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.
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.