Current Exhibition

Ava Jeanne Davis: Endless Memories

Exhibition Dates: May 10 – June 8, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday May 10, 6-9pm

Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5 pm, except for Second Saturdays when hours are 6-9 pm.

In her first solo show, Ava Jeanne Davis continues her season of exploration into the memories of her family and friends.  Endless Memories traverses her own snapshots as well as the memories of her family and ancestors to find familial connection in traditional and unexpected places. She hopes that others in diaspora will relate to the complex emotions of disconnected family structures and what loss feels like when interrupted by closeness.  Ava Jeanne’s work is a study on reunification with memories and the range of emotions that are born thereof. 
 
The portraits painted switch between warmness and coolness, singularity and groups, and direct eye contact and confrontation with the viewer versus painted subjects ignoring the viewer beyond the fourth wall. Within each oil painting and watercolor, there exists a world where marks, strokes of color, and value battle, dance, or sweep across the substrate to create a relationship between the lives captured within the artwork and the life that exists outside of the piece. This show will explore love’s entanglement with familiarity, comfort, loss,  imagination, and memories.
 
Ava Jeanne Davis is a visual artist native to Washington D.C. and Jackson, Mississippi. She received her formal arts education during her formative years at Wells Academic and Performing Arts Complex (formerly Power APAC), before studying Studio Art and Early Childhood Psychology at Tulane University in New Orleans, graduating in 2023. Since graduating, she has begun pursuit of a Masters of Social Work while refining and maintaining her painting practice. This show marks the near end of her nine-month artist residency at St. Roch Community Church in New Orleans, where she ingratiated herself into the Saint Roch community while diving deeper into her practice. Ava Jeanne works primarily in two-dimensional mediums with a focus on portraiture and ideas surrounding love, family, beauty, and nostalgia. 

Connections: Staple Goods 10th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog

Exhibition catalog commemorates the collective’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Connections (May 2021), and is available for $5.

Text by Amy Mackie. Book Design by Tiffany Lin. Printed at Paper Machine. Curated by Laura Richens.

Participating Artists: Minka/Thomasine, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Abe Geasland, Daniel Kelly IV, Kristina Knipe, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Kaori Maeyama, Anne Nelson, Jack Niven, Laura Richens, Cynthia Scott, Sadie Sheldon, Lorna Williams