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Painting by Lisa Corinne Davis, Psychotropic Turf (oil on canvas, 54.25" x 40", 2015). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 2010s, when she produced abstract, map-like paintings which grew increasingly complex in theme, syntax, and proliferating forms. Drawn from microscopic, macroscopic realms and mechanical realms, these works charted concepts such as the urban experience of space and time, the fragmentation of contemporary life, and identity. Reviews characterized them as haphazardly rendered topographies or warped atlas pages, delicately balanced between organic chaos and linear order, with titles that suggested humor and irreverence and undermined their reliability as maps. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Lisa Corinne Davis. Copyright held by the artist.

Lisa Corinne Davis

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 2010s: her abstract, map-like paintings which grew increasingly complex in theme, syntax, and proliferating forms, drawn from microscopic and macroscopic realms (cells, roads, maps, city grids, geographic fault lines), as well as the mechanical world of circuits and motherboards. These works charted concepts encompassing the urban experience of space and time, the fragmentation of contemporary life, and the diverse, intersecting strands of identity. They counterpose divergent structures and artistic forms—for example, objectively used line and subjective gesture, "natural" or native versus expressive or artificial color, and titles merging "factually" grounded and internal, subjective words. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this major later body of work, which brought Davis ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Davis's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Lisa Corinne Davis, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.