LILY RAMIREZ

Simchowitz is pleased to present gallery artist Lily Ramirez’s first solo show, Furthest Thing, in our DTLA space (727 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021). Using thick, saturated hues of acrylic paint, Ramirez gesturally builds together lines and geometric calculations to illustrate maps and atlases of the city of Los Angeles. Ramirez’s lush, vibrant brush strokes create archaeological sites or pockets of the City on the canvas, a reanimation of personal memory crashing into the broader lived experiences of place—oftentimes painting a map to somewhere unknown. A Los Angeles native, Ramirez’s work is a confession of the city’s story alongside her own—a biography of the cold realism and warm comforts of living in a cityscape bound by its own expectations, a filter of placed and displaced memories, of interior and exterior, and the archive of the lives being lived within its limits. Ramirez’s painting practice has always hinged on her fascination with the paint. She began working in acrylics at a young age, experimenting alongside her father who supported her burgeoning practice. The pair travelled across the US, living briefly in Montana and Wyoming before re-settling in LA. Ramirez attended Otis College of Art and Design to study painting as an undergraduate, where she studied under artists Meg Cranston, Scott Grieger, and Soo Kim.