Helen Evans Ramsaran “12 Years”

Welancora Gallery

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[Image: Helen Evans Ramsaran "Secluded in the Grove" (1998) bronze, 30 x 8 x 71 in.]

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Welancora Gallery presents 12 Years, a monographic show of bronze and carved clay sculptures by Helen Evans Ramsaran.

The work on view explores the effects of climate change on life sustaining systems, specifically marine ecosystems, and touches on themes related to extinction and the evolution of man and other animal species. The title of the show is derived from a warning, in 2018, by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that only 12 years remain for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

Helen Evans Ramsaran was born in Bryan, Texas in 1943. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education (1965) and an MFA in sculpture (1968) from Ohio State University where she studied bronze casting with David Black and welding with John Freeman. She moved to New York in 1973 and began teaching sculpture and ceramics at the City University of New York in 1974, where she retired in 2008.

Ramsaran’s work is informed by her study of architecture, rituals and belief systems in ancient Africa, Mexico, China and Japan. On the occasion of her traveling solo show at the Chrysler Museum in Virginia and its final destination at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1994, Okwui Enwezor the former Director of the Haus Der Kunst, art critic, and editor of NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art noted that “Many of Ramsaran’s works come from her scrupulous distillation of her experiences while living and traveling through Africa (Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe) in the 1980s”.

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from October 20, 2019 to January 25, 2020

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