In the Ultimate I Dwell is an exhibition of portraits and figures by Mississippi-based artist Shuriya Davis. Nine large canvases depict figures enmeshed in their environments, emerging from swirling expanses of color and exuberant brushwork making them at times indistinguishable from the paint itself. Like a lotus that blooms from the deepest mud, Davis transforms the inanimate muck of painting into individuals expressing grief, suffering, compassion, and jubilation.

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