Humberto Ramirez

Humbert Ramirez is a self-taught artist who explores the characteristics of human nature through his paintings. He narrates his ideas with densely layered and technical applications of paint. Ramirez believes there is something that connects us through how we move through the world – migration, travel, exploration. His compositions are often natural settings containing solitary figures, or made-up memories of a different time. He brings visual allegory to his family’s transborder experience between Jalisco, Mexico and Redwood City, California. Visions of harmonic reciprocity flood his canvases: Protective figures standing over a landscape, bodily postures mimicking trees blowing in the wind; the same brush stroke is carried from landscape to figure, creating a lively, uniform connection between the two. His energetic brush work and experimental use of color resonate remotely with a Gauguinesque sensibility, while sharing stories from a very personal and contemporary time. Influenced by the natural landscapes where he was born and raised in Northern California, Ramirez uses the language of paint as a central focus of his practice.

Humberto Ramirez (b. 1987 in Redwood City, CA) lives and works in Moss Beach, CA. He is a self-taught artist. His work has been featured in a group show at Delaplane (San Francisco, CA), alongside Jeffrey Cheung at Jack Hanley Gallery (New York, NY), and Johansson Projects (Oakland, Ca).

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