NAKED 2010
NAKED 2010
David Richard Contemporary
Excerpt from the artist catalog: Abstraction’s Omnivore by Nancy Princenthal
The newest of Ramirez’s ventures is glazed ceramic vases, which pick up an interest in three-dimensional form that goes back to his “100% Virgin Vinyl” sculptures, shown in 1995 at Franklin Furnace in New York. Ranging from tiny to moderate in size, subtle and richly varied in color and surface pattern, and tenderly modeled into shapes that are just barely suggestive of human form, the ceramic works are displayed on plinths in a way that, like Wallace Stevens’ famous “jar upon a hill,” draws together the visual landscape around them. Deceptively modest, these vases sustain Ramirez’s commitment to blurring the distinctions between applied and fine art, discrete objects and immersive environments. An artist with an omnivorous visual appetite and an extremely discerning eye, he brings equal measures of zest and refinement to his increasingly broad range of work.
NAKED 2010, (glazed, gold luster fired clay stoneware ) 8", 6" & 7.5" × 3" × 3
David Richard Contemporary
Excerpt from the artist catalog: Abstraction’s Omnivore by Nancy Princenthal
The newest of Ramirez’s ventures is glazed ceramic vases, which pick up an interest in three-dimensional form that goes back to his “100% Virgin Vinyl” sculptures, shown in 1995 at Franklin Furnace in New York. Ranging from tiny to moderate in size, subtle and richly varied in color and surface pattern, and tenderly modeled into shapes that are just barely suggestive of human form, the ceramic works are displayed on plinths in a way that, like Wallace Stevens’ famous “jar upon a hill,” draws together the visual landscape around them. Deceptively modest, these vases sustain Ramirez’s commitment to blurring the distinctions between applied and fine art, discrete objects and immersive environments. An artist with an omnivorous visual appetite and an extremely discerning eye, he brings equal measures of zest and refinement to his increasingly broad range of work.
NAKED 2010, (glazed, gold luster fired clay stoneware ) 8", 6" & 7.5" × 3" × 3