Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Open Studio Reception
Open Studios
May 16th, 5pm-7pm
Debra Ramsay, Paul Shakespear and Sarah Dineen
Please join us, this Thursday for our first Open Studios for 2013.
INFORMATION
Where: 237 Bell Road, New Berlin, NY
This event is free and open to the public
contact@goldenfoundation.org
About the Artists
Debra Ramsay: http://www.debraramsay.com/
Paul Shakespear: http://www.paulshakespear.com/
Sarah Dineen: http://sarahdineen.com/
posted May 13, 2013 | Comments (0)
NADA
Very pleased to be a part of the NADA Fair this year. If you’re in town visit the Artists Studios booth.
AS | ARTISTS STUDIOS
AT
NADA NYC
May 10th – May 12th
Friday May 10: 2-8pm
Saturday May 11: 10am-8pm
Sunday May 12: 10am-5pm
Location:
Pier 36 – Basketball City
299 South Street
New York, NY
on the East River
Artists: Noah Becker, Serena Bocchino, Dianne Bowen, Vicki DaSilva, Anne Ferrer, Michelle Kaufman, Charles Printz Kopelson, Debra Ramsay, Holly Knox Rhame, Sam Trioli, Wilson Trouvé, Sébastien Vonier, Rachael Wren, and Nola Zirin
posted May 07, 2013 | Comments (0)| Tags: Artists Studios, Debra Ramsay, NADA
Dual Zones @ Key Projects Art Space
I’m excited to be working with this great group of artists and hope you’ll get to see this show.
Key Projects
Art Space
Opening Reception
April 20, 2013 3-5 PM
Exhibition dates:
April 21, 27 & 28 1-6 PM
and by appointment
4129 41st Street, # 2G
Sunnyside, NY 11104
Artists:
Steve Karlik
Debra Ramsay
Karen Schifano
Curated by Patricia Zarate
Dual Zone is a place that lies in-between, an investigation into works that derive from painting but have characteristics of sculpture.
The artists in Dual Zone are stretching, pulling, folding, angling and constructing with varied materials, works that exist in that twofold state.
Steve Karlik creates opposing forces that work harmoniously in his “tension and compression” series. Debra Ramsay methodically maps a space using repeating lines and folds that intersect and recede. Karen Schifano’s constructions are playful commentaries on geometric abstraction.
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posted March 30, 2013 | Comments (0)| Tags: Dual Zone, Karen Schifano, Key Projects Art Space, Patricia Zarate, Steve Karlik
Drawing Exhibition
I’m pleased to be included in this exhibition and program in Berlin.
Anonymous Drawings
800 international drawings
curated by Anke Becker
exhibition: March 24 – April 20, 2013
opening reception: Saturday 23 / 7 pm
Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord
Turmstraße 75 / 10551 Berlin
opening hours: Sun March 24: noon-6 pm
afterwards: Tue – Sat, 1-7 pm
www.kunstverein-tiergarten.de
www.anonyme-zeichner.de
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What is the line between what is and is not art? What is a good drawing? How does one’s own assessment change if there is no information at all about the artist? With Anonymous Drawings the common rules of the art-market are reversed in an experimental way turned upside down. Anonymous Drawings was founded 2006 by the artist Anke Becker in Berlin, Germany. Since then, more than 8000 artists from all over the world have taken part in the project and more than ten shows of Anonymous Drawings took place in Berlin and abroad up until today.
The exhibition was preceded by an open call for participation on the internet. 800 works have been selected for the exhibition. The age, biography or gender of the participants did not play any role in the selection: the selection has been made anonymously, without looking at the artists’ names. The only formal rule: the maximum size of the exhibited drawings is 30 by 42 cm (A3). The artist’s anonymity can only be revealed by a sale: All exhibited drawings are available for a symbolic unit sales-price of 150 Euros each.
With Anonymous Drawing many single pieces of art become one “Gesamtkunstwerk”: Each and every anonymous artist becomes part of a huge installation where hierarchies do not exist. Anonymous Drawings is an action against separation, competition and monoculture within the art-market and a tribute to the inexhaustible medium of drawing.
Sale of drawings for a unit sales price of 150 Euro each at the gallery and online (from March 24 – April 20): www.anonyme-zeichner.de
A catalog is published along with the exhibition: color print, 102 pages, German/English, 19,50€ - with an essay by Daniela Droescher.
program:
Thursday, April 11, 7.30 pm
Aufruf zum Dilettieren.Zum Verhältnis von Handwerk und Kunst.
lecture by Christine Ax with following talk / in German language.
Saturday, April 20, 8 pm
Finissage and film screening: Hidden Treasures – drawing and animation, curated by Bettina Munk ((Lines Fiction) und Björn Hegardt(Fukt Magazine)
posted March 26, 2013 | Comments (0)| Tags: Anonymous Drawing
Rituals of Exhibition
I’m delighted to be included in this group show
by Light Space Projects, in Phayao, Thailand
Feb 24- Mar 9
Other artists included in the exhibition are:
Pedro Boese, Katja Brinkmann, Nate Ether, Wolfgang Flad, Brent Hallard, Jan Holthoff, Gilbert Hsiao, Franziska Hunig, Isabel Kerkermeir, Andrew Leslie, Julie Opperman, Rob De Oude, Mel Prest, David Rhodes, Andreas Schmid, Gunna Schmidt, Alexandra Schland, Mark Sengbusch, Jessica Snow, Elisabeth Sonneck, Nicola Staglich, Klaus-Martin Treder, Anke Volk, Nancy White, Patricia Zarate.
posted February 20, 2013 | Comments (0)
Real Time: A Pop Up show, extended
Extended due to storm Nemo.
Reception on Friday, February 15th from 7-9pm. Private viewing hours available by appointment 2/12-15, please contact me for details.
Real Time a pop-up show Friday, February 8th
Hosted by ARTISTS STUDIOS, 63 artists from New York City and Paris France will exhibit for one day at
526 West 26th Street, #523 Public Reception 7-9pm
Measuring Parallels 45, wax, eggshell, ink, on birch panel, 10 in, 2011
I hope to see you there!
posted February 05, 2013 | Comments (0)
An afternoon at the Drill Hall
Just as the video I’ve placed here is a fragment, so will be my following impressions of the massive, complex, multilayered installation that is the event of a thread, Ann Hamilton’s response to the city block large Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory. The installation is both of gigantic proportion (the fabric curtain that gets its movement from the attached swings) and personally sized…newspapers documenting the thinking and making of the work, packages that contain radios enabling you to hear the words of the readers at one end of the space…
Then there’s the people interacting with the piece, giving it life. We form a swarming unpredictable necessary element, dwarfed by the space, our interactions with the work teach and entertain us and give a performance for the others. Viewer and viewed.
If you can, see if for yourself. Up through January 6th. 643 Park Avenue@ 67th St.
posted December 14, 2012 | Comments (0)| Tags: Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread
Exhibition “Making Room” gets reviewed:
Joanne Mattera has done a wonderful job reviewing the exhibition, Making Room, that includes my work at the Institute Library in New Haven, CT. The exhibition was curated by Suzan Shutan and is up through this Saturday, 11/3.
Read the full review here:
http://www.joannemattera.blogspot.com/2012/10/making-room-in-new-haven.html
and the excerpt where she discusses my contribution to the exhibition:
“Continuing our view of that wall, we come to a grid of nine Tyvek rectangles by Debra Ramsay. Ramsay’s work is as conceptual as it is material. Here she has cut a square out of the rectangle, and a rectangle out of the cut square. The integrity of the nine larger rectangles is altered, but it is not violated. Indeed, in the way Ramsay has allowed positive to arise from negative, and vice versa, the whole is equal to more than the sum of its parts.”
Suite of Love_ detail, installed at the Institute Library, New Haven, CT for the exhibition Making Room.
posted October 31, 2012 | Comments (0)| Tags: Debra Ramsay, Institute Library, Joanne Mattera, Making Room, Suzan Shutan
My Double Header* Weekend
Saturday October 6th
Sports have never found their way into my heart, but when telling a friend recently that I had two shows opening on the same day…she used this term*. Sports terminology aside…here are the details, I hope you might be able to join me at one, the other…or both:
Making Room :: Ten Interpretations
Love_5 , Tyvek, acrylic, 19 in x 12 in, 2012
Ten contemporary artists integrate their work into a 186 year-old space, emphasizing historic integrity while exploring new connections. The artwork exists between two and three dimensions, is site-specific and responds to the issues of material ingenuity, color, architecture and reductivist aesthetics.
Curated by Suzan Shutan :: October 6 through November 3, 2012
Reception on October 6, Noon until 2pm
The Institute Library . 847 Chapel Street . New Haven, CT :: M – F 10:00 to 6:00 Saturday 11:00 to 2:00
Encaustic Works 12 :: Invitational Exhibition
Measuring Parallels 45, wax, eggshell, ink, on birch panel, 10 in, 2011
This exhibition celebrates the release of Encaustic Works 2012: A Biennial Exhibition in Print selected by Joanne Mattera and published by R&F Handmade Paints.
This exhibition will highlight 14 of the 50 artists that are included in the publication.
Reception on October 6, 5 -7 pm
The Gallery at R&F. 84 Ten Broeck Ave. Kingston, NY M – Sa 10am – 5pm. (845) 331-3112
posted October 03, 2012 | Comments (0)| Tags: Debra Ramsay, Encaustic Works 2012, Institute Library, Making Room, R&F Handmade Paints
Color: Field + Form*
I’m pleased that Joanne Mattera, the eponymous author of the popular blog Joanne Mattera Art Blog has written about my recent solo exhibition. You may view the blog post here.
Want to peruse images of the Desire Line paintings in that show? click here
Odd Days, 6 in x 6 in x 1 in, wax on MDF, 2012
*Color: Field + Form is the blog title