Paul Davis’s first published work was a pencil drawing for Playboy magazine, the issue of October 1959. Born in 1938, Davis had already been drawing for some time: in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he and his friends Russell Myers and Archie Goodwin started a cartoonist club at their high school. The three met at the Owl Drugstore, where they worked together on their first playful designs. That Playboy drawing, however, propelled Davis to success. He formed his eponymous studio in 1963, in Sag Harbor, and drew for the publications Life, Time, Look, The New York Times, and New York magazine. Soon Davis started collaborating with Joe Papp and his Public Theater. As the writer Kurt Vonnegut once said, Davis’s work is “theater itself.” This exhibition offers a selection of the illustrator’s new, personal work. —Elena Clavarino