Structure and Imagery

Debra Ramsay and Sharon Brant at Key Projects May 11 - May 26, 2019 Sharon Brant and Debra Ramsay Debra Ramsay Debra Ramsay with work at Key Projects, 2019 Vincent Como at Minus Space May 4 - June 22, 2019 Installation view with some of the opening night crowd. Vincent Como at the opening of his exhibition The Negative Approach Operating System (For Intermediate to Advanced Practitioners) Len Bellinger and Denise Sfraga at M. David & Co. April 26 - June 2, 2019 Denise Sfraga and Len Bellinger at their concurrent solo exhibitions at M. David & Co. Len Bellinger Len Bellinger Len Bellinger: installation view Len Bellinger (detail) Denise Sfraga Denise Sfraga: installation grouping. Denise Sfraga Denise Sfraga: installation view.

Installation view of Debra Ramsay's Painting Time From the Press Release: You might be surprised to learn that this installation— comprising a profusion of colorfully painted and curled strips that pile, unfurl, and tumble across the floor—is a landscape. Yes, a landscape. Debra Ramsay generates a strict set of rules to guide her creative process for each new body of work. For this installation, she distilled her daily walks in the woods to pure color. What you are seeing is her color record across four seasons. Painting Time is at once reductionist and exuberant. While Ramsay reduces the complexity of color change in nature to momentary snap- shots over a year of seasons, the swirling heaps of color evoke nature’s abundance. That the conceptual rigor of her work doesn’t overpower the aesthetic pleasure of the experience is a testament to Ramsay’s artistic power. Painting Time exists in the aesthetic realm—a place where interpretation is nuanced and flui...

Debra Ramsay, Hue, Place, Pace, One Year of Color , 2016, acrylic on polyester film, dimensions variable (installation, detail) Debra Ramsay: HUE[S]PACE Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6 - 8 PM September 9 - October 9, 2016 Artist's Talk: Sunday, October 2, 3PM Event: Saturday Oct 1, there will be two dance performances w/Norte Maar/Gleich Dances Odetta Brooklyn, NY info Sharon Louden, Windows, 2016, oil on paper, 8.25 x 12 inches Sharon Louden: Windows Opening Reception: September 8, 6 - 8 PM September 8 - October 8, 2016 Morgan Lehman New York, NY info  Sharon Butler, An early painting based on digital drawings featured on the artist's Instagram feed (@sharon_butler) Machines of Paint and Other Materials , curated by Jennifer Riley featuring work by :  Sharon Butler, Cora Cohen, Elizabeth Hazan, Kathleen Kucka, Doreen McCarthy, Marcie MacGuffie, Laura Newman, Erin O...

Vincent Como,  Trismegistus , 2012, oil on canvas over board (in three parts), 49.375 x 49.625 inches overall. (Courtesy of Minus Space) The Violent Study Club: In Conversation with the Artists Please join us for an informal conversation with the artists from our current exhibit, The Violent Study Club . Participating artists Vincent Como, Jonathan Cowan and Debra Ramsay will discuss and answer questions about the concepts underpinning their work and studio practices. Saturday, December 19, 2p info Stout Projects From the Press Release: Earlier this year a group of artists began to meet and discuss books, essays and interviews that relate to and explore the ideas of spiritualism and the mystic as they influenced Modern and Contemporary artists and the works they made. Soon it became apparent that four members of this group (The Violent Study Club) produced work that not only explored the afore mentioned themes to varying degrees but also shared...

Debra Ramsay ,  The effects of a fold on a line, graphite.  8 inch square, Kozo paper, graphite, 2013 Volume 2: Black and White Co-curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez With work by:  David Ambrose, Etamar Beglikter, Jerry Birchfield, Astrid Bowlby, Amélie de Beauffort, Lorrie Fredette, Liz Jaff, Christopher Michlig, Gelah Penn, Debra Ramsay, Lauren Seiden, Matthew Shelley, Barbara Siegel, Renee van der Stelt, Allan Wexler and Etty Yaniv This exhibit is one bookend of a two-part exhibition exploring the ways in which artists respond to paper and transform it from the 2 dimensional into the 3 dimensional in innovative and engaging ways. Through December 6th, 2015 Schema Projects info

Artist, Debra Ramsay takes a closer look. Detail of work (on left) from photo above. From the Press Release: Petzel Gallery is delighted to announce the inauguration of our new uptown location with an exhibition of early paintings by Charline von Heyl. The group of paintings assembled was previously exhibited in Cologne and Munich between 1991 and 1995, before the artist moved to New York. This will be the first showing of the work in the United States. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with an interview between Isabelle Graw and the artist. Cologne in the late 1980s was dominated by a debate about the merits and pitfalls of painting. If there was any point of agreement, it was in rejection of the mythic landscapes of Anselm Kiefer and the gestural marks of the internationally acclaimed neo-expressionists. However esoteric the arguments about painting may seem today, they helped clarify a skeptical position on painterly authenticity that wa...

 Debra Ramsay   (detail from work above)   Installation view From the Press Release: While their color palettes generate an immediate sense of relationship, Paik arrives at his intuitively, while Ramsay’s is system-based. The artists share a generative process of making, a cultivation of a standardized element that is repeated and worked. In Alex’s case, it’s a geometric form, a unit that he multiplies and folds, orients or otherwise uses again and again to make the work. Debra walked a specific trail, collecting colors every hundred steps via photographs, once each season, generating a palette of 72 distinct colors that were worked in a variety of ways. Both artists consider the element of time. Paik’s work changes as you change your viewing angle; Ramsay documents color change at one location over the year, as an absurd time keeping device. Alex Paik  Alex Paik About the Artists: Alex Paik was born ...

Work by Alex Paik (left) and Debra Ramsay From the Press Release: Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present  Generative Processes , featuring the work of Alex Paik and Debra Ramsay. The exhibit highlights shared elements within their practices and cites the particular manifestation of each. The work operates on an intimate and humble level, combining the abstract and cerebral with grace and humor. While their color palettes generate an immediate sense of relationship, Paik arrives at his intuitively, while Ramsay’s is system-based. The artists share a generative process of making, a cultivation of a standardized element that is repeated and worked. In Alex’s case, it’s a geometric form, a unit that he multiplies and folds, orients or otherwise uses again and again to make the work. Debra walked a specific trail, collecting colors every hundred steps via photographs, once each season, generating a palette of 72 distinct colors that were worked in ...

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Debra Ramsay, A Year of Color, Adjusted for Daylength , 2014, acrylic on Dura-Lar, 40 x 60 inches. Above: Yellow Trail, Fall from the grouping Yellow Trail, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter , acrylic on museum board, each: 20 x 30 inches. Debra Ramsay gives insight into her studio practice in an interview with Valerie Brennan for Studio Critical here . Look for Ramsay's work in a two person show with Alex Paik coming up at TSA in Bushwick; in February of 2015. Images courtesy of the artist.