Press Release

Mrs. is proud to present Relay, a two-person exhibition featuring new work by Kerri Ammirata and Emily Davidson.  Both artists engage with landscape as a site of introspection—one reaching outward toward the celestial, the other turning inward to the everyday. Though their vantage points differ—Ammirata working from the macrocosm of space and Davidson from the minutiae of the urban present—they share a sensibility rooted in painterly tradition and a deep psychological inquiry.

Emily Davidson’s work begins in observation, drawing from the fleeting images encountered in her daily life—seen through windows, on signs, in advertisements. Each composition is painted twice, forming “twin” paintings that echo her experience as a mother of identical twins. In East of Eden and West of Eden, dozens of “EDEN”s—gathered from churches, beauty supply stores, and health food shops throughout the New York metro area—stack together in mirrored collages. These works nod to a biblical paradise, yet render it as something elusive: a word repeated until emptied of certainty. Other paintings reimagine urban fragments as improbable landscapes—such as the hand of the UTZ girl plunging into the distant void of her chip bag, a playful horizon conjured from commercial detritus.

Kerri Ammirata looks skyward, using celestial forms to ground emotional states. Returning to oil on wood, she renders cosmic bodies—suns, moons, and planets—as meditative fields of color and gesture. Her works invite the viewer into an intimate, spiritual cosmos. In Radiate, the architecture of a proton radiation room becomes a luminous, abstract sanctuary—transforming the clinical setting of her breast cancer treatment into a space of healing and transcendence. Hope & Grief grapples with the dualities of living through chemotherapy, its softly glowing orbs offer both light and shadow, joy and sorrow. Ammirata’s paintings channel sacred geometry and the energy of mandalas, becoming devotional acts—prayers inscribed through color, form, and touch.

Together, Ammirata and Davidson offer a call-and-response—trading visions of earth and sky, intimacy and expanse. In Relay, the landscape becomes a shared language, through which memory, perception, and emotion pass from one hand to another.

Emily Davidson (b. 1987, Indianapolis, Indiana) lives and works in New York. Davidson has held solo exhibitions at Olympia, San Francisco, 2025; and GERTRUDE, Great Barrington, 2020. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, NY; Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY; Dunes, Portland, ME; Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY; David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis; Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia; among others. Davidson holds an MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She has also studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich and in the New York Studio Program at Parsons, The New School.

Kerri Ammirata (b. 1983) is a visual artist living in Ridgewood, Queens. She earned her MFA from Boston University in 2010. She has attended the following residencies: Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2024); Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY (2022); The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY (2019); Ne'Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2019); Vermont Studio Center, Clowes Full Fellowship (2012); HUB-BUB, Spartanburg, SC (2010-11); and Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY (2005 and 2006). Her work has recently been exhibited at CANADA, Helm Contemporary, island, Jack Hanley, and P.A.D. (Project Art Distribution), New York, NY; Deanna Evans Projects at Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; and FJORD, Philadelphia, PA.

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