About Larissa Ramey
I am creating works that challenge me to explore the relationships, environments, and roles of my identity as a black woman and artist. The act of documenting and interpreting levels of my identity through photography, textiles, poetry, and performance has allowed me to cultivate a living visual archive of my lived experiences. Expanding upon my self-worth while acknowledging my heritage, ancestry, culture, and active participation in the present enabled this series to grow. To capture, share, and communicate the intimate and subtle ways in which I have carved out my place of identity and perspective.
Now, I am elevating my voice and the voices of others on 'what being Black means to you and how our art shapes us? These works are a diaristic interpretation of my family archives, lessons of domestic teachings, and the collaborative aspect of sharing lived experiences and building on creating another Black future.
By utilizing lens-based media, archival methods, art facilitation, and developing a social artistic practice, I have built my research and studio practice to focus on Black culture and its legacy. Textiles are bathed in historical interpretation with contemporary and modern voices; my narrative artworks intentionally create a dialogue that arches communities from past to present. With quilts, garments, lens-based media, performance, and text, I am currently investigating how to translate the impact of black women, our senses of sound and touch, and how we communicate (both physical and verbal) within our communities, homes, and in nature. In addition, modern visual media, such as Black style, fashion etiquette, and historical archives of Black culture, influences my contemporary practice, skillset, and intention of the works.
Larissa Ramey is a multi-disciplinary maker, entrepreneur, and arts organizer. Ramey invests in the relationships, care, and legacy of her social-artistic practice within her community and family. Using collaboration, educational tools, and resources to decolonize and intentionally support spaces to promote diversity, representation, and discourse (particularly in the Black community). Her works are rooted in community, identity, legacy, and the archive by utilizing lens-based media, textiles, publications, and location-based installations and workshops.
About the art
I am creating works that challenge me to explore the relationships, environments, and roles of my identity as a black woman and artist. The act of documenting and interpreting levels of my identity through photography, textiles, poetry, and performance has allowed me to cultivate a living visual archive of my lived experiences. Expanding upon my self-worth while acknowledging my heritage, ancestry, culture, and active participation in the present enabled this series to grow. To capture, share, and communicate the intimate and subtle ways in which I have carved out my place of identity and perspective.
Now, I am elevating my voice and the voices of others on 'what being Black means to you and how our art shapes us? These works are a diaristic interpretation of my family archives, lessons of domestic teachings, and the collaborative aspect of sharing lived experiences and building on creating another Black future.
By utilizing lens-based media, archival methods, art facilitation, and developing a social artistic practice, I have built my research and studio practice to focus on Black culture and its legacy. Textiles are bathed in historical interpretation with contemporary and modern voices; my narrative artworks intentionally create a dialogue that arches communities from past to present. With quilts, garments, lens-based media, performance, and text, I am currently investigating how to translate the impact of black women, our senses of sound and touch, and how we communicate (both physical and verbal) within our communities, homes, and in nature. In addition, modern visual media, such as Black style, fashion etiquette, and historical archives of Black culture, influences my contemporary practice, skillset, and intention of the works.
Larissa Ramey is a multi-disciplinary maker, entrepreneur, and arts organizer. Ramey invests in the relationships, care, and legacy of her social-artistic practice within her community and family. Using collaboration, educational tools, and resources to decolonize and intentionally support spaces to promote diversity, representation, and discourse (particularly in the Black community). Her works are rooted in community, identity, legacy, and the archive by utilizing lens-based media, textiles, publications, and location-based installations and workshops.