Ramirez transforms the gallery with hard-edge shapes that explode, splatter, melt, droop, drip, and bubble across walls and canvases, breaking free from the constraints of edge and surface.
Space addiction
on view July 18 - October 11, 2002
The Sculpture Court, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
Paul Henry Ramirez's paintings have been termed biomorphic abstractions, infused with a vivacious, Dr. Seuss-like palette and a suggestion of motion and narrative recalling the cause, effect, and aftershocks of a Rube Goldberg comic strip.
Ramirez transforms the gallery with hard-edge shapes that explode, splatter, melt, droop, drip, and bubble across walls and canvases, breaking free from the constraints of edge and surface.
Image:
Paul Henry Ramirez, Untitled, from the Edging Into Excess series, 1999
Acrylic and flashe on wood, three panels, 96 x 48 in. (243.8 x 121.9 cm) each
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