Noah Davis's paintings are weird, dark, and intoxicatingly beautiful—a range he hit with subtlety and ease. He used muted colors, diluted pigments, and washed-out drip marks to render black figures…
"Artists of Color" did two things bravely. First, it presented rooms of geometric abstractions, monochromes, and color fields from the likes of Josef Albers, Imi Knoebel, and Jo Baer—the sort of…