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2015
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture : cement
59 x 33 x 27 cm 23.2 x 13 x 10.6 inch
$6,600
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Statuary hydrocal, mahogany and paint
It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc.
The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity.
Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods, are objects of fine craftsmanship, skillfully rendered and strikingly beautiful, and they permit us to reconsider these folks not through the screen of stereotypes or statistics, but as individuals, complicating our urge to pity. (Excerpt of a text by Edwin Jansen)
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It is hardly surprising that in our society perceptions of homeless persons remain two-dimensional, stereotypical, inadequate. Even for the rare administration tackling the problems of homelessness in an effective, meaningful way, the homeless person’s humanity is buried beneath a mountain of endless statistical markers: mental illness, substance abuse, soup-kitchen attendance, etc.
The enormous negativity lingering about the resultant profile permits scant room for other, arguably important accoutrements of the human experience—character, emotion, intellect, beauty, relationship to divinity—and leaves homeless persons basically where they already are: on the street, the objects of middle-class loathing or pity.
Struck by this depressing determinism, artist Bevan Ramsay set out to cast portrait busts of homeless persons (one woman, the others men), producing an edition in fine, white statuary Hydrocal plaster mounted on mahogany bases. These portraits, titled Lesser Gods, are objects of fine craftsmanship, skillfully rendered and strikingly beautiful, and they permit us to reconsider these folks not through the screen of stereotypes or statistics, but as individuals, complicating our urge to pity. (Excerpt of a text by Edwin Jansen)
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Following his first post-secondary degree in Fine Arts in 1994, Bevan Ramsay trained as a cabinet-maker and completed an apprenticeship in antique restoration. He was co-founder of a successful furniture design firm, eventually selling his shares in order to further his education. He earned a BA in philosophy and intellectual history from McGill University in 2007, and an MFA in sculpture from Concordia University in 2011.
In 2012, Ramsay returned to North America following a year in India where he served as a volunteer advisor for childrens’ art programs while his wife conducted academic research. Bevan Ramsay is a native of Montreal, currently based in New York City.
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