“The work was so strange, so beautiful, and so emotionally evocative,” said the curator Lindsay Charlwood. “Everything always existed in strong opposition within his work and within his personality too.” A new exhibition on Noah Davis (1983–2015) explores the different forces at play in the sensual, figurative paintings for which the artist is revered, and also presents ephemera from The Underground Museum, an ambitious experimental space that Davis founded with the goal of showing art in culturally underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods. —J.V.