Simchowitz is pleased to present So Far Out of Sight, a solo exhibition of new work by Lily Ramírez, on view at Hill House Pasadena. An open house and reception will take place on Sunday, February 15, from 11am–3pm. RSVP for address and parking information here.
In So Far Out of Sight, Lily Ramírez approaches painting as a space of quiet reckoning, an arena where memory, perception, and feeling converge. Rooted in ongoing conversations with the self and reflections on lived experience, the works unfold as emotional cartographies. Texture, gesture, and color function not as embellishment but as language. Each mark is intentional, carrying the trace of thought, sensation, and time.
Ramírez does not aim to replicate physical landscapes. Instead, she evokes the emotional atmospheres bound to remembered places. What emerges are terrains filtered through memory, hovering between the specific and the shared. The paintings feel deeply personal yet subtly collective, as though they hold echoes that extend beyond her own experience.
Painting, for Ramírez, cannot exist as a purely formal pursuit. It must be animated by encounter. She works from what she sees and hears, from moments that have shaped her interior life. The canvas operates as a parallel to the page, a space for reflection and translation. Each work holds the intimacy of a journal entry, articulated through pigment and brushstrokes rather than text.
A quiet tension runs through the exhibition: the sensation of being surrounded by inspiration while still searching for it. Ramírez situates herself within the landscape both literally and metaphorically, as participant, witness, and translator. The paintings hold this dual position, balancing immersion with reflection, suggesting that clarity arises not from distance alone but from sustained attentiveness.
So Far Out of Sight frames distance not as withdrawal, but as a mode of perspective. Through layered, impasto surfaces and deliberate mark-making, Ramírez positions painting as a tool of orientation, a means of situating the mind and spirit within the evolving terrain of identity and becoming.