Chuck in Context

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Chuck in Context, a special exhibition in honor of the significant survey of Chuck Ramirez's works opening at the McNay Art Museum, Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too.

As the exclusive representative for the estate of Chuck Ramirez, Ruiz-Healy Art is proud to keep the artist's memory and archives preserved for future generations. This exhibition, Chuck in Context, focuses on the texted-based works by Ramirez-including the Words series, which has never been shown in its entirety previously.

In addition to photography, Ramirez had a strong background in graphic design and was involved with the world of contemporary poetry, painting and music. Ramirez was a poet at heart and became a word designer. For Ramirez, the visual impact of text was an important part of his oeuvre and it represented another outlet to his creative spirit.

Words, produced in 2004, is a series of disparate photographs emblazoned with a single word that the photo illustrates. Over lucha libre figurines appears LIBRE; a masculine face under a platinum wig is emblazoned with QUEEN, a blurred television still of the New England Patriots huddled mid-game reads VIAGRA. Oh yes, there is one of CURATORS, too.