In 1988, hallucinatory voices inspired him to begin making wonderfully dense and intricately patterned drawings in black ink.
There he created an enormous body of ornate, densely patterned drawings whose incantatory power, formal scope and cultural richness defy category.
There are the iconic, heavily patterned drawings of trains and cowboys that the Mexican-born Martin Ramirez produced during his stay in a California mental institution.
The creatureliness of snakes, herons, a turtle and a prickly cactus are captured in boldly patterned drawings that fairly explode with life.
It includes hypnotically patterned drawings, a textile and five video monitors, all exploring the connection between looms and modern information technologies.
A black-and-white drawing, "Pelicans and Man o' War" (1960-65), sets up a rhythmic back-and-forth of pelicans and waves; the creatureliness of snakes, herons, a turtle, a prickly cactus, are captured in boldly patterned drawings that almost explode with life.
Design drawings, contract deadlines, resources availability and material supply patterns are extracted from a real oil and gas expansion project to validate the proposed implementation methodology.
Frequent travels gave him insight into the needs of his leisure-loving clientele; it also informed the colors, patterns and drawings he would show in the following season.
After developing the model the designer will be able to use the CAD software to develop patterns, interpret drawings and transfer dimensions to sheet materials and sections to meet the required specification.
Martin Ramirez, whose elegantly patterned, linear drawings of cowboys, trains, tunnels and mountain landscapes can be found at several booths, was hospitalized for most of his adult life.
