WILLY RAMOS

June 13 - July 6, 2024

WILLY RAMOS EXHIBITION

OPENING RECEPTION

Thursday, June 13th from 5-8 pm

WILLY RAMOS evokes beauty in his paintings. They are light, buoyant, absorbent, and contagious. They are paintings that we want to see and to enjoy over and over. Like the first chord of flamenco, we feel the pulse of his sympathetic vision, the lightness of his stroke. We feel an immediate sensory contact with his tactile surfaces. Whether Ramos paints the figure, a bouquet of flowers, a bustling cityscape, or an abstract composition, his colours are vibrant, his brushstrokes are deliberate, and his light is pervasive. Ramos is an artist who indulges himself in a painting. What we feel from his painting is related to how we remember what is most simple and most significant. In front of the artist’s impression of this botanic garden, we may recall a perception that is our own, a perception that blends into an array of colour, splendors of nature that shatter the light in the spectrum before the eye.

Ramos’ paintings provide the viewer with an excursion into the reality of joy. This feeling of joy relies on the hidden language of form and the simulation of nature. As with the Fauvist painters, everything is transformed by way of colour — invented colour, transposed colour, proverbial hues, and arrogant values that spill forth from the relentless strokes of his brush. To give attention to these paintings is an act of pleasure. Here resides the goal of Ramos!

Robert C. Morgan

(from Willy Ramos: Secrets of a Beauty)