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Davidson Gallery proudly presents The Smoke Detector and the Watchtower, an exhibition of new paintings by Boo Saville. The exhibition features 15 new color field and dichromatic figurative works by Saville painted over the last year and a half. The show title is taken from the book The Body Keeps the Score, by Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk, a psychiatrist and leading scholar and researcher of post-traumatic stress and its effects. Saville read Van der Kolk’s book during the lockdown in the UK and was drawn to the ways in which the book explores how traumatic events and experiences change the way …