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Mel Davis approaches her practice by focusing on individual bodies of work. Her style transforms based on the topics she engages with. This method stems directly from how she looks at painting; she places an emphasis on observing the memories that arise each time she encounters a particular work. “It’s impossible to make a painting without thinking of past paintings. We are always in dialogue with images that came before us,” Davis says when speaking about how the culmination of imagery in our lives affects how artists work today. “In an age where there isn’t a hierarchy on how we can use …