GUSTAVO RAMOS RIVERA

Canicula

2008
Etching
16.5 x 19.5 inches

Courtesy of Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Gustavo
Ramos Rivera, and Fine Art Services

Retail Value: $2,500
Buy it Now: $3,750
Opening Bid: $1,000

Gustavo Ramos Rivera is an abstract painter whose work is recognized for its emotional and visual intensity and its highly individualized iconography, which references Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and the architecture of his native Mexico.  Rivera has received a Fleishacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, and his work has been exhibited at the Ex-Convento del Carmen in Guadalajara, Mexico, the San Jose Museum of Art, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and the Fresno Art Museum.