File:Lisa Corinne Davis (Black) Heritage Search.jpeg

Work on paper by Lisa Corinne Davis, (Black) Heritage Search #5 (ink, graphite, colored pencil, 11" x 11", 1990). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 1990s, when she produced mixed-media pieces using visual analogies to examine race, the quest for individual identity, and distinctions between self and other, individual and group. This work included wall pieces and objects combining raw construction with delicate painted imagery, and in this case, self-portraits which she covered with graphite, leaving only ghostly figural images below semi-reflective surfaces. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by a major museum.

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 early body of work in Lisa Corinne Davis's career in the 1990s: her mixed-media works, which used visual analogies to examine race, the quest for individual identity, and distinctions between self and other, individual and group. This work included self-portraits, wall pieces and objects combined raw construction with delicate painted imagery that often wedded modernist abstraction and postmodern content. Many were obsessive, elaborately layered collage-style works that used hundreds of variable elements taken from magazines, novels and history books: multiracial headshots, cutouts of eyes, multicultural alphabet signs, maps and fingerprints. 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 early stage and body of work, which brought Davis initial 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.