In the work of Ramón Bonilla concepts of landscape, architecture and geometry converge and are conveyed as topographic impressions deriving from spatial memory.
In the work of Ramón Bonilla concepts of landscape, architecture and geometry converge and are conveyed as topographic impressions deriving from spatial memory. A notion of space drawn from an imaginary recalling of particular places provides the context for his work which involves painting, murals as well as tape and wall vinyl designs which are mostly temporal and made by hand. His tape and wall vinyl design work involves using rolls of rice paper tape and pieces of vinyl. Through an ad-hoc method of production his tape and vinyl design work consists of adapting and responding to the architectural particularities of the spaces where the work is presented.
In his work a range of influences can be found from brutalism to minimalism to low-poly art. Through his practice he conceives structures and spaces by referencing architectural concepts of plan and elevation in a very loose fashion and articulates elements relating to the tectonic and urbanism. His work also involves a merging of concepts relating to modern art tendencies originating at the beginning and middle of the 20th Century. These concepts involve the use of white, black, gray and a minimal use of colors; the rectilinear; flatness; hard edge; cleanliness; precision; equilibrium; asymetry and austerity which provide a source of fundamental ideas that inform his own work.
The artist produces paintings that he considers to be intuitive environmental simulations establishing connections to nature and hypothetical architectures.
Ramón Bonilla has a BFA from Escuela de Artes Plásticas de San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has been featured on 5280’s Home magazine as one of the “The Five Local Artists To Watch And Collect”. His work has been commissioned for The Gates Building; Nexus BSP in Denver; Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, CO; The Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in Denver and through Muros, Chicago. His work is also part of the art collections of Le Meridien Hotel Denver and The Four Seasons Hotel and Resort Beverly Hills. He has been represented by Michael Warren Contemporary and Simon Breitbard Fine Arts in San Francisco. Currently he has representation through Space Gallery Denver. He has shown with Direction/Instruction, an international art group organized by Hyland Mather, and showed his work at Paradigm Gallery in Philadelphia. He has also shown his work at Understudy Denver and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, NM. Bonilla is an alumni of Redline Denver where he completed a two year residence and is a recipient of the Inside Fund which is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation.