Chuck Ramirez, Dust Collections and other Tchotchke: Yellow Flower, 1995, Pigment inkjet print, 14 x 12 in 35.6 x 30.5 cm, Edition of 10
Walk past the Blue Star Arts Complex along South Alamo Street, and you might just hear the ghost of San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez chuckling. Long after Ramirez debuted there as an artist in 1995, a stone bench was installed, featuring an unsourced Picasso quote: “Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” In his own art, the typically irreverent Charles Anthony Ramirez (1962-2010) flipped his famous forebear’s equation. Chuck, as he is widely known among family, friends, and colleagues, made art precisely from the dust of everyday life.
