{"id":1305,"date":"2009-11-21T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/kristen_t_ramirez\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:21:23","slug":"kristen_t_ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/kristen_t_ramirez.html","title":{"rendered":"Kristen T. Ramirez: ALL-WAYS WARM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s Aurora Avenue and other gateways to marginalized blight have their own poet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristenramirez.com\/\">Kristen T. Ramirez<\/a> makes these no-exit avenues of cheap dreams new again. She mines the noisy collision of mid-20th Century textures, colors, styles and cultural contrasts found in America. Ranch-style gas stations, the curving arrows beckoning you in, the birds on phone wires, the invitations to eat cheap, sleep in easy reach of a TV and buy a beater car become a survivalist&#8217;s manual for a people&#8217;s art form.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KristenRamirezwarm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/KristenRamirezwarm.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"242\" width=\"380\" \/>Her collages are her signature, but not her only one. Advertising in other contexts becomes less benign.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kristenraminrezschol.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kristenraminrezschol.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"382\" width=\"396\" \/>Incised into bottles are messages pulled from the country&#8217;s vast stash of cliches: Up and at &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kristenramirezbottles.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kristenramirezbottles.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/>Ramirez&#8217;s <i>Ghosts of Commerce Past<\/i> is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greygalleryandlounge.com\/gallery\/\">Grey Gallery<\/a> through Dec. 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle&#8217;s Aurora Avenue and other gateways to marginalized blight have their own poet. Kristen T. Ramirez makes these no-exit avenues of cheap dreams new again. She mines the noisy collision of mid-20th Century textures, colors, styles and cultural contrasts found in America. Ranch-style gas stations, the curving arrows beckoning you in, the birds on phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}