Meet The Artist

Ramel Jasir

Ramel says, he’d like to describe my work as my ever-evolving voice in color. A voice in a color that resonates with various emotionally charged motifs of love, family, universal human rights and politics. If you look closely at his art, you will see that a lot of his work is an expression of his journey to retrace his cultural and ethnic roots that span several continents.

Considering his multi-ethnic heritage, he refuses to be bound by one form of expression or technique. Instead, his artwork is a free-flowing stream of consciousness often tied to indigenous themes in collage bound work by whimsical colors in dots, abstract patterns, and characters that span the human diaspora.

Born and reared in Portsmouth, Virginia, Ramel Jasir strains to grasp a memory of his childhood that does not involve creative art in some form. A self-taught artist that did not start painting until 2008 after a traumatic life event, Jasir has always been a researcher of his craft and has honed his skills and artistic talents through experiential learning.

Ramel Jasir captures the ethereal in patterns that evoke the spiritual cryptography or calligraphy that merges the salient transitioning of color chroma, hue, and pattern into a meditation upon the evocative impression of the medium, pushed to its limit.

Inspired no doubt or originally sourced in aboriginal art of the central Australian plane, and Mexican stippling painting, yet standing apart from either tradition, Ramel Jasir’s work evokes the transcendent and original experience.

These are psychologically impressive works, evoking the relationship between humankind and medium, between art and art form, without the hang-ups of formulaic realism, though it too has its merits, it becomes with all this in mind, a meditation of allegory https://calendly.com/mcardwell mark@cardwellcom.com www.cardwellcom.com

Along with global influences, Jasir derives insight from the artists of his native Hampton Roads region of Virginia including Wayne Portrafka, Clayton Singleton, Sharon L. Backus Hanson, and the plurality of cultural heritage that courses through his own veins.

Continually open to what life and history yearn to speak to him, Ramel Jasir aims to create inspiring, evocative, educational, and true art.

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