Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of Edgar Ramirez and Aaron Siskind, entitled Dialectical Surfaces.

Friend and peer to the abstract expressionists, Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was famously referred to by Elaine deKooning as “the painter’s photographer.” Siskind was largely responsible for not only embracing the language of abstraction through the medium of photography, but also for introducing the depiction of found or natural urban decay, or maybe better put, ‘dialectical surfaces,’* (surfaces marked and scored by change over time) into the canon of western art in the late 40s. In his work, the flat but textured space of the lived wall reveals a captivating formal complexity produced by time, weather and the elements. Indeed, in his universe, a given urban fragment is liable to be as pictorially compelling as any abstract canvas by Clifford Still or Franz Kline. Pioneered as such, this terrain will be later valorized and explored in a variety of ways by…