"...incredible paintings...elegant details...visionary practice."

– "The 13 Best Black Art Books of 2023", Culture Type

“A thrilling discovery and a terrible loss”

– Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine

“Embedding his dreams on canvas and in the community, visionary American artist Noah Davis created a mighty legacy.”

– Rachel Willcocks, ArtReview

“An early sign of the New Year’s strengths was a solemnly beautiful survey of the truncated career of the painter Noah Davis (1983-2015) at David Zwirner in mid-January. Davis combined realist figuration with touches of painterliness and color that added a resonant symbolism and elegiac calm to his scenes of almost-everyday African-American life.” 

– Roberta Smith, The New York Times

“Davis’s paintings are primarily figurative, sometimes dipping into the surreal and other times languishing in the mundane, and most often occupying a space between the two—a realm of quiet magic in which the everyday is imbued with the infinite.”

– Wallace Ludel, The Art Newspaper

“Davis’s paintings combine immediacy, conjured by a rich color palette full of vibrant, often dripping blues, with a timelessness—more precisely, a sense of being unstuck in time—that derives in part from his transtemporal source material.”

– Camila Mchugh, Artforum

“There was nothing formulaic about Davis’s approach. Even when he was painting mundane domestic scenes, his eye for the subject and his painterly treatment infused them with a sly, soft-pedaled, gently melancholy wonder.” 

– Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post