Paul Henry Ramirez “Fun in the Color”

Paul Henry Ramirez “Fun in the Color”

RYAN LEE

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RYAN LEE presents Fun in the Color, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculpture by Paul Henry Ramirez. Fun in the Color continues Ramirez’s exploration of corporeal forms and processes via biogeomorphic abstraction - a term he coined to describe his particular mix of hard-edged and figurative abstraction.

Ramirez composes his immersive installations as he would a painting, using architecture and color to guide the viewer through space. The exhibition begins with an explosion of color produced by Ramirez’s ebullient clusters of nearly 100 PaintPour paintings. Ranging in size from 8 to 40 inches in diameter, these convex round canvases present slick rings of saturated color that appear to be poured one into the next. While each is a discrete object, recalling the cellular, ocular or mammary, together they form radiating constellations that suggest the full range of infinitude from the microscopic to the galactic. The PaintPour has been an essential component of Ramirez’s installations since it was introduced as part of the solo exhibition Space Addiction at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in 2002. In his first site-specific installation at RYAN LEE, Ramirez combines his PaintPours with a 24-by-10-foot black and green mural. The bold, minimal wall painting evokes playful figural forms that seem to simultaneously caress and disperse the circular paintings.

Paul Henry Ramirez (b. 1963 El Paso, TX) was recently included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art exhibition, which traveled to eight American art museums through 2017.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing
• Sculpture

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