Undying Gardens
Opening Reception October 31st, 2026 4pm-6pm
Show runs from -
October 31st, 2026 - December 05th, 2026
Spirits make me a flower, 14" x 11", 2025, Collage acrylics, found papers, fabric and wire on canvas
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. His work has been exhibited in collections, galleries and museums through the region. |
Statement
Identity. There’s a tension around us, around it. Who we are and want to be. Who we get to be. A tension around how we are seen. Around who controls our narrative. Who controls our story.
"Identity politics becomes a mask we wear. Remove it and we can reveal our honest self and share what makes us human. “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without…” as James Baldwin wrote, “...and know we cannot live with.” undying gardens (search for an honest man) is my way of letting go of false masks, of negativity from childhood trauma, from the stigma of racism, gender and sexual identity abuse, aiming to reveal and present an authentic self. I am determined to share the stories we dream and will into being through being who we are. How beautiful this world can be, how wonderful each and all of us can be."
In my work, flowers bloom from, out of, and surrounding human figures, representing the halo like presence of our best and intended selves. Enveloped who we dream into being, our divinity and connection with nature and our own humanity, we are reminded we are part of more than just ourselves. We can be beautiful, weird, different… it's all a wonderful and joyous part of our journey. With the hard work and trust in our nature, the time we put into our lives, we can grow into what we dream. The blossom-being selves work on the chaos around us, engaging the power of creation that exists in all of us, allowing us to become more aware of our shared beauty and radiant humanity. In these moments, we allow ourselves to be any and everything our true selves require.
Using mixed media materials, I create images that combine nature, social issues, and the human figure with intuitive color, shape and form, often in moments of all important transformation and myth making — one senses the blossom petals fall in undying gardens. My collage “Spirits make me a flower” mixes acrylics, fabric, wire, feathers and recycled papers to create a mask similar to cultural mask but indigenous to the my dreamscapes. Ceremony breathes through this mask with purpose and beauty.
"Identity politics becomes a mask we wear. Remove it and we can reveal our honest self and share what makes us human. “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without…” as James Baldwin wrote, “...and know we cannot live with.” undying gardens (search for an honest man) is my way of letting go of false masks, of negativity from childhood trauma, from the stigma of racism, gender and sexual identity abuse, aiming to reveal and present an authentic self. I am determined to share the stories we dream and will into being through being who we are. How beautiful this world can be, how wonderful each and all of us can be."
In my work, flowers bloom from, out of, and surrounding human figures, representing the halo like presence of our best and intended selves. Enveloped who we dream into being, our divinity and connection with nature and our own humanity, we are reminded we are part of more than just ourselves. We can be beautiful, weird, different… it's all a wonderful and joyous part of our journey. With the hard work and trust in our nature, the time we put into our lives, we can grow into what we dream. The blossom-being selves work on the chaos around us, engaging the power of creation that exists in all of us, allowing us to become more aware of our shared beauty and radiant humanity. In these moments, we allow ourselves to be any and everything our true selves require.
Using mixed media materials, I create images that combine nature, social issues, and the human figure with intuitive color, shape and form, often in moments of all important transformation and myth making — one senses the blossom petals fall in undying gardens. My collage “Spirits make me a flower” mixes acrylics, fabric, wire, feathers and recycled papers to create a mask similar to cultural mask but indigenous to the my dreamscapes. Ceremony breathes through this mask with purpose and beauty.