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Gustavo Ramos Rivera
"Untitled #1" Large mixed media

c.1990

About the Item

This artwork "Untitled #1" c.1990, is a large mixed media on paper by noted Mexican/American artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera, b.1940. It is hand signed and numbered E.V. 1/2 in pencil by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 24 x 32.25 inches, sheet size is 35 x 47.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Gustavo Ramos Rivera (b. 1940-) is an abstract painter. Through his use of color and a personal symbology, Ramos Rivera has created a language that is written throughout his paintings, monotypes, and collages. This singular expression functions on both an intellectual and emotional level and its deployment is reminiscent of the work of Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and Cy Twombly.(1) It also harkens back to the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and architecture of Ramos Rivera's native Mexico. Like his signage, the colors floating on Ramos Rivera's canvases reference his cultural past while remaining grounded in his present day environment. His work follows the thread of 20th-century Mexican painting from Rufino Tamayo to Francisco Toledo, melding this tradition with that represented by San Francisco Bay Area abstract painters Frank Lobdell, Manuel Neri, and Richard Diebenkorn. Ramos Rivera's work has evolved over the past three decades; the dark, tar-laden canvases of the 1980s represent internal states of mind more so than his later works. In the 1990s, Ramos Rivera began working with color fields punctuated by simple hieroglyphics. Over time, he has broken down these fields and is now juxtaposing large areas of laid color to create images that radiate sensation. Gustavo Ramos Rivera was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He has lived in San Francisco for over 30 years. In 1992 he received a Fleishacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship. A retrospective exhibition of Ramos Rivera's paintings and works on paper was held at the Ex-Convento del Carmen in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2005, and traveled to other venues in Mexico. In January 2006, the San Jose Museum of Art held a retrospective exhibition of paintings, with companion exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and other venues, which will tour to the Fresno Art Museum in the summer of 2006. A comprehensive monograph on the artist was published by the San Jose Museum of Art in 2005. Selected Exhibitions • 2020 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (Thiebaud Anniversary exhibit) • 2019 Eaglesmith Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (solo) • 2018 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (20th anniversary exhibit) • 2018 Whitney Modern, Los Gatos, CA (group show) • 2017 Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) • 2017 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 2017 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (group sculpture exhibit) • 2016 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo) • 2015 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 2013 Elins Eagle-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 2012 Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (solo) • 2006 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (solo) • 2006 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (solo) • 2005 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 2005 Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico. Travel: Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas (solo) • 2004 Galerie Dionisi, Hollywood, CA (solo) • 2004 The Monotype Marathon," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA • 1999 The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. Travels to de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA • 1999 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 1998 Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA (solo) • 1996 Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) • 1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 1994 Wilfred Von Guten Galerie, Thun, Switzerland (solo) • 1994 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 1993 Galerie Rahn, Zurich, Switzerland • 1993 12 Bay Area Painters Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA • 1993 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 1993 Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) • 1991 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile • 1991 Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA • 1991 Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY, The Painted Monotype • 1991 Margulis Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL (solo) • 1991 Absence of Proof, Somar Gallery Space, San Francisco, CA • 1990 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile • 1990 Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA • 1990 The Painted Monotype, Joan Prats Gallery, New York, NY • 1989 Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL • 1988 Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, traveling exhibition to Asia, by World Print, San Francisco, CA • 1988 Mano a Mano, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California, Santa Cruz and Oakland, CA • 1986 Art After Eden: An Unnatural Perspective, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA • 1986 Alas y Raices, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA • 1985 Mexico: The New Generations, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX • 1985 Latin American Paining Today, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA • 1985 Meridian: Art of the Americas, Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA Collections • Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts • Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA • DeYoung, San Francisco, CA • De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA • Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI • Jonathan Logan Family Foundation • The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA • Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA • Museu De Arte Assis Chateaubriand, da Universidad de Paraiba, Brazil. • Museo Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. • Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV • Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ • San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA • San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA • Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ • Stanford University Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA • Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Palo Alto, CA • Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA Literature 1996 Acosta, Juvenal. "Gustavo Ramos Rivera," Galerie Rahn, Zurich,Switzerland (exhibition catalogue). 1991 Santamaria, Guillermo. Eight Contemporary Mexican Artists, Mexico City, Mexico (exhibition catalogue). 1984 Del Conde, Teresa. "The New Generations,"Mexico (exhibition catalogue).
  • Creator:
    Gustavo Ramos Rivera (1940, American, Mexican)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1990
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 47.25 in (120.02 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: riv/unt/011stDibs: LU666315649262

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