Raquel
September 29, 2022 thru
November 4, 2022
Featured image: Untitled 02
About the exhibition
Te Quiero Tía
Raquel’s recent work is focused on exposing the myth of self-identity as defined in a contemporary context: linear, superficial, and dependent on a persistent consumer culture. This has led her to portraiture as a means of celebrating individual experience, to focus on the good and bad, as a way of moving away from identity defined by material goods, pop media, and prejudice. At times her portraits are clear representations of people or past events; they are psychological landscapes of abstract memories. By working with family photos, this exhibit celebrates living family memories and the fluidity of living, existing acting as a call forward to witness the effect of time.
This collection of pieces on display are based on family photographs, who embody the legacy of love her aunt left behind. Her Aunt Rosa was the link that kept her family together and these paintings acknowledge that it is now the younger generation’s responsibility to do the same.
Raquel’s exhibition is on view from September 29th, 2022 – November 4th, 2022
About the artist
RAQUEL (Adriana Raquel Ramirez) was born, lives, and works in Oakland, California. In her work she grapples with the misuse of identity as it relates to race, gender, and sexuality with the intent to celebrate individual experience as a tool to expose the myth of self-identity. She uses oil paint and prioritizes not being trapped in one style of painting as a way of defying a canonistic approach to art making.
In 2018 she received her bachelor of arts in Rhetoric with a minor in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley.
Instagram: @adrianaraquelart
To learn more about their work please visit adrianaraquelart.com
A Ramp Gallery interview
Focusing on embracing, an interview with Raquel for The Ramp Gallery
Before we began our conversation, Raquel and I danced to GATÚBELA by Karol G. Her show in The Ramp Gallery is on view during our Dia De Los Muertos celebration and in this new body of work, Raquel honors the life of her Tía. She zoomed in from Sacramento, California, the dance helped us set the tone for a conversation on honoring grief with painting, embracing constant transformation and releasing expectations for the unknown. While Karol G set the stage with her song about yearning, for a brief moment Raquel shares with us the beauty in learning how to yearn.
Artwork in the show
Small case
Tía
Oil on canvas
16″ x 24″
2022
$200
Big case
Left to right
Untitled 01
Oil on canvas
2′ x 3′
2022
$350
Untitled 02
Oil on canvas
2′ x 3′
2022
$350
Untitled 03
Oil on canvas
2′ x 3′
2022
$350
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The Ramp Gallery is an artist-driven exhibition space at SOMArts that is currently accepting applications for four-week long solo and group shows. An opportunity for entrepreneurial artists to ramp up their careers by exhibiting at one of San Francisco’s most dynamic hubs for art and community, the high-visibility location of The Ramp Gallery is adjacent to the main entrance of SOMArts and open to all local artists in the Bay Area. To learn more about the space please visit, The Ramp Gallery.