After being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as a young woman, Franne Davids (1950-2022) spent the rest of her life at her parents’ house in Connecticut, using the basement as an art studio. Occasionally she ventured down to the Museum of Modern Art. She ultimately left behind more than 500 works on paper and 42 large paintings. In this exhibition, her posthumous New York debut, the patchwork compositions are reminiscent of Klimt and the yellows and dark reds seem lifted from some Russian fairy tale; concentric circles and parallel lines serve as curtains and puffed sleeves and fill the spaces between bodies with radiating waves of energy.
