Aurie Ramirez
March 7 - April 5, 2025
Reception: Friday, March 7, 5:00 -8:00 p.m.
Aurie Ramirez appears courtesy of Creative Growth
Aurie Ramirez
AR 550, ND
Watercolor and ink on paper
15 x 22.50 inches
Et al. is proud to be exhibiting Aurie Ramirez, our second time working with Ramirez (previously we showed Ramirez’s work in a group exhibition in Mexico City) and first solo with the artist.
From Creative Growth’s website:
Aurie Ramirez’s sophisticated and delicately rendered watercolor and ink compositions create a fantasy world of 18th century dandyism, neo-Victorian decorum, psychedelia, glam rock sex, and anthropomorphic food. With imagery ranging the full spectrum from saccharine landscapes with smiling suns to punk fetishism and hardcore erotica, Ramirez explores sexuality, fashion, violence, and forbidden foods. Often depicting groups of women in KISS garb (Ramirez’s favorite band and most profound visual touchstone), Ramirez presents these women and their ephemera in endless iterations like paper dolls. In another series, she explores her Filipino heritage and childhood memories by reimagining traditional wardrobe on her red and green pinstriped characters. Ramirez is obsessive in her production, filling sketchbooks with dozens of compositions in a single day.
Ramirez’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally, including White Columns and Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York; Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles; ABCD, Paris; Collection de l’Art Brut, Switzerland; and MADmusée, Belgium.
