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Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque: Ruiz-Healy Art

Past exhibition
August 31 - October 13, 2011 San Antonio
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Artwork: Godiva 3, 2002, Pigment inkjet print, 36 × 30 in
Artwork: Godiva 3, 2002, Pigment inkjet print, 36 x 30", 91.4 x 76.2 cm

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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Works
  • Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Godiva 1, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Godiva 1, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Whitmans, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray: Whitmans, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Whatacup, 2002, 2014

    Chuck Ramirez, Whatacup, 2002, 2014

  • Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Amelia, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Amelia, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Ethel, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Ethel, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Piñata: Andrea, 2002

    Chuck Ramirez, Piñata: Andrea, 2002

  • Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Franco, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Franco, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Gregory, 2002
    Chuck Ramirez, Pinata: Gregory, 2002
  • Chuck Ramirez, Acenar: Dulce de Coco, 2004
    Chuck Ramirez, Acenar: Dulce de Coco, 2004
  • Chuck Ramirez Seven Days: Dia de los Muertos, 2003 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm or 24 x 30", 60.9 x 76.2 cm 1 / 6
    Chuck Ramirez
    Seven Days: Dia de los Muertos, 2003
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
    or 24 x 30", 60.9 x 76.2 cm
    1 / 6
  • Chuck Ramirez Seven Days: Tex-Mex, 2004 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm 1 / 6
    Chuck Ramirez
    Seven Days: Tex-Mex, 2004
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
    or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm
    1 / 6
  • Chuck Ramirez Seven Days: KFC, 2003 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm 1 / 6
    Chuck Ramirez
    Seven Days: KFC, 2003
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
    or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm
    1 / 6
  • Chuck Ramirez Seven Days: Birthday Party, 2003 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm 1 / 6
    Chuck Ramirez
    Seven Days: Birthday Party, 2003
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
    or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm
    1 / 6
  • Chuck Ramirez Seven Days: Breakfast Tacos, 2003 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm 1 / 6
    Chuck Ramirez
    Seven Days: Breakfast Tacos, 2003
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 60", 121.9 x 152.4 cm
    or 24 x 30", 61 x 76.2 cm
    1 / 6
  • Chuck Ramirez Purse Portraits: Red Skin (Jennifer), 2005 Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively 60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 61 cm
    Chuck Ramirez
    Purse Portraits: Red Skin (Jennifer), 2005
    Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively
    60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 61 cm
  • Chuck Ramirez Purse Portraits: Lifestyles (Dawn), 2005 Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively 60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 60.9 cm
    Chuck Ramirez
    Purse Portraits: Lifestyles (Dawn), 2005
    Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively
    60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 60.9 cm
  • Chuck Ramirez Purse Portraits: MFAH (Cynthia), 2005 Pigment inkjet print 60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 61 cm 3 / 3
    Chuck Ramirez
    Purse Portraits: MFAH (Cynthia), 2005
    Pigment inkjet print
    60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 61 cm
    3 / 3
  • Chuck Ramirez Purse Portraits: Art to a Poet (Marcela), 2005 Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively 60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 60.9 cm
    Chuck Ramirez
    Purse Portraits: Art to a Poet (Marcela), 2005
    Pigment inkjet print, edition of 3 and 6 respectively
    60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    or 30 x 24", 76.2 x 60.9 cm
Installation Views
  • Ggh 6494
  • Chuck Ramirez Minimally Baroque At Rha First Space
  • Ggh 6478
  • Ggh 6542
Publications
  • Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque

    Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque

    Essays by Frances Colpitt, Jennifer Davy, Ariel Evans, Sarah Fisch, Anjali Gupta, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Chris Sauter, Hills Snyder, Carla Stellweg, Victor Zamudio-Taylor 2011 Read more

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  • Artwork Image: Chuck Ramirez, Trash Bag: White 1, 1998, Pigment ink print mounted on aluminum, 60 x 48", Edition 3 / 10

    Chuck Ramirez

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