SPIN (orange)
Object Details
- Date
- 2009
- Artist
- Paul Henry Ramirez, born El Paso, TX 1963
- Exhibition Label
- Ramirez’s painting activates biomorphic forms within the tight confines of a square canvas. The dark rounded shapes that push against the colorful orange edges suggest mutating cells, breasts, buttocks and other sensual zones. The implied movement is further intensified when this painting – which is mounted on a turntable – is allowed to spin. The effect is to inject a kind of playful sexual nuance into an otherwise abstract mode of representation.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Topic
- Abstract
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © 2009, Paul Henry Ramirez
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 2011.11.3A-B
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- screenprint on linen canvas with rotating wall-mount armature
- Dimensions
- 44 x 44 in. (111.9 x 111.9 cm)
- Record ID
- saam_2011.11.3A-B
