{"id":63512,"date":"2024-11-25T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=63512"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:52:08","slug":"latina-artist-adriana-raquel-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/latina-artist-adriana-raquel-ramirez\/","title":{"rendered":"This Bay Area artist is embracing her Mexican roots \u2014 in all its complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adriana Raquel Ramirez\u2019s self-portrait portrays her in a large, black, luxury gown \u2014 not because she generally wears such attire, but because it symbolizes what was desirable, but also financially out of reach while growing up. In the background, familiar images: her grandmother\u2019s apartment, a taco truck logo, and the car that remained in the driveway for years because her father never had the money to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These tangible memories juxtaposed with the gown sparks the question: what makes us who we are? The self-portrait, painted with oil sticks and pastel, also offers a potential response: For the truest portraits, our longings, dreams, and what could have been, have to be included alongside the material realities of what was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez\u2019s work focuses on portraits that engage questions of identity. For a while, Ramirez was resistant to integrating her Mexican heritage in the creative process, and was wary of creating work that seemed \u201ctoo Mexican,\u201d when she didn\u2019t want to be pigeonholed. While studying at Berkeley, Ramirez said she felt as if she didn\u2019t know the \u201cright\u201d way to do or say something in a manner that would meld seamlessly with those around her.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=360%2C480&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=360%2C480&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=188%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=900%2C1200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=600%2C800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=450%2C600&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=300%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=150%2C200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?resize=400%2C533&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_2571.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Photo: Adriana Raquel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over time, her views changed. She changed. What once felt like pushing her heritage aside to blend in began to feel like erasure. It is now her Mexican heritage, in all its complexity as someone of mixed background, that she is embracing. \u201cIt\u2019s messy,\u201d she says. But what is honest often is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez grew up in the East Bay, yet has always felt at home in the Mission District, with its strong Latinx roots. \u201cComfortable, safe, and connected,\u201d are the descriptors that first come to mind for her when walking 24th St. and surrounding corridors. \u201cThe sights, smells, sounds, everything,\u201d it is hundreds of details tangible and not, which make up the feel of a neighborhood which is home not just to individuals, but where the sense of community spans generations, where it is about family and culture in the most robust senses of the words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez\u2019s artistic process has gone through multiple phases. Studying at Berkeley, she decided to major in rhetoric instead of art in order to further develop the concepts she wanted to engage through her artistic expression. During the pandemic, she moved in with her mom and sister to an apartment in the Richmond area. But when her family moved out, and it was a challenging time to find a new housemate due to the pandemic, Ramirez instead covered the walls with raw canvas and began to paint. When they were filled, she gessoed over them and started again. Through iteration after iteration, she began to develop a stronger sense of her style, message, and distinctive creative process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=396%2C480&#038;quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=396%2C480&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 396w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=206%2C250&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=768%2C930&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=846%2C1024&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 846w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?resize=400%2C484&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-2.48.19%E2%80%AFPM.png?w=900&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Photo: Adriana Raquel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Her art invites us to reconsider how we define identity \u2014 our own and others.. \u201cPeople love to define,\u201d said Ramirez, but identity is fluid and complex. As soon as we think we understand, it is almost assured that we don\u2019t. Her art work invites us to look more closely at how we define someone at an individual level, but also connects to broader questions of how we identify place and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work doesn\u2019t tell anyone what to replace their assumptions with, but part of the message is to expose the very process of assumption making. Ramirez comments on the often-fixed nature of our own perceptions, which can fail to allow room for differences in interpretation. Even if an identity fits on a given day, \u201cthe next day it could be something new.\u201d Ramirez talks about a similar phenomenon in our proclivity to identify with certain material things \u2014 a seeming paradox in that there can be a great joy in associating ourselves with things in our home contexts, \u201cthings we connect to and find beauty within.\u201d And at the same time, we as individuals, and the things in our contexts, are alive and constantly changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez\u2019s work has ranged from highly abstract to more realist, and she is now looking to fuse the styles. It seems what is most true often comes from the place where the lines aren\u2019t always clean and neat, but where there is an interplay of colors, emotions, and simultaneous realities. It lies in the taco trucks that were real, the luxury black dresses that weren\u2019t and the car that never did get fixed.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adriana Raquel Ramirez\u2019s work was recently featured in the Juan R. Fuentes Gallery at Acci\u00f3n Latina, the nonprofit home of the El Tecolote newsroom. Find upcoming gallery shows at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/art-shows\"><em>eltecolote.org\/art-shows<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay Area artist Adriana Raquel Ramirez explores the complexities of her Mexican heritage through self-portraits that challenge fixed ideas of identity and 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