Strangers are everywhere. Even behind the copper, car parts, hinges, bones, rocks and
eyelashes. How did they arrive here? Los Angeles, a place that was shaped by, but also
gave shape to a peculiar globalization. Alchemically, a globe now dissolving, from one
state to another. The everyday is a site of transformation and through sorcery fragments
become spells.
This is is the backdrop of all this magic - constant betweenness. Often from the middle of
the street, these objects both call and cast off ghosts. The spirits whisper intimacies, a
hush back and forth between maker(s) and material(s), impossible to distinguish. Across
time and space, through rupture and reinvention, the alien is preserved.
Wes Larios
Deondre Davis (b.1991, Chicago) lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include Gordon Robichaux
in New Y ork (2024). In 2025, Davis presented The New W ork, a two-artist show with Chip Hughes at Kill
Shelter Presents in Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Finding Aid, organized by Matt Connors at
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, UK; Jamb, organized by Conrad Guevara, at Et al., San
Francisco, CA; LOVESCENE, organized by Mara Hassan and W es Hardin, 17 N Oxford, Brooklyn, NY; and
Amerikas Most W anted, a two-artist show with Acaccia Marable, organized by Keto Jackson at Attom, Los
Angeles. Davis was recently selected to be an artist in residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (2025).
Davis is co-facilitator, with artist Anima Correa, of Support Group, a working group for artists to reflect and
speak about shared experiences. As an extension of their ongoing meetings at Los Angeles Contemporary
Archive (LACA), they presented, break room, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, as part of the 2023 edition
of Made in LA.
Deondre Davis
Sorcerer
September 6 – October 4, 2025
Sorcerer
September 6 – October 4, 2025