[4] Davis's family moved from Tuskegee, Alabama to Los Angeles, California in 1955 where he was exposed to Asian art.

[2][6] The Davis brothers got the idea for opening the Brockman Gallery during the drive back to Southern California from the 1966 Meredith March in Jackson, Mississippi.

[12] In 1973 the brothers also founded a non-profit organization called Brockman Productions to support art in the African-American community.

[4] Davis, an alum of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,[15] has a fellowship offered there in his name for writers, composers, and artists of African or Latino ethnicity.

His mural, acrylic on concrete, depicted a series of internationally recognizable symbols including the Olympic Rings.