Noah Davis (painter)

Noah Davis (June 3, 1983 – August 29, 2015) was an American painter, installation artist, and founder of the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, CA. When talking nearly his work, Davis has said, "if I’m making any statement, it’s to just pretend black people in normal scenarios, where drugs and guns are nothing to attain with it," and describes his take action as "instances where black aesthetics and modernist aesthetics collide." Davis died at his house in Ojai, California upon August 29, 2015 of a rare form of soft tissue cancer.