Lisa Corinne Davis (b. 1958, Baltimore, MD) uses abstraction to explore the interiority of concepts such as race, culture, and history, challenging classification, and contingency. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations; its open-endedness is a stance she actively cultivates. Davis’ style is vi-brant, cartographic, and abstractly renders a space that is essentially ephemeral visuals. Her map-like works turn fantastical and strange, speaking to the fluidity of culture and one’s location within as an individual. Davis describes her practice as exploring the complex relationship between, “race, culture and history”. With ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order are discussed. Recently, Davis has worked more with the materiality of paint, allowing the process of working with paint to flow more organically.