Eric Ramos Guerrero is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City whose work investigates The West through landscapes of suburban California, the US/Mexican border and the tropical spaces of western expansion. Eric exhibits work internationally, including The Drawing Center NY, El Museo De Barrio NY, The Knockdown Center NY, Beaux Arts FR, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, White Box NY, ICPNY, Inside-Out Museum Beijing, Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery Belgium, and Green Papaya Philippines. Eric has been a resident artist at The Drawing Center, Marble House Project Residency, and Triangle Arts Organization. He received his MFA from Columbia University, BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from San Diego State University.
Eric Ramos Guerrero’s artistic practice are rooted in the landscapes of suburban California, the US/Mexican border and the tropical spaces of western expansion through the depiction of it’s deterioration and nature’s reclamation as experienced by it’s inhabitants. Rather than utopian backyard pools tinted in pastel Ramos Guerrero’s interest is in the drained backyard pools worthy of skateboarding, spray painted and trimmed with dead grass. Foreclosed homes illegally trespassed, cinder block walls lined with broken glass, chainlink fences interwoven with overgrowth.
Ramos Guerrero considers the detritus of the West as a place where cultural unrest endures and returns to the viewer as glimpses; things half seen between the foliage of an obstructed beach view or as a weak radio signal emerging through the static. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, video and performance, Ramos Guerrero mines both the fluidity of multiculturalism, and our romanticism of the exotic to propose alternate histories and possible futures.
