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Bevan Ramsay Art

Canadian, b. 1977

Bevan Ramsay is a Canadian contemporary artist and sculptor, born in 1977. He completed his first post-graduate degree in Fine Arts, in 1994 and trained as a cabinet-maker and completed an apprenticeship in antique restoration. His artistic practice focuses on the dialogue between expectation and frustration, in which there can be no clear resolution. By exploring contradictory perspectives of a subject, his sculptures and installations do not seek unity, but rather admit paradox as a basic feature of human experience. He is a native of Montréal and is currently based in Norfolk, Connecticut.

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Artist: Bevan Ramsay
Two separate events (diptych)
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Porcelain, Glass, Wood

My father came over from England
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person Text by Edwin Janzen It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity. Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Plaster, Wood

Meat #4
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Meat #2
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Now look at Barack Obama and Bill Cosby
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person Text by Edwin Janzen It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity. Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

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Plaster

Trinity
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Following his first post-secondary degree in Fine Arts in 1994, he trained as a cabinet-maker and completed an apprenticeship in antique restoration. He was co-founder of a successfu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Talk to Me
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Stone, Metal

The Dance
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Bone China 8
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bone China emerged as a reflection on the relationship between synthetic and organic aesthetic properties. By fusing the two, Ramsay has attempted to create...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Foam, PVC, Lacquer, Paper, Mixed Media

Meat #3
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Meat #1
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

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Canvas, Oil

Bone China 4
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bone China emerged as a reflection on the relationship between synthetic and organic aesthetic properties. By fusing the two, Ramsay has attempted to create...
Category

2010s Contemporary Bevan Ramsay Art

Materials

Foam, PVC, Lacquer, Paper, Mixed Media

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You could tell he had the red spirit in him
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Beyond Sociology: The Act of Seeing a Person Text by Edwin Janzen It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc. The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity. Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods...
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By Bevan Ramsay
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Find a wide variety of authentic Bevan Ramsay art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of pink and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Bevan Ramsay in paint, plastic, oil paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Bevan Ramsay art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Don Frost, Paul Duval, and Clint Neufeld. Bevan Ramsay art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $950 and tops out at $8,300, while the average work can sell for $4,950.

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