Ian Davis is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work is rooted in meticulous, intricate drawing. His open-ended narratives take place within in a looming apocalypse, where crowds of conforming male subjects gather around a spectacle or an impending disaster of some kind, each outfitted in identical business suits or lab coats. The assembly of experts, seemingly earnest, yet motionless, communicates the collective anxiety of contemporary society. The multi-colored print Black Balloons, for example, references the current opioid epidemic and the Black Balloon Tribute that has spread internationally to call attention to the crisis. Throughout his work, Davis turns his keen observation and dark humor to the systemic cultural failings that shape the human condition.

He has had solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK; Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York, NY; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; among many others. His work is represented in public collections such as the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, US; and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, US, among others.