Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based painter best known for paintings and works on paper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography” prompts a wide range of interpretations; its open-endedness is a stance she actively cultivates. The resultant mix of eclectic form and content is surprising as well as stimulating. Davis, who is African American, says her practice explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history” and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaos and order. Born in Baltimore, MD, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europe and have been received positively by the press including The Telegraph, Art News, Art in America, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hopkins Review, The New York Times and The Brooklyn Rail.  Davis is currently represented by Miles…