Paul Henry Ramirez's "Playconics 4" 2011 via Galerie Richard
During its 21-year history Paris’ Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard has been a platform for emerging and mid-career artists to blossom. Last Thursday the gallery opened its New York branch. With a shortened name, Galerie Richard's inaugural event was a well-attended opening for Paul Henry Ramirez’s first solo exhibition in four years, PLAYCONICS.
The artist describes his paintings as “biogeomorphic abstractions.” The cartoonish, geometric paintings look like a multi-colored lava lamp of sexual anatomy. They have an animated quality as the abstract innuendos morph and flow towards and away from each other. The clear and perfect lines give the impression that Ramirez is illustrating the physics of some alternate world.
Be sure to ask for gloves in order to participate in the interactive TIPSY paintings, a selection of works that are rigged up so the viewer may spin the canvasses to view different compositions of the abstractions.
PLAYCONICS is on view at Galerie Richard in Chelsea until October 15th.
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