rigorous form of research that uses the body as a guide. Davis creates graphic scores using an invented notation and this vocabulary manifests itself across site-specific wall drawings, mark-making on found objects, and playful hand-crafted textiles using industrial tufting machines. For her first museum solo show, Davis will present a new body of work that includes custom steel instruments which will be activated by performers and improvisers over the course of the exhibition. The artist situates her work within a lineage of Black feminist abstraction, creating environments that engage with softness, tactility, resonance, and deep listening.