Chuck Ramirez (1962 – 2010): Minimally Baroque
Saturday November 12, 1 – 9pm
Dina Mitrani Gallery
2620 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood Miami FL
November 12, 2011 – January 20, 2012
Breakfast Reception: Thursday, December 1st, 9am – Noon
Wynwood Art Walk, Saturday, December 3rd, 6 – 11pm
Dina Mitrani Gallery, in collaboration with Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, is pleased to present Chuck Ramirez (1962 – 2010): Minimally Baroque. Chuck Ramirez, who tragically died one year ago, was an artist and designer who lived and worked in San Antonio, Texas. His large-scale photographic portraits and installations of ordinary objects are humorous, yet poignant metaphors for the transient nature of consumer culture and the frailty of life.
Gallerist Dina Mitrani met Chuck Ramirez at an opening at Ruiz-Healy’s Gallery in San Antonio. During the course of the evening, they talked enthusiastically about his photography and the possibility of exhibiting in Miami. Two days later, the artist had a biking accident and passed away. This exhibition has been organized to honor the artist’s memory on the anniversary of his death, and is an effort by both Patricia Ruiz-Healy and Dina Mitrani to bring his life’s work to larger audiences.
As an artist and graphic designer, Ramirez processed and deconstructed the media world in which he lived. His work employed visual and conceptual techniques found in contemporary advertising and package design, while employing subtle social commentary. Chuck Ramirez showed extensively throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe. Solo and group exhibitions include the Bronx Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; El Portal del Arte Contemporáneo (ARCO) Madrid; Centro de la Imagen and O Lamm, Mexico City; Galeries Khadrberlin, Berlin; Arlington Museum of Contemporary Art, TX; Center of the Visual Arts, Denver; the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX; the Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio; and the Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY. He was selected for an Artpace Residency in 2001 by Jérôme Sans, an independent curator and co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
The estate of Chuck Ramirez is exclusively represented by Ruiz-Healy Art.
More information at
www.dinamitranigallery.com
www.ruizhealyart.com
Image above: Candy Tray Series: Black Heart, 2002, pigment print on cotton paper,
48 x 48 inches, edition 3/6
