Ian Davis and Yoora Lee: An Installation of New and Recent Work

Ian Davis (b. 1972, Indianapolis) studied Fine Arts at the Arizona State University and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His works chronicle moments of human gatherings, often immediately before or after an event, usually a disaster of sorts. The tension of these pre- and post-apocalyptic situations is always palpable. Exhibitions include Ian Davis, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2025, solo, forthcoming); Ian Davis and Yoora Lee, Nicodim, New York (2024); The Mass Ornament, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2022, solo); Liminal Spaces: Tom Anholt, Ian Davis, Rabia Farooqui, Emma Fineman, Arthur Lemaitre, Radu Oreian, Hiroe Saeki and Waswo X Waswo with R. Vijay, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (2022); Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2021); Gifts from the Flat Files, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque (2020-21); Majeur Force: Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2019); We Contain Multitudes, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (2019); 2nd Dark Age, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2018, solo).

Yoora Lee (b. 1990, South Korea) is a Korean artist based in Los Angeles. The artist’s work explores the subjects of our daily lives through a series of recreated images from television and the internet. Lee uses wavering horizontal brush strokes to mimic video tape distortions and glitches in subtle, pastel colour. Exhibitions include Ian Davis and Yoora Lee, Nicodim, New York (2024); Shadow Etched in Stone, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024, solo); Lonely Crowd, Half Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Ripe, Harper's, Los Angeles (2023); DISEMBODIED curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, New York (2023); Finding my missing half, T293 gallery, Rome (2022, solo); YOU ME ME YOU, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022); Anemone, Another Place, New York (2022, solo); Exodus, Gallery Ascend + K 11 Muse, Kowloon, Hong Kong (2022); Harmonious Arrangement, Half Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Burn In, Jude Gallery Chicago, Chicago (2021, solo); and many others.

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New York

December 13, 2024 – February 1, 2025

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Selected Works