Richard Ramsdell
American artist (born 1957)
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Richard Ramsdell (born 1957) is an American artist working primarily with the assemblage and re-appropriation of photographs and paintings.
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| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) Gloversville, New York, U.S. |
| Website | studioramsdell |
Early life and education
Ramsdell was born in Gloversville, New York.[1]
Career
By 1994, Ramsdell had received a Southeastern NEA grant for his work.[2] He received a 1995 NEA fellowship from the Southern Arts Federation.[3]
Style
At first working in black and white, Ramsdell later created larger pieces with color photography and Photoshop.[4] In 1994, Sarasota Magazine described Ramsdell's art as "large scale, photo-based pieces from found images which address contemporary social issues"[5] and as "works of photo-collage incorporating words and symbols".[2] In 2000, Carolina Arts noted that Ramsdell "has chosen to work in a way that emphasizes the role of the computer in [his] photography, despite the fact that manipulation of images in the computer can be done in a manner that is almost undetectable".[6]
His piece "Number 11, 1996", exhibited at Featuring Florida '96, "consists of almost 400 sheets of paper, 8-by-11 inches, printed on a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1600 printer in color and arranged to represent a man in a business suit from the waist down, as if to say the heart and head are no longer needed in the world of computers".[7] Another piece, "1995-27", exhibited at Featuring Florida '98, is "a 20-foot-wide photo assemblage of a falling figure, an upside-down church and dental X-rays into one ink-jet print".[8]
Personal life
Exhibitions
Solo
- Statements (Southeast Museum of Photography, May-June 1993)[9]
- Innuendo (Southeast Museum of Photography, 1994)[10]
- Richard Ramsdell (Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, 1995)[11]
Group
- Perspective Perspective (Florida Center for Contemporary Art, 1988)[12]
- Featuring Florida '96 (Ringling Museum of Art, 1996)[7]
- Featuring Florida '98 (Ringling Museum of Art, 1998)[8]
- USF Art Department Faculty & Alumni Exhibition (University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 1999)[13]
- Making Pictures (Asheville Art Museum, 2000)[6]
- 2025 Regional Art Exhibition (Roberson Museum, 2025)[1]