Vibrant and witty, layered and textured, she combines large gesture with tight pattern to create compositions that at once mimic the grand heroic gestures of the postwar painters, while capturing an all - over free spirit found in the graffiti that appears daily on the streets near her Bushwick studio. (nortemaar.org)
Often through exuberant work that engaged with heroic gesture or pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting and offered a new interpretation of abstraction. (widewalls.ch)
As material metaphors of history, Ramirez Jonas» works can be seen as failed heroic gestures, attempting to reveal the mechanics of time, while calling into question the possibility of a unified system of knowledge. (momaps1.org)