Autumn Ramsey is an idiosyncratic artist whose paintings possess an intimate sense of revelation. Embracing traditional pictorial structure combined with personal preferences, psychological insights and poetic feeling, Ramsey's work has an intelligence that is phenomenal in its understanding of what works in a painting and in the viewer's experience of it. Her work has an uncanny sense of recognizing this as well as the point at which visual flourishes often demand something awkward or seemingly incomplete in order to find fulfillment. This balancing of different aspects of understanding, of different intelligences, defines her practice. She will at times push a figure to the edge of the canvas as if it's running out of room. Sometimes she directs the gaze elsewhere, giving the work an ethereal quality that exceeds a simple understanding and instead addresses experience in its broadest terms. Ramsey paints less from objective observation so much as she brings her imagination into play. We tend to think of dreams and the imagined as being less real and believe waking moments to be reality. Marked by self-reflection, Ramsey's work explores the complicated play between these varied recognitions of being in each of us as well as our desire to realize our nature in a way that we sense is shared but often challenges description.

Crèvecoeur

Chicago

Shenzhen

Frankfurt am Main

Neue Alte Brücke

Los Angeles

Park View / Paul Soto

Mexico City

Kurimanzutto

Brussels

Mendes Wood Dm

San Francisco

Jessica Silverman

New York City

Lyles & King

Brennan & Griffin

Berlin

Tanya Leighton

Simone Subal Gallery

Bodega

Milwaukee

The Green

Swiss Institute

Paris

Musée D'Art Moderne De Paris

Autumn Ramsey

School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (Saic)

Flutter

The Pleasure of Drift