Martin Ramirez: Three Perspectives (pt 1)

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to be the only West Coast venue for the critically acclaimed exhibition Martin Ramirez. The exhibition runs from June 9 - September 9, 2007. In this podcast Martin Ramirez: Three Perspectives, we speak with three people closely associated with this exhibition.

Brooke Davis Anderson is the director and curator of The Contemporary Center of the American Folk Art Museum in New York and was responsible for organizing the Martin Ramirez exhibiton.

Kristin Espinosa, sociologist, researched the life and recorded the biography of Martin Ramirez.

And Matt Pasto is the son of Tarmo Pasto, the artist and psychologist, who was responsible for discovering and encouraging the work of Martin Ramirez.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• san
• jose
• museum
• art
• martin
• ramirez

[RedMudPainter]

Maybe he just wanted to be a train engineer and not be in an institution...that is less romantic,but it makes more sense to me.Great art is like a puzzle where none of the pieces fit together,but you try anyway... forever.

Nice videos-

Georgia Red Mud Painter