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Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque: Blue Star Contemporary

Past exhibition
September 1 - November 6, 2011 San Antonio
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Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Yellow Roses, 2000, Pigment Inkjet Print, 46 x 34", Ed. of 5/6
Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Yellow Roses, 2000, Pigment Inkjet Print, 46 x 34", Ed. of 5/6

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 Brooms: Bleached Lilac, 2007, 2011 Pigment inkjet print 60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm 1 / 3
    Chuck Ramirez
    Brooms: Bleached Lilac, 2007, 2011
    Pigment inkjet print
    60 x 48", 152.4 x 121.9 cm
    1 / 3
  • Chuck Ramirez, Brooms: Escoba Perdida Vieja, 2007
    Chuck Ramirez, Brooms: Escoba Perdida Vieja, 2007
  • Chuck Ramirez, Brooms: Orange Pushbroom, 2007
    Chuck Ramirez, Brooms: Orange Pushbroom, 2007
  • Chuck Ramirez, Coconut: Inner Shell, 1997
    Chuck Ramirez, Coconut: Inner Shell, 1997
  • Chuck Ramirez Coconut: Outer Shell, 1997 Pigment inkjet print 48 x 48", 121.9 x 121.9 cm or 16 x 16", 40.6 x 40.6 cm Edition of 10
    Chuck Ramirez
    Coconut: Outer Shell, 1997
    Pigment inkjet print
    48 x 48", 121.9 x 121.9 cm
    or 16 x 16", 40.6 x 40.6 cm
    Edition of 10
  • Chuck Ramirez, Coconut: White Coconut, 1997
    Chuck Ramirez, Coconut: White Coconut, 1997
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Green Paper, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Green Paper, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Pink Ribbon, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Pink Ribbon, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Purple Ribbon, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Purple Ribbon, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Turquoise, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: Turquoise, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: White Carnations, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine: White Carnations, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Red Roses, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Red Roses, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Yellow Roses, 2000
    Chuck Ramirez, Quarantine Series: Yellow Roses, 2000
  • Chuck Ramirez Trash Bags: Absolut, 1998 Pigment inkjet print 60 x 48" 152.4 x 121.9 cm 7 / 10
    Chuck Ramirez
    Trash Bags: Absolut, 1998
    Pigment inkjet print
    60 x 48"
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    7 / 10
  • Chuck Ramirez Trash Bags: Black Sack 1, 1998 Pigment inkjet print 60 x 48" 152.4 x 121.9 cm 5 / 10
    Chuck Ramirez
    Trash Bags: Black Sack 1, 1998
    Pigment inkjet print
    60 x 48"
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    5 / 10
  • Chuck Ramirez Trash Bags: Vegan, 1998 Pigment inkjet print 60 x 48" 152.4 x 121.9 cm 7/10
    Chuck Ramirez
    Trash Bags: Vegan, 1998
    Pigment inkjet print
    60 x 48"
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    7/10
  • Chuck Ramirez Santos Series (Brady Bunch), 1996 Pigment inkjet print, edition of 6 78 x 108" 198.1 x 274.3 cm (22 x 30", 55.9 x 76.2 cm each)
    Chuck Ramirez
    Santos Series (Brady Bunch), 1996
    Pigment inkjet print, edition of 6
    78 x 108"
    198.1 x 274.3 cm
    (22 x 30", 55.9 x 76.2 cm each)
Installation Views
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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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