A Field Guide to Birds opens at the Garrison Art Center on April 13th, 2024
April 13 – May 5, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2024, 5 - 7 pm Artist Talk: May 5, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Together, these paintings by Debra Ramsay and Leslie Roberts constitute an unconventional field guide to birds. Each of Ramsay’s reductive compositions on translucent slabs captures the plumage colors of a single bird species. Ramsay and Roberts translate ornithological data into sensory experiences that parallel their avian subjects' vivid color and kinetic delicacy.
Roberts’s panels hold written lists of bird families or species, organized by color or habitat, and diagrammed into pattern-like formations.
For Debra Ramsay's paintings, printed QR codes are available, allowing viewers to listen to recordings of the sounds of each bird, and to view photographs of it. These auditory and pictorial resources add extra sensory layers to visitors' experience of this work.
Circumstance of Air, a solo exhibition at Starr Suites
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
February 10 – March 17, 2024
Opening reception Saturday, February 10, 6-8pm
Starr Suites is pleased to present ‘Circumstance of Air’, an exhibition of new and selected work by New York-based artist Debra Ramsay opening Saturday, February 10 and running through Sunday, March 17, 2024.
This exhibition presents selections from Ramsay’s ongoing, ‘Migration’ series, in which time is measured by documenting the plumage colors of birds encountered migrating through Central Park, NY. Rendered on translucent acrylic panels and displayed freestanding on laminated shelves, the works serve as altar-like objects of devotion- indexing and embodying temporal and spatial passage, perceptual shift and a personal experience of the natural world. Seen collectively, they map an abstracted tour through the artist’s immersive engagement in aviary lifestyles.
Debra Ramsay (b. Hudson, NY) is an artist living and working in New York City. She earned her BA from Brooklyn College, NY. Ramsay has exhibited her work internationally for over three decades, including in Denmark, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. Solo exhibitions in the United States include the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ, 2024, Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY, Brattleboro Museum in Brattleboro, VT, 2017; Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, and 57 W 57th Arts, NY, 2016. Additional recent exhibitions include Field Guide to Birds at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2024, Mere Reflection at Marquee Projects, Bellport, NY, 2022, in 2021: Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, (de)coding at the Visual Arts Center of NJ and Embody at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art in New Haven. The Center for Humans and Nature Press will digitally publish Ramsay’s The Nature of Time, One Year of Bird Migrations in the spring, of 2024.
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