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CHUNK 2007

CHUNK 2007
Caren Golden Fine Art
Excerpts from the article: Art in America, Dec, 2007 by Nancy Princenthal

Buoyant, funny, sharp but not so it hurts, Ramirez’s new paintings, individually and collectively called “Chunk,” are as close to erotica as hard-edged abstraction gets. Bouncing across fields of bright color bound by smartly angled contours and tidy curves are paired balls of every size. Straight lines shoot out between them.

Ranging in size from 36 to 66 inches square, the numbered compositions (all 2007) include the bilaterally symmetrical 4, in which two pairs of testicular forms nestle against the ample curves of pendulous white lozenges set against a field of sunny green, the whole bisected by a big black bar. Numbers 2 and 3 are even more explicitly sexual, the latter a semaphore-like image of crossed phalluses in two shades of pinkish red, the former an elegantly bold icon in matte black that could serve as international signage for a certain kind of intimacy.

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      • 29 BY 23 INCH
      • Paint Chips
      • 27 x 6.5 Feet
      • Spread II
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      • SMOOTHIE PHYSIQUE II
      • Smoothie Physique
      • CONFECTION
      • NAKED
      • 100% Virgin Vinyl
    • installations >
      • Sweet On: Kemper Museum
      • RATTLE: Grounds For Sculpture
      • BEAUTY REIGNS: Akron Art Museum
      • BEAUTY REIGNS: McNay Art Museum
      • BLACKOUT: The Newark Museum
      • SPIN: Tarble Arts Center
      • Going Up, Up, Up, Percent For Art Commission
      • Seriously Playful: Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center
      • Elevatious Transcendsualistic: Tang Museum
      • Elevatious Transcendsualistic: Diverse Works
      • Space Addiction: Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
      • Pop Surrealism: Aldrich Museum
    • collaborations >
      • RattleX: Grounds for Sculpture
      • Zero Point Zero: Newark Museum
      • Paul Henry Ramirez with designer Rachel Roy: Bergdorf Goodman and New Museum
      • BALLS: Tang Museum
    • commissions >
      • RATTLE: Grounds for Sculpture
      • BEAUTY REIGNS
      • BLACKOUT: The Newark Museum
      • Elevatious Transcendsualistic
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