{"id":37332,"date":"2018-01-24T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=37332"},"modified":"2018-09-13T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:02:50","slug":"whats-new-for-stone-sculptor-jonna-ramey-2018-is-about-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/whats-new-for-stone-sculptor-jonna-ramey-2018-is-about-action\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New: For Stone Sculptor Jonna Ramey, 2018 is About Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Stone sculptor Jonna Ramey was educated at Stanford University with a degree in filmmaking and art and, in the 1970s, created feminist performance art and environmental sculpture with performances and installations throughout California. For 30 years she made her living as a film writer\/director in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

In 2002, she moved to Salt Lake City and saw the Chapungu exhibit of Zimbabwean stone sculpture at Red Butte Garden. The sculptures spoke to her, Ramey says. She studied with several visiting Zimbabwean masters and has been sculpting stone ever since. \u201cI am a direct stone sculptor,\u201d says Ramey. \u201cI carve with hammers, chisels and grinders. My work is often abstract, sometimes figurative but rarely literal,\u201d Ramey explains. \u201cMaking sculpture is a way for me to examine emotions, cultural concerns, myths and taboos.\u201d The artist has worked with stone from all over the world. \u201cI enjoy working with alabasters from southern Utah and honeycomb calcite from Hanna, Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramey moved to Sonoma, Calif., in 2008 and worked at the Petaluma Arts Center, becoming, for a time, part of a large community of artists. In 2015 she returned to Salt Lake City. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and galleries throughout the western United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sculpture has been evolving over the last two years, motivated by . . . the tumultuous presidential election, the heroic Women\u2019s Marches in early 2017, the terrifying rise of American fascism and the courageous #MeToo movement. These events have given rise to frustrations, angers and the need for action that I haven\u2019t felt since the 1970s and 80s. As one protest sign said: \u2018I can\u2019t believe I have to protest this same old shit again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBreaking Our Silence\u201d \u00a9 2017. Sculpture by Jonna Ramey. Honeycomb calcite on granite. 13.5 inches high by 4.75 inches wide by 5.75 inches deep.<\/p><\/div>\n

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For 2018 Ramey has been thinking about early feminist artwork and artists whose work she admired such as Louise Bourgeois and Judy Chicago. \u201cI\u2019ve been musing over women\u2019s issues around the globe. I\u2019ve been contemplating fierce female imagery such as ancient Sheela-na-gig carvings, and I\u2019ve been pondering storytelling in my art,\u201d says the sculptor. \u201cMy work going forward will continue to explore images of transformation and transmutation (relevant to the aging sculptor) and include strong, fierce, positive imagery . . . I want my sculpture to invoke an internal conversation with the viewer, not unlike the dialogue I have with the stone as I am sculpting it,\u201d Ramey explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreaking Our Silence\u201d is a sculpture she recently finished for \u201cTruth or Consequences,\u201d an exhibit at Art Access in Salt Lake City through Feb. 9. \u201cI was so moved by the actions of women across the country and world as they protested the election of [Donald J. Trump], an avowed misogynist. . . . This sculpture began as a statement showing the strength and power of women in protest but as it evolved, I came to realize it shows the strength of all of us raising our fists and our voices together,\u201d says Ramey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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