Sonia Louise Davis Selects

Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
December 9-18, 2021
Greene Naftali Gallery

This is the seventeenth Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) benefit exhibition. Extending the “artists for artists” history of the organization, FCA invited artist Sonia Louise Davis to serve as curator. Davis has generously supported FCA for many years through service on grant panels and as an artist contributor.

Interested in the connection among artists, Davis took works by Suzanne Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg on view here as her curatorial framework.

106 artists have generously donated the works in this exhibition to benefit FCA’s programs of support for individual artists.

On Saturday, December 18 at 3PM, there will be a performance by Ashley Grier who will respond to works on view in the exhibition through voice and movement. Grier is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes her background as a classically trained singer and performer to create mythologies and build worlds with and around the human voice and body.

From the Curator, Sonia Louise Davis

“Artists for artists,” the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ guiding principle, should be a mantra. Curating this year’s benefit exhibition has been both an honor and a charge. The urgency of our present moment demands the kind of care I witness within the communities I’m a part of. As artists, we never do our work alone. We recommend our peers, assist our mentors, show up for friends at their exhibitions and performances. Community is an active verb—it’s something we must do.

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Yuji Agematsu
Lisa Alvarado
Mimi Bai
Bianca Beck
Colleen Billing
Cecily Brown
Zoë Buckman
Esteban Cabeza de Baca
John Cage
Paul Chan
Alex Chaves
Anne Collier
Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Sonia Louise Davis
Erika deVries
Steve DiBenedetto
Leah Dixon
Florencia Escudero
Sarah Faux
Rochelle Feinstein
Raque Ford
Ivan Forde
Robert Gober
Camilo Godoy
Nan Goldin
Cleve Gray
Naima Green
Marcia Hafif
Heather Hart
Meena Hasan
Heidi Howard
Iris Yirei Hu
Jacqueline Humphries
Suzanne Jackson
Jasper Johns
Jennie C. Jones
Michael Joo
Wyatt Kahn
Millie Kapp and Matt Shalzi
Alex Katz
Jon Kessler
Gelare Khoshgozaran
Nancy Y. Kim
Ajay Kurian
Ralph Lemon
Julian Lethbridge
Glenn Ligon
Sam Moyer
Pam Lins
Becca Lowry
Nick Mauss
Suzanne McClelland
Leeza Meksin
Tanya Merrill
Wardell Milan
Azikiwe Mohammed
Eliza Myrie
Sophy Naess
Dona Nelson
Tammy Nguyen
Ken Okiishi
Precious Okoyomon
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
Kambui Olujimi
Sheila Pepe
Mai-thu Perret
Peter Perry
Shani Peters
Judy Pfaff
Julia Phillips
Valerie Piraino
Lari Pittman
Estefania Puerta
Martin Puryear
Jessica Rankin
James Rauchman
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Robert
Matana Roberts
Halsey Rodman
Carlos Rosales-Silva
Rachel Rose
Joseph Santore
Jimena Sarno
Keisha Scarville
Harry Schleiff
Michelle Segre
Alan Shields
Gedi Sibony
Cal Siegel
Amy Sillman
Xaviera Simmons
Kiki Smith
Richard Smith
Kara Springer
Mildred Thompson
Marcela E. Torres
Meg Turner
Sam Vernon
Patrice Renée Washington
James Welling
T.J. Wilcox
Kiyan Williams
Deborah Willis
Sarah Zapata
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung