Opening Reception: RONALD DAVIS: The Polar Series
CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART presents
RONALD DAVIS: The Polar Series
March 6 – 31, 2026
Opening reception on Friday, March 6 from 5-7 p.m.
Gallery Talk: “A Conversation, Remembering Ron Davis,” with guest panelists Ron Cooper, Jim Grant, and Gary Wong on Saturday, March 7 from 2-4 p.m.
554 S. Guadalupe in the Railyard Art District.
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art is honored to present a selection of pieces from Ronald Davis’s final body of work, The Polar Series, including the very last painting that Davis completed, Timer.
The Polar Series is the result of a return to painting by Davis beginning in June of 2021. At that point he had not painted on canvas for about 15 years, focused instead primarily on his computer generated Pixel Dust works. Davis’s initial foray with a rectangular format quickly shifted when, as he says, “as I worked, the desire to “find the center” became my mission.” He drew inspiration from a 1963 tondo, Target, which with its alternate-colored, light and dark bullseye seemed an apt format to explore, as he puts it, the “opposite poles of light-dark, black-white, up-down. I mounted the circles on square backings tipped 45 degrees as diamonds, to better define their objecthood….”
This move itself is a part of the complex interweaving of paradoxes that run through The Polar Series. These opposites interact, war, and at times resolve within each piece. And yet what these paintings do is to take that richness of conflict and irresolution and refine it. To unfold the convoluted not by solving it, but by illuminating it.
