{"id":724,"date":"2014-07-01T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2014-07-02T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T21:51:53","slug":"ramirez-aurie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/","title":{"rendered":"Page-Ramirez, Aurie"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_724'] = [\n{id: 911, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledGreenWomanwithGarter-copy-e1404323104337.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledGreenWomanwithGarter-copy-e1404323270903-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#911\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Aurie Ramirez<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i><\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Watercolor on paper<br\/>Gift of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland CA, 2014.6.6<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#911\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 910, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledGreenFigurewithStripedLollipops-copy.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledGreenFigurewithStripedLollipops-copy-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#910\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Aurie Ramirez<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i><\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Watercolor on paper<br\/>Gift of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland CA, 2014.6.1<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#910\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'},\n{id: 912, image: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledNudewithGreenRainbow-e1404337896993.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/RamirezAurie_UntitledNudewithGreenRainbow-215x215.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#912\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Aurie Ramirez<\/h1><h1><i>Untitled<\/i> <\/h1><p class=\"galleria-info-description\">Watercolor on paper<br\/>Gift of Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland CA, 2014.6.2<\/p><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/ramirez-aurie\/#912\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><strong>Aurie Ramirez<\/strong> (Filipino, b. 1962)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_449\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449  \" style=\"margin-top: -3px;margin-bottom: -3px\" alt=\"Aurie Ramirez, photo courtesy of Creative Growth\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Aurie-Creative-Growth-via-urbanoutfitters-250x245.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Aurie-Creative-Growth-via-urbanoutfitters-250x245.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Aurie-Creative-Growth-via-urbanoutfitters-305x300.jpg 305w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/facesandfigures\/files\/2014\/07\/Ramirez-Aurie-Creative-Growth-via-urbanoutfitters.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Creative Growth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Very little of Ram\u00edrez\u2019s life is known between her birth in the Philippines in 1962 and when she started working with Creative Growth, a well-known workshop and studio for artists with mental and developmental disabilities in Oakland, California, in the early 1980s. Never having mastered language, Ram\u00edrez is unable to speak about her past; instead she communicates her interests and desires through her paintings. Ram\u00edrez\u2019s early works reflect her interest in popular Goth culture, especially the popular television show The Adams Family and the rock band Kiss. Her more recent work has evolved into a quasi-Victorian, Venetian masquerade, Glam Rock, suburban milieu populated by androgynous and masked dandies.<\/p>\n<p>Two characters repeatedly appear in Ram\u00edrez\u2019s works: a red, clock-faced dandy and a green, masked woman, both in pinstriped attire. Her work often references sexual desire, the consumption of food, familial ties, and fantastical creatures vibrantly illustrated in whimsical spaces and suburban settings. 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