Artwork by Maria Tomasula and Dan Ramirez
With striking color and theatrical compositions, Tomasula’s artwork is influenced by an aesthetic of the Mexican diaspora, especially of altar painting, as well as by ‘new materialist’ writers. As an artist she seeks to create images that give visual form to the elusive sensation of being, of embodiment, and of relation with the world. She brings simple objects such as fruit and flowers together to create metaphorical, poetic works. The seemingly inanimate objects take on the vibrancy of evocative, sensual characteristics.
Opening September 8, closing October 14.
"Vertical Thoughts" continues Dan Ramirez’s life-long interest in language, materials, music, religiosity, and the spiritual. Introducing novel explorations with graphite, wood, aluminum, ceramics, varnishes, and reflective processes that use light metaphorically and in real time, Ramirez extends traditional modes of painting, drawing, and printmaking, providing a unique approach to aesthetic and conceptual forms of expression. This exhibit is accompanied by “Vertical Thoughts” a book presenting essays and an interview that probes what underscores this new and ongoing development in Ramirez’s art.
Opening September 8, closing October 14.
Friday: 10-5
Saturday: 11-5
Sunday: closed
