Caren Golden Fine Art is pleased to present real pretty simple innocent paintings, Paul Henry Ramirez’s second one person exhibition with the gallery.
In this current body of work Paul Henry Ramirez presents large scale canvases that function both as discrete paintings and as part of complex site specific installations. Continuing his vocabulary of sensuous and surreal imagery, Ramirez has injected bold geometric forms. The dichotomy between these formal elements and Ramirez’s signature liquid drips, hairy swirls and pools of color create a rhythmic tension on the surface.
Upon entering the gallery, the bold shapes in Ramirez’s work evoke a sense of pure spatial impact. The eye follows the motion of sweeping form and color. Details unfold; precise shapes, playful relationships and an explosion of dots evoke a visual cacophony. Are these paintings pretty, simple or complex, innocent or frankly suggestive?