Sinking

JMikal Davis’ works are grounded in the earliest experiments of abstraction and the influence of music on the art form. Much like Kandinsky took his queue from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to launch some of the earliest abstract paintings, Davis, too, is looking at the influence and interpretation of music through visual means. He started creating street art in the late 1990s while still in art school in the South. Upon graduating and moving to Brooklyn in 2000, Davis took up the nom de plume Hellbent and began experimenting with various media associated with the genre. Finding Abstraction largely underrepresented in the scene, he began working extensively in this style and moved away fromillegal works to commissioned projects. His work has been shown with the New Museum and C24 Gallery both in NYC, along with shows in Chicago, LA, San Fran, and the UK and as far as Tehran, Iran. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Vogue, and the Huffington Post, and he has collaborated with fashion brands Ralph Lauren, Rodarte, and Coach. Recently, Architectural Digest chose his large painting at 44 Wall Street in the top 10 best Art in lobbies of New York.