Listening Session
George Riley and Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura

Barbican Art Gallery, London
Tuesday 1st Apr 2025, 7pm

Join us for a special late opening of the Noah Davis exhibition in the art gallery, the first major institutional exhibition of this groundbreaking LA painter.

Musician and pop artist George Riley and curator and former NTS Radio director of music Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura respond to the work Davis with their own archive, bringing little known tracks, associative responses and playing us through the exhibition in this intimate listening session.

Noah Davis blended pop culture and music, low and high art in his work. On large scale canvases he weaved ritual and myth and his paintings also drew on his personal life and own photographic family archive. Davis was also involved in practices of togetherness through his curatorial project The Underground Museum and Purple Garden, which housed music performance, yoga classes and other community coalescing. For Davis, painting was a way to connect to a higher plane, the act of painting itself was transcendent a connection to the ineffable.