Office of Loss Control: Armando Ramos and Stephanie Washburn
OFFICE OF LOSS CONTROL:
Armando Ramos and Stephanie Washburn
January 27- April 7, 2017
Reception: Friday, January 27, 5pm-7pm
Artist Talks in Physical Science Building, Room 101
Santa Barbara, CA—The Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College is pleased to present Office of Loss Control, an exhibit featuring the Art Department’s two new faculty members, Armando Ramos and Stephanie Washburn. Although they work in different media, Ramos and Washburn both scratch the veneer of contemporary life through the pointed, and often darkly humorous, combination of images appropriated from popular culture and media. The show opens with a reception for artists on Friday, January 27 from 5pm-7pm and continues through March 24, 2017. Armando Ramos will talk about his work on Wednesday, March 8. Stephanie Washburn will discuss hers on Wednesday, March 22. Both lectures will held at 4:30pm in the Physical Science Building Room 101. Exhibit and related events are free and open to the public.
Armando Ramos is an artist and designer who creates comically irreverent images drawn from his jumbled youth. In his work, pop culture, mass media, religious iconography, and quotidian observations are civilly canonized as high-relief sculptures, minimalist interventions, and absurd juxtapositions that question the largeness of these larger-than-life embodiments. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and graduate studies at Montana State University. Ramos has been an artist in residence at The Richard Cartier Studios, Napa, CA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and at California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Studio Couture, Detroit, MI; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI; and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
Stephanie Washburn works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and video. Her work explores the relationship between an image, its materiality, and the psychology and body of a viewer. Recent projects use the flat screen as a support for various physical and performative gestures. She then documents, as either photographs or video, resulting combinations of material and digital information, posing a real physicality as the dramatic player in both the digital spectacle and her own hybrid image making. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; Claremont University, Claremont, CA; and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in various collections including MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
IMAGES
Armando Ramos, Portrait of Puissance, porcelain and thread
Stephanie Washburn, from Congratulations, You've Made A Wonderful Decision series, digital print
Reception: Friday, January 27, 5pm-7pm
Artist Talks in Physical Science Building, Room 101
- Armando Ramos, Wednesday, March 8, 4:30pm
- Stephanie Washburn, Wednesday, March 22, 4:30pm
Santa Barbara, CA—The Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College is pleased to present Office of Loss Control, an exhibit featuring the Art Department’s two new faculty members, Armando Ramos and Stephanie Washburn. Although they work in different media, Ramos and Washburn both scratch the veneer of contemporary life through the pointed, and often darkly humorous, combination of images appropriated from popular culture and media. The show opens with a reception for artists on Friday, January 27 from 5pm-7pm and continues through March 24, 2017. Armando Ramos will talk about his work on Wednesday, March 8. Stephanie Washburn will discuss hers on Wednesday, March 22. Both lectures will held at 4:30pm in the Physical Science Building Room 101. Exhibit and related events are free and open to the public.
Armando Ramos is an artist and designer who creates comically irreverent images drawn from his jumbled youth. In his work, pop culture, mass media, religious iconography, and quotidian observations are civilly canonized as high-relief sculptures, minimalist interventions, and absurd juxtapositions that question the largeness of these larger-than-life embodiments. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and graduate studies at Montana State University. Ramos has been an artist in residence at The Richard Cartier Studios, Napa, CA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and at California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Studio Couture, Detroit, MI; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI; and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
Stephanie Washburn works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and video. Her work explores the relationship between an image, its materiality, and the psychology and body of a viewer. Recent projects use the flat screen as a support for various physical and performative gestures. She then documents, as either photographs or video, resulting combinations of material and digital information, posing a real physicality as the dramatic player in both the digital spectacle and her own hybrid image making. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; Claremont University, Claremont, CA; and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in various collections including MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
IMAGES
Armando Ramos, Portrait of Puissance, porcelain and thread
Stephanie Washburn, from Congratulations, You've Made A Wonderful Decision series, digital print