(b. Dominican Republic, 1957).
Primarily known as a printmaker, Ramírez has developed a characteristic pictorial language through her merging of large-scale graphics, the actual woodblocks from which she produces her prints, natural elements, domestic objects and installations. Ramírez is an architect by training - she graduated in 1986 from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo - and her works have a sense of physicality meant to actively engage the viewer. She also briefly studied at the Taller Internacional de Creación de Jóvenes Pintores y Arquitectos in Moscow. In De La Misma Madera (From the Same Wood), 1994 a version of which won the Grand Prize at the XIX Bienal Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Santo Domingo, Ramírez exhibits a multitude of woodblocks, each containing the image of a person's face. Positioned on the ground in front of this sea of faces is a slingshot set into a pile of stones. For an artist who has pre
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