Curious Days
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Opening Reception January 23rd, 2021 4pm-6pm
Closing Reception February 20th, 2021 4pm-6pm Show runs from - January 23rd, 2021 - February 20th, 2021 |
Virtual Opening Reception - (recorded 1/23/2021)
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Artist - Ram Brisueño
Statement
The work in Curious Days travels a surreal perspective of transformation, color, and myth. Scraps of paper and images change when collaged and become other forms that bring out stories and myths from imagination and dreams.
An intuitive approach allows work to be scraped, scribbled, and layered, opening a door into a curious world, tumbling like Alice, a dreamlike story and, like a child, you want to see more.
I am a poet with his face in his hand moving colors cross stanzas. My first love was an encyclopedia. I would seek out one tale of Greek Gods, to another myth, another story. Zeus transforms into a swan, Narcissus becomes a flower, the minotaur dances in a maze. My surreal portraitures are the ones who greet me, comfort me, scare me and surprise me, and are a joy and a blessing.
I share Curious Days as a way to heal in these challenging days, where we can still go on with life and its beauty, wonder, and imagination that awaits us.
An intuitive approach allows work to be scraped, scribbled, and layered, opening a door into a curious world, tumbling like Alice, a dreamlike story and, like a child, you want to see more.
I am a poet with his face in his hand moving colors cross stanzas. My first love was an encyclopedia. I would seek out one tale of Greek Gods, to another myth, another story. Zeus transforms into a swan, Narcissus becomes a flower, the minotaur dances in a maze. My surreal portraitures are the ones who greet me, comfort me, scare me and surprise me, and are a joy and a blessing.
I share Curious Days as a way to heal in these challenging days, where we can still go on with life and its beauty, wonder, and imagination that awaits us.
Biography
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Ram Brisueño is a Baltimore based, self taught artist with a degree in English from UMBC (1993). In 2000 he took his poetry and began painting around, and literally on them. Ram considers himself a collagist focusing on form, color, and stories within his paintings using acrylics, watercolors, found objects and mixed media in a collage of styles, textures, and sculptural objects and details layered within unique and hidden narratives. An almost surreal perspective between material and transformations that play in stories and dreams.
Ram has lived in New York, but currently lives in Baltimore where he has been showing his work in a number of galleries, venues. His work is collected throughout the region. |