A few weeks ago I went to the American Folk Art Museum in NYC to check out the Henry Darger paintings and was engulfed by the MARTÍN RAMÍREZ exhibit, which was extended through May 13. They had a book on display that I was thinking of checking out and here it is:by Brooke Davis Anderson, Victor Espinosa, Kristin Espinosa, and Daniel Baumann
About the artist:
Martín Ramírez (1895–1963) created nearly 300 drawings of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power within the confines of DeWitt State Hospital in northern California, where he resided the last 15 years of his life. Ramírez has been codified primarily as a “schizophrenic artist”; this project promises to go beyond the boundaries of Ramírez’s diagnosis of mental illness and consider the artistic quality and merit of his artwork.
