Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque: Ruiz-Healy Art
The exhibition, Minimally Baroque, is a tribute to Chuck Ramirez and his practice as well as the first posthumous exhibit of his work. Quarantine, Broom, Santos, Trash Bags and Coconut Series, selected by curator Victor Zamudio-Taylor, for the Blue Star Contemporary retrospective offers a rare view of Ramirez’s method of working in sequences, presenting several almost-complete collections of his most minimalist series. Ramirez’s other celebrated series like: Candy Tray, Pinatas, Seven Day, Purse Portrait, and Acenar are concurrently on view at Ruiz-Healy Art.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, Ramirez took the skills that he used to design catalogues and product labels to transform objects from beyond the periphery of consumer desire — worn-out dust brooms, wilting flower arrangements — into chic, radiant images. Ramirez was a master of rasquachismo, art that elevates the simple, often cast-off remnants of everyday life to high art status. He faithfully depicted the undervalued bits of the local, but the art that resulted is far from vernacular.
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Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Godiva 1, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Whitmans, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Whatacup, 2002, 2014
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Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Amelia, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Ethel, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Piñata: Andrea, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Franco, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Gregory, 2002
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Chuck Ramirez, Acenar: Dulce de Coco, 2004
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Chuck RamirezSeven Days: Dia de los Muertos, 2003Pigment inkjet print48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm
or 24 x 30 in, 60.9 x 76.2 cmEdition of 6 -
Chuck RamirezSeven Days: Tex-Mex, 2004Pigment inkjet print48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm
or 24 x 30 in, 61 x 76.2 cmEdition of 6 -
Chuck RamirezSeven Days: KFC, 2003Pigment inkjet print48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cmEdition of 6 -
Chuck RamirezSeven Days: Birthday Party, 2003Pigment inkjet print48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cmEdition of 6 -
Chuck RamirezSeven Days: Breakfast Tacos, 2003Pigment inkjet print48 x 60 in, 121.9 x 152.4 cm
or 24 x 30 in, 61 x 76.2 cmEdition of 6 -
Chuck RamirezPurse Portraits: Red Skin (Jennifer), 2005Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively60 x 48 in, 152.4 x 121.9 cm
or 30 x 24 in, 76.2 x 61 cm -
Chuck RamirezPurse Portraits: Lifestyles (Dawn), 2005Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively60 x 48 in, 152.4 x 121.9 cm
or 30 x 24 in, 76.2 x 60.9 cm -
Chuck Ramirez, Purse Portraits: MFAH (Cynthia), 2005
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Chuck RamirezPurse Portraits: Art to a Poet (Marcela), 2005Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively60 x 48 in, 152.4 x 121.9 cm
or 30 x 24 in, 76.2 x 60.9 cm