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Pura Vida Sarchi: Las Tortugas

Artist: Ramirez, Andrea

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

County Department: Aging and Disabilities

Supervisorial District: 4

About the Artwork:

The Los Nietos Community Senior Center, formerly Los Nietos Library, was rededicated as a Community and Senior Center in 2017. As part of the renovation plans for Los Nietos Community Senior Center, the Civic Art Division selected four artists, Wayne Healy, Pola Lopez, Andrea Ramirez, and Laura Vasquez Rodriguez, to provide artworks for the newly renovated facility. The artworks include twelve paintings and limited-edition prints placed in the Center's entrance corridor and community room. They consist of figurative works reflecting a diversity of ages in family friendly depictions of community life and activities consistent with the Center's programming.

About the Artist:

Andrea Ramirez “Mextica“ is a community taught painter working in Los Angeles. Inspired by the papel amate artwork of Otomi and Nahua traditions and the carretas of Costa Rica that she grew up with, Ramirez paints the community, culture and love surrounding her. Working with the natural colors and texture of papel amate’s bark paper and a flat, elongated perspective, Ramirez’s acrylic paintings seek to capture the everyday activities of her community, such as getting tacos from the neighborhood taquero or strolling Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. It is important to the artist that her audience see themselves positively represented in her paintings. Their memories of being in the subjects’ locations make the paintings come to life and feel like home. To learn more visit: https://www.artemextica.com/