California African American Museum Acquires Damien Davis’s “Term Limit (Blackamoors Collage #338)”

Damien Davis, Term Limit (Blackamoors Collage #338), Laser-cut acrylic and stainless steel hardware, 32 x 21 inches, 2020

Charlie James Gallery is delighted to announce the acquisition of Damien Davis's Term Limit (Blackamoors Collage #338) by the California African American Museum. Special thanks to Taylor Aldridge and Taylor Bythewood-Porter and the whole CAAM team for their support of Damien and his work.

Term Limit was featured in Damien’s solo show Hard Line Fade at the gallery from October - November 2020.

The work of NY-based artist Damien Davis (b. 1984) explores historical representations of Blackness, seeking to unpack the visual language of cultures and investigate how society codes, decodes, and recodes representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production. Composed of glyphic shapes, patterns, and images, the works interact in prismatic ways, creating shifting relationships to meaning, brokering new associations and conversations about how identity is performed in culture.

Damien Davis (b. 1984), holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. His works have appeared at The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY and various galleries across the country. He is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and has been awarded residencies with Triangle Arts Association, the Museum of Arts and Design, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pilchuck Glass School and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Davis is currently an artist in residence at Dieu Donné Paper Mill in Brooklyn, NY. He is also a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York. Davis lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.