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Contemporary Bodegones

Past exhibition
May 9 - September 6, 2024 New York City
Chuck Ramirez, Coconuts, 1997, 2002
Chuck Ramirez, Coconuts, 1997, 2002 Installation images by Daniel Terna
Chuck Ramirez, Coconuts, 1997, 2002

Chuck Ramirez American, 1962-2010

Coconuts, 1997, 2002
Pigment inkjet print
16 x 16" each one
Set of 3 photographs
6/10
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Eva Marengo Sanchez, Otw. Text me your order, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Eva Marengo Sanchez, Otw. Text me your order, 2024
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Eva Marengo Sanchez, Otw. Text me your order, 2024
  • Coconuts
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'And his 'Coconut series,' a triptych where Ramirez ticks elements off his checklist: playful dissection with melancholy undertones, revelation of stark contrast between interior and exterior, a moment of meditation...
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"And his "Coconut series," a triptych where Ramirez ticks elements off his checklist: playful dissection with melancholy undertones, revelation of stark contrast between interior and exterior, a moment of meditation on something captured already on its way to the trash. What’s easily overlooked in this particular series is the fibrous interstitial layer between skin and meat, representing all connective tissue that holds anything together. And here too comes the Ramirez dilemma, crux of value and meaning. Whether or not you are familiar with the disparaging joke (i.e. brown on the outside, white on the inside), neither was exactly true of him, exactly. On the outside, he was ruddy-faced, blond-haired, and blue-eyed. And on the inside, if Ramirez wasn’t all-white, it’s because that’s where the connective tissue of his grandmother dwelled." Sarah Fisch.
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Exhibitions

Contemporary Bodegones, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY, 2024
Refined Reflections into the Formidable: Contemporary Latino Art from the Zoe Diaz Collection, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; curator: Dr. Scott A. Sherer, 2023
Cecilia Paredes & Chuck Ramirez: Photographing Identity, Ruiz-Healy Art, New York, NY, 2019
All This and Heaven Too, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; curator: Rene Paul Barilleaux and Hilary Schroeder, 2017
Why is the Sky Blue? Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX: curator: Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, 2015
Chuck Ramírez: Minimally Baroque, Ruiz-Healy Art and Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio; curator: Victor Zamudio-Taylor, 2006
Deeply Superficial, DePauw University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN; curator: Kaytie Johnson, 2006
Aztlán Hoy, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain; curators: Stellweg, Carla and Berta Sichel, 1999
Coconut, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX; curator: Hills Snyder, 1997

Literature

Kelly, Brian P. “‘Contemporary Bodegones’ and ‘Monomythology’ Reviews: Yesterday’s Subjects, Today’s Artists” The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2024.
Fisch Sarah, “Chuck Ramírez Career Retrospective Spans Venues, Decades and Distance.” San Antonio Current, September 12, 2017 (illustrated)
Ewing, John. “Chuck Ramírez’s Coconut.” Voices of Art, Sept. /Oct. (1997): 3-4 (illustrated)

Publications

Exhibition Catalogue, Refined Reflections into the Formidable: Contemporary Latino Art from the Zoe Diaz Collection, Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; curator: Dr. Scott A. Sherer, 2023, p. 44 (illustrated)

Exhibition Catalogue, Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; curators: Rene Barrilleaux and Hilary Schroeder, 2017, p. 31 (illustrated).
Exhibition Catalogue, Why is the Sky Blue? Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX: curator: Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, 2015 (illustrated)
Chuck Ramírez: Minimally Baroque, Ruiz-Healy Art, and Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX; curator: Victor Zamudio-Taylor, 2011, p. 19 & 34 (illustrated)
Stellweg, Carla. “Chuck Ramírez.” In Aztlán Hoy: La Posnación Chicana. Madrid, España: Comunidad de Madrid, 1999.
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