PERCENT FOR ART COMMISION: GOING UP, UP, UP

PAUL HENRY RAMIREZ Going Up, Up, Up
Medium: Aluminum and Urethane Paint, cut aluminum 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2 inches thick, spacer stacked and mounted to a 1/2-inch thick aluminum plate. Sculptural relief dimensions: approx. 9'x24’x3”
PERCENT for ART 2005 P.S. 254 84-40 101st Street, Rchmond Hill, Queens

Paul Henry Ramirez's installation at P.S. 254 possesses the vibrant colors and bold forms that are characteristic of his signature style. In this work, he combines flat wall painting with multi-dimensional colored round aluminum and mounting of shapes varied in thickness, cut out of aluminum. The crisp white background accentuates the depth created by the attached, organic forms and assures the vibrancy of their tones, painted in a combination of flat and high gloss, with bright multi-color finishes.

This exuberant composition embraces the school community in a joyous environment and creates an atmosphere of fun and laughter, at the entrance.

About the Artist...
Paul Henry Ramirez's works are provocative, sensuous and surreal. Imagery in both his paintings and installations is injected with a biomorphic sensibility that is derived from Ramirez's interest in transcending both internal and external elements of the human body and transforming them into a fresh language of literal and symbolic form. In his site-specific installations, Paul Henry Ramirez approaches architectural space as an empty canvas in which he pushes paint into the constraints of a volume of space. Mr. Ramirez presented a one-person exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris in the summer of 2002. His work has appeared on the covers of Art Papers and Smock magazine and has been reviewed in, among others, The New York Times, Art in America, ArtForum, Flash Art, Time Out New York, New Art Examiner, Art Papers, The Village Voice and The Cincinnati Enquirer.