![]() At the center of the show, his circular painting Fiera: Mother of Pearl conveys the spirit of the islands, and perhaps the artist, as a half-human wild beast buoyantly emerges from an oyster shell, surrounded by precious pearls.ģ. Confronting issues of migration and colonialism, Ramirez makes his paintings by imaginatively rendering figures with oil stick, acrylic and colored pencils on paper cutouts mounted on wallpaper and wood panels and his bull sculptures by attaching the beasts’ taxidermy busts to painted wood structures, displaying shells. His “TROPICAL APEX” exhibition transforms the gallery into a blood-red environment that offers a tactile feeling of the Caribbean with giant bull sculptures, gravel and shell covered lawns, startlingly altered ceramics and a cock-fighting ring. Cleverly employing Surrealist-inspired collage and assemblage techniques, he poetically fuses humans with animals and marvelously merges objects and body parts to delightfully dynamic ends. A self-taught artist with a background in construction, Ramirez utilizes inventive ways of working when making his ongoing series of symbolic paintings and sculptures. Bony Ramirez at Jeffrey Deitch, New YorkĮxploring memories of his Caribbean roots, Bony Ramirez-who currently lives in Harlem and has a studio in Jersey City-immigrated with his family from the Dominican Republic when he was just 13 years old, but his recollections of his homeland and former life there still ring strong. With the red of the wound matching the color of the roses on the wallpaper, the act seems more romantic than punishing, yet the binoculars on the floor mischievously bring that issue into doubt.Ģ. Among our favorites is Red Right Hand, which highlights a mirror reflecting the rear-side of a standing nude with a red hand-mark, suggesting the figure had just been slapped on the buttocks. ![]() The Maine-based artist’s exhibition “Reins on a Rocking Horse” presents 22 small to medium-scale gouache on panel paintings and more than a dozen works on paper. Mixing hex signs, quilt patterns and homegrown crafts with nudes reflected in mirrors and captured on artworks displayed on the walls or seen on a screen, Buckwalter adds an erotic edge to her otherwise decorative environments.īuckwalter’s voyeuristic pictograms of charmingly organized rooms remarkably reveal intimate moments in the bedroom, embarrassing pictures on computers and intimate objects left visible in trash baskets. Inspired by folk art traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, where she spent her childhood, Anne Buckwalter makes similar flattened depictions of domestic interiors and pointed arrangements of personal objects in her realistic paintings and works on paper. Anne Buckwalter at Rachel Uffner, New York
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