https://www.ramonaotto.com/wall-art daily 0.75 2022-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534092816959-WLDKP4MT2Y8A9RA3Z9GG/Childrens-flag.jpg Wall Pieces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441275425-WBJGB31HO0MZKENF8X1Q/trip-tych.jpg Wall Pieces - Tin Triptych Vintage tins (including a watercolor paint box, coffee can, lunch box, souvenir tray, cheese container, toy train, and mailbox), applied to three plywood panels with brass brads. This piece is a word play on a three panel triptych and a trip across the USA. Each state is made from a tin that represents a historical fact about the state. (For example, the Oregon tin has several hearts on it because they got statehood on Valentine’s Day.) In addition, the background is made to represent the exterior of an airstream trailer. 52” x .5” x 34” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1533947202540-J5ST1JI84LDEB13LY3F7/Childhood-on-the-wall.jpg Wall Pieces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1533948608552-28Y8WRDBMYWTZDCCQZTG/childhood.jpg Wall Pieces - American Childhood Plastic red, white, and blue iconic toys like Mickey Mouse, Superman, Lambchops, Ronald McDonald, Hello Kitty, and Barbie applied to plywood. 51” x 3” x 31” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441199940-9D1HVGYFBERYIJ69SI1Y/Good-Morning-America-Flag.jpg Wall Pieces - Good Morning America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441115833-C6ICDLIV8A6C555GAGFU/Homage-to-Jasper-Johns.jpg Wall Pieces - Three Flags - Homage to Jasper Johns Vintage tins applied to plywood with brass brads. Three Flags is the size of Jasper John’s iconic piece at the Whitney Museum of America Art. 16” x 3” x 47.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441161552-M2947WXPV7D8VQBEO2MY/Read-White-and-Barnes-and-Noble.jpg Wall Pieces - Red, White and Barnes and Noble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534438396916-04VYAXH6ST9VO7RIF61T/farmers-market.jpg Wall Pieces - Farmer's Market Flag Wood, metal, and paper stickers that make up the shopping carts at the historic Farmer’s Market at 3rdand Fairfax in Los Angeles. The green and white flag is made from parts of historic wooden shopping carts from the Farmer’s Market, a famous landmark in LA since 1934. The market is next to CBS Studios and is a popular tourist destination. The flag includes every part of the iconic, handmade shopping carts that are used at the market. I made two of these flags. The other one is on display at the Farmer’s Market with an artist’s plaque. 53” x 2” x 42” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534025141175-UNWQN3Y66TGO5W1VVTJ7/using-my-heads.jpg Wall Pieces - Using My Heads An antique folk art medicine cabinet, my collection of vintage, carved wood heads (many are prototypes from doll and teddy bear maker Robert Raikes), vintage brass crown and label frames, and inked letters from an antique printing set on labels. 17” x 5” x 29” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441225302-G4ODGBPZUBSJ2F5YKQ8Q/youre-my-type.jpg Wall Pieces - My Type of Guy Vintage typewriter parts and case, antique typewriter shipping crate, typewriter advertising rulers, my typing class report card from Grinnell Junior High, antique wooden cutting board, and tin toy typewriter parts. I made this for Steve for our 33rd wedding anniversary. 16” x 3” x 47.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534025221377-ZH0EV7621C4ZGVTGAJY5/pigment-of-my-imagination.jpg Wall Pieces - Pigment of My Imagination Cupboard door from Naylor’s Paint Store in Venice, California, my mom’s cutting board, vintage tin wings, and inked letters from an antique printing set. The door was on the cabinet below the paint shaker machine. The “Jackson Pollack” look was from 25 years of a paint can exploding every now and then. 25” x 2” x 28” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534025265280-ZGCB80I7PD2MSUF897V5/parrot-head.jpg Wall Pieces - Parrot Head Hotel key cards gathered by the tour manager from all the employees on a Jimmy Buffet road tour (see Margaritaville Resort cards), a Jimmy Buffet autograph, and plywood. 17” x .5” x 34” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534025440100-48Q0D8YFALKXPJB6LZGH/written-in-stone.jpg Wall Pieces - Something Written in Stone Vintage wood tray, turn of the century pyrography glove box, inked letters from an antique printing set, and found stones When we visited a lighthouse, I looked down and noticed a stone that had an “e” engraved by nature. Knowing that an “e” is rare to find in nature, I decided to look for L, O, and V stones. It took about 2 hours. 15” x 3” x 9” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534438449189-YK533JR6N2GOAF2TO1TC/an-apple-for-teacher.jpg Wall Pieces - An Apple for Teacher From the Wizard of Woz Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak’s autographed titanium business card, vintage tin, Dayton brass letters from 1910, and an iBook G4 computer case. When I was a teacher, Steve Wozniak visited my school to give a talk to the older kids. After it was over, he knocked on my classroom door to ask if he could come in and teach some math tricks. (He asked for the 9 and 10 year olds as he considers it the most important age to inspire. Steve was once a math teacher.) After he was finished, he gave all of the kids and me one of his titanium business cards. 13” x 1” x 10.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534438537907-TB6JSM2CMXRHXROKYLUP/rabbitical.jpg Wall Pieces - Rabbitical Prototype of Calvin Rabbit from doll maker Robert Raikes, vintage, inlaid hankerchief box, flyleaf from an antique book, and inked words made from an antique printer’s set. 6” x 3” x 9” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534439987565-8DTTCK43RG9GKYMFQ3D5/great-wall-of-china-hearts.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China - Hearts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534440074099-KDI5O9VBT26YVQW1ALJ1/great-wall-of-china-patchwork.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China - Patchwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534440151254-4JDT7J8P05F4U1OPJP15/great-wall-of-china.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China Guardian Angel, Love, I’d Love to Go to Holland, Wooden Shoe? So. California Republic, Great Wall of China, American Quilt, Raining Cats and Dogs, Baseball Motherhood and Apple Pie, Icon, American Taxpayer 15 panels, 5 pillars, and 4 sections each 95” x 16” x 65” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534440463913-KTM1I9AFIO4QWDELQQPH/great-wall-of-china-angel.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China - continued Guardian Angel, Love, I’d Love to Go to Holland, Wooden Shoe? So. California Republic, Great Wall of China, American Quilt, Raining Cats and Dogs, Baseball Motherhood and Apple Pie, Icon, American Taxpayer. 15 panels, 5 pillars, and 4 sections each 95” x 16” x 65” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534440109401-DOJAB6T88QA7MPZFHPCV/great-wall-of-china-sea.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China - Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534440040905-UOB1H0WLHH1ZU4JDAOK3/great-wall-of-china-map.jpg Wall Pieces - Great Wall of China - Map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441089338-XKNK7L57RJGP4UV6937Q/hot-dogs.jpg Wall Pieces - Hot Dogs Grouted vintage china pieces with a dog and hotdog theme include dog figurines, ashtrays, salt and pepper shakers, plates, a holder for glasses, a bank, an antique Staffordshire dog, and handmade ceramic letters 50” x 2” x 57” https://www.ramonaotto.com/objects daily 0.75 2022-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1533948050809-QN93Y1J7H82QX7Z5GSOD/thinking-outside-the-box.jpg Objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021067776-I70J7SV2STTE5J6SRQ9K/turtles.jpg Objects - Life in the Slow Lane A collection of twenty-nine vintage cement lawn turtles with shells of grouted beach glass retrieved from Glass Beach in Kauai. Glass Beach is the site of a very old community dump that was active from the late 1800s to the 1960s when it was shut down. Because it was the site of a dump, unusual beach glass treasures can be found there including ceramic sockets, antique Clorox bottles, pieces of old glass fishing floats, porcelain doll parts, resistors, spark plugs, antique pottery, china, and glass. The turtles range in size from 33” x 22” x 16” (largest) to 5” x 3.5” x 2” (smallest). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021629295-E1N762O6PIM2UL6VWCOJ/flash-drive-1.jpg Objects - Flash Drive Comic book hero, Flash Gordon’s 1930s toy wagon, wooden rabbit, vintage tin toy driver, metal steampunk egg, old jewelry chains and an antique heart shaped clock weight. 15” x 3” x 7” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021562320-9FZCMX1NDZO6TH4YMAWB/gram-my-award.jpg Objects - "Graham"my Award Recording Academy membership card (given to me by family friend, Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash), Graham Nash’s personalized guitar picks, an antique Nipper the Dog RCA bank, a vintage folk art box, with letters applied in ink from an antique printing kit. 5.5“ x 4“ x 9“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021185272-F13B10STMARUIG3GERSA/our-house-1.jpg Objects - Our House 1950s tin doll house parts applied with brass brads to an old garage cabinet, Dayton brass letters from 1910, antique zinc letters, paint stir stick and tassels When we cleaned out my parents’ house, I found my childhood dollhouse in the basement. The floor was completely rusty but I wanted to preserve it. I used three additional dollhouses in the piece. Each panel illustrates a lyric from the song, “Our House”, that relates to the dollhouse parts. For example, “I’ll light the fire…” has fireplaces from the dollhouses. The composer of the song, Graham Nash is a family friend. He gave me the zinc letters, and the stir stick was used when they were painting their house. I found it on Christmas Eve when we were visiting and the tassel was from their Christmas gift to us. So that little side art piece is called “Not a Creature Was Stirring.” 36”x 24” x 29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021285726-JHOLBRYPHUDM4DRH4HIJ/our-house-6.jpg Objects - Our House - Top View Our house is a very very very fine house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021213575-YJJLEP6BDD8W45XFNP39/our-house-3.jpg Objects - Our House - side view “I'll light the fire, while you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021242784-R5FCH4SKOALDSC35RLJX/our-house-4.jpg Objects - Our House - side view “Come to me now and rest your head for just five minutes, everything is good. Such a cozy room, The windows are illuminated by the evening sunshine through them, Fiery gems for you, only for you.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021258077-TT30UYI04J61ZQ4WCMP7/our-house-5.jpg Objects - Our House - cabinet back view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022019225-6OXDSWIN75PKHLY9P19Q/road-house-3.jpg Objects - Road House Hotel key cards, 1950s plastic letters for personalizing handbags, backstage laminate/passes from Crosby, Stills, and Nash concerts, hotel room keys, Graham Nash’s personal guitar picks, address label, and Graham Nash signature. Graham gave me the hotel keys/backstage passes from a road tour and challenged me to make something out of them. The first thing that came to mind was a “House of Cards” and then because the group was on the road, I thought of “Road House”. 4” x 2” x 9” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022042718-YOZQEU0IND1KYQ9AV50C/road-house-2.jpg Objects - Road House - back view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022065139-VSYB7VZ3CHJ0XB763HSM/road-house-1.jpg Objects - Road House - front view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022878076-L7BBOZVL08N9PLDA58QT/banana-joe.jpg Objects - Banana Joe Cabinet Hand painted signs and birdhouse from Banana Joe’s fruit stand in Kauai, 1940s folk art mermaid and Hawaiian girl plaque, vintage copper banana handles and hardware on a handmade redwood cabinet with words impressed from a set of antique letter punches. 38“ x 22 “ x 96“ When we visit Kauai, we often stop at Banana Joe’s, a great local fruit stand, to get strawberry papaya, apple bananas, and other yummy tropical fruits. One day I noticed one of Joe’s handmade signs laying on the ground broken in half. I asked him if I could buy it for an art project. He said he had some around the back that he would sell me. So I bought these signs for $5 each, as well as, the birdhouse that was starting to come apart. My nephew, Jay Ratcliff, and I built the cupboard. I was amazed to find banana door pulls at a designer’s yard sale in West Hollywood. The 1940s cabinet hardware is from Liz’s Antique Hardware, and I made the words with a set of antique metal punch letters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022920722-GIZYQ1JP3U9RQS8U96S4/banana-joe-detail.jpg Objects - Banana Joe Cabinet detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534024564583-0OQ487RTFJM0OLYX1SJF/Write-On-America-Dresser.jpg Objects - Write on America: That's My Point Vintage and contemporary pencils, old advertising yardsticks, wooden spools, and carpenter pencils applied to a custom made dresser that was an end of school year gift from my students, class of 2002. I read a book about museum quality Adirondack twig furniture. I loved the designs that were made with twigs of contrasting colors. Panels in the furniture featured stars, hearts, flower baskets and traditional quilt designs. I started searching for straight twigs so I could make my own piece. There must be a certain kind of willow that is used for furniture because after searching for quite some time, I never found any straight twigs. One day at school, I noticed pencils in the trash that had been thrown away because the erasers were gone. I realized that they were the same size as the twigs and could be used to make my furniture piece. Even better, they came in colors and had logos that made them a kind of time capsule of the pop culture of the period. So, I put a “recycle pencil box” in every classroom in the lower school. One of my room moms asked me what I was going to do with the pencils, and I told here I wanted to make a dresser for my bedroom. When school ended that year, she had arranged with the class to have a furniture maker build a custom dresser for the project as a surprise gift. 34” x 18” x 49” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534024343464-D11NXRT5I3GF6ZQG5RTL/Catnap-dog-tired.jpg Objects - Cat Nap/Dog Tired Vintage “shop art” made in garages and industrial arts classes in the 1930s-1950s (including door stops, bookends, toys, games, smoking stands, match holders, yard art, key holders, and folk art sculptures), and recycled vintage broom handles applied to a wooden frame. 92” x 62” x 92” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021737282-MT01T555QR2VB8NWU7SF/thinking-inside-the-box.jpg Objects - Thinking Inside the Box Chalkware head from the 1930s, doll wardrobe from the 1950s, Dayton brass letters from 1910, vintage rhinestones, and gold leaf. 6” x 4” x 10” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021796885-XYSVMBU42XJNP6SKGXLH/thinking-outside-the-box.jpg Objects - Thinking Outside the Box Vintage, chalkware Kewpie doll bank, 1927 salesman sample hat from Frank H. Lee Company, antique folk art spool box, inked letters using vintage printer’s kit. 13” x 8” x 19” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021689766-S3Q71J10N9BHJMBHFYRO/guardian-angel-fan.jpg Objects - Guardian Angel Fan Vintage copper heating shell from the 1940s, turn of the century German Minerva tin doll head, vintage rhinestone jewelry, wooden folk art wings, and brass Dayton letters from 1910. 10“ x 6“ x 13“ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534021942385-JXQL2FHUD80WC61JOA0K/queen-of-found-objects.jpg Objects - Queen of Found Objects Antique wooden sculpture, vintage checkerboard, folk art hand-carved cabinet, found objects, and personal family treasures. This piece is a sort of scrapbook of the memories of my life. For example, my grandma’s necklace with charms for each grandchild is hanging from the skirt, as is the nameplate from my college dorm room, and a comb from my uncle’s barbershop. I keep adding meaningful objects as I find them so I don’t think this piece will ever be finished. 17’ x 17” x 65” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022113077-S1Y2P4Z3TLWYOX8UWVP3/shes-a-good-egg.jpg Objects - She's a Good Egg Antique egg crate/cardboard liner, vintage Minnie Mouse egg cup from the 1930s, and an antique glass egg that was once placed in the nesting box by chicken farmers to induce the hens to lay eggs. 6.5” x 3” x 8.5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022169166-TVU6EGSV4AQH8K1J9KTJ/art-angel.jpg Objects - Art Angel Wooden clock case, articulated wooden art doll by dollmaker Robert Raikes, rhinestone jewelry, beaded Ramo ribbon (my nickname), Dayton Company brass letters from 1910, art related charms and doodads. 11” x 6” x 23” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022223680-R8K56QLJZC2R7LUD6E7K/pray-for-peaceful-coexistance.jpg Objects - Pray for Peaceful Coexistence Shrine Gilded and vintage wooden Catholic shrine, statues, charms, and symbols from all the major religions of the world, and Dayton brass letters from 1910. 21” x 4.5” x 21” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534023063330-2RGMOXBQ4935EIEBPHPO/hula-girl.jpg Objects - Hula Girl Vintage hula girl lamp from the home of Susan and Graham Nash (It had been knocked over and was broken.) and 1940s/1950s sterling silver charms and charm bracelet chains with a Hawaiian theme. 7” x 7” x 17” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534022781134-C2OQD4YI4FLDGBXVYAU8/a-dog-named-blue.jpg Objects - A Dog Named Blue Grouted vintage china applied to a cement lawn dog. Much of the blue and white china is from a pattern called Liberty Blue. It was given away in grocery stores as a premium during the bicentennial year, l976. The scenes depict famous events in American history like Betsy Ross making the flag, Washington crossing the Delaware, and Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride. The dog’s nose is the top knob of the sugar bowl from the set. The eagle on the base is a vintage handmade tile. The stars and stripes around the base were from dinner plates that I found at a yard sale. White figurines include a colonial gentleman and two angel dogs. The name of the piece is inspired by the Lobo song “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo” and the country songs about bluetick coonhound dogs popular in the southern US. A popular name for this breed of dog is ”Blue”. 20” x 11” x 29” https://www.ramonaotto.com/from-the-jewel-box daily 0.75 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534192970423-KAQR5AT0VO09SYVEM7CP/elephant-in-the-room-1.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534351301023-JSEIRHRNNDNWPGZ3PUD2/dog-as-my-copilot.jpg The Jewel Box - Dog Is My Co-Pilot Vintage road trip souvenir jewelry (including iconic landmarks and icons from each of the 50 states, a vial of salt from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, and dirt from the pitcher’s mound in Dodger Stadium) on a fiberglass dog modeling his camera, sitting on a vintage suitcase with a 1960s American Tourister luggage tag. 30” x 21” x 14” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011790865-UVF7R7LYPN57LOJSNRSJ/watch-dogs.jpg The Jewel Box - Watch Dogs Dog tags, time and dog related jewelry/figurines, medals from dog shows, vintage watch parts, and rhinestones on wooden dogs. These 2 dogs were the first assemblage pieces that I made with jewelry. They were featured in an ad campaign for the American Cancer Society and appeared in 10 national magazines. It was the first time I saw the word “artist” next to my name in print. 35” x 18” x 14”, 25” x 12” x 8” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011923447-SWG62T0L9WE5SO9CGCC7/watch-dog-back.jpg The Jewel Box - Watch Dog - Dox Dog tags, time and dog related jewelry/figurines, medals from dog shows, watch bands, vintage watch parts, and rhinestones on a wooden dog modeled after my childhood German Shepherd by the name of Dox. 18” x 6” x 11” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534353382137-E4MBMU64L1KFNKOP781K/watch-dog-left.jpg The Jewel Box - Watch Dog - Dox - three quarter view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011202216-BHS3SC5C83VVI7YHA3X7/pearl-before-swine.jpg The Jewel Box - Pearl Before Swine Vintage pearl, gold, and white rhinestone jewelry on an art deco mannequin followed by fiberglass and wooden pigs encrusted with pink pig related jewelry (including “lipstick on a pig”, “ when pigs fly”, and “silk purse out of a sow’s ear”). 54” x 34”x 32”, 17” x 24” x 9”, 13” x 15” x 7”, 9” x 14” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011632294-VK7UJPQXVRPKVQIJNKQ3/pearl-close-up.jpg The Jewel Box - Pearl - detail of torso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011522845-CD5GTQKJACU7J0K7RL75/pig-backside.jpg The Jewel Box - Swine - back view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011552353-0B7U2CC8PUKXM6Z8I9G8/pig-med.jpg The Jewel Box - Middle Size Swine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534011595223-3V5FDKYYE7SV83ZJPFCA/pig-closeup2.jpg The Jewel Box - Swine - detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534012899877-JWO56A1TDM56OU7W6VSO/flower-girl.jpg The Jewel Box - Flower Girl Garden themed vintage jewelry (including flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees, ladybugs, and birds) on a 1930s mannequin from an old bridal shop. 59” x 20” x 19” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534012180471-75XN1JV5MQT8YJT60DCR/bunny-with-egg.jpg The Jewel Box - Easter Bunny Delivers a Faberge Egg Easter themed vintage jewelry (including rabbits, baby chicks, ducklings, lambs, eggs, baskets, spring flowers, Easter bonnets, and religious symbols of the season) on a wooden rabbit and an egg perched on a 1920s cottage ceiling light fixture. 15” x 30” x 10” , 11”x 8” x 8” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534351121988-4L5TVNPUA85JY73OV197/bunny-frontview.jpg The Jewel Box - Easter Bunny - front view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534351165491-JZ4ZO3YI5H9EVPYW32TD/faberge-egg.jpg The Jewel Box - Faberge Egg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013256273-S2F12V76H6MS7PJ0W17Y/Flower+Child+Left+side+stratight+on.jpg The Jewel Box - Flower Child Garden themed vintage jewelry (including flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees, ladybugs, and birds) on a 1930s child mannequin from an old bridal shop. 35” x 15” x 15” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534012652995-3AK7C9GSRK4THSXSK2UB/Email+Flower+Child++pro-back+view.jpg The Jewel Box - Flower Child - rear view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013354136-WODH09WNXBV8YWEOLQKQ/elephant-in-the-room-1.jpg The Jewel Box - Elephant in the Room Elephant themed jewelry (with references to White Elephant, Pink Elephant, Dumbo, Horton, Babar, Ganesha, the GOP elephant, and stories from literature like the Indian fable, “The Elephant and the Blind Men”). 15”x 18” x 7” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013401514-FHH3X4BJALR347WZULSP/elephant-in-the-room-4.jpg The Jewel Box - Elephant in the Room - rear view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534351210615-FKU32UWYY82QYFH1HTR1/lucky-dog-front.jpg The Jewel Box - Lucky Dog Lucky charms (including souvenir pieces from Las Vegas, wishbones, horseshoes, wishing wells, Leprechauns and other symbols of luck), on a wooden dog, vintage assemblage box, lucky pennies I found on the streets of Los Angeles, antique zinc letters, good luck horseshoe plaque, and a framed four leaf clover. Around his neck Lucky Dog is proudly wearing pieces from “Tails of Joy”, jewelry that helps the wonderful animal rescue organization founded by my friend, comedian Elayne Boosler. 19” x 11” x 14” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013597033-H2T3IE6XCTE6CF3ANMZW/cat-colfax-front.jpg The Jewel Box - Colfax Glamour Puss Cat themed vintage jewelry on a wooden kitty based on the markings of my favorite pet, Colfax. 7” x 17” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013616859-FO7IN6X919N1EJKPV91Y/cat-colfax-back.jpg The Jewel Box - Colfax Glamour Puss - rear view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534013889042-886TOYSIHFLKZ2XMUTV6/Dog+Bless+America+front+large.jpg The Jewel Box - Dog Bless America Americana themed vintage jewelry (including flags, presidential memorabilia, political buttons, eagles, Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross, Patriots, 1776, Liberty Bell, and the Statue of Liberty) on a wooden dog. 16” x 8” x 12” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534014152183-ESI1IY57I7OOT997WYDF/lucky-duck-2.jpg The Jewel Box - Lucky Duck Lucky charms (including lucky pennies, dice, gnomes, stars, souvenir pieces from Las Vegas, and other symbols of luck) on a vintage wooden duck that was a prop in a coastal restaurant, a mid-century footstool, metal letters from the 1950s that were used on mailboxes, and brass 4 leaf clovers. 31” x 27” x 15” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534014377613-GO5LFRHQI240AMXGERQS/Bird+Dog+right.jpg The Jewel Box - Bird Dog Bird and dog themed jewelry on a wooden dog, antique metal address letters, and a vintage drawer. 16” x 22” x 10” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534014613863-LM542PQG869XTWOQXDDN/White+Rabbit+front+watch.jpg The Jewel Box - White Rabbit Vintage jewelry and pocket watch with Alice in Wonderland fobs on a wooden rabbit. 17 “x 16” x 7” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534014642961-RYBY9H1RF99VAIJT0ZPN/White+Rabbit+back.jpg The Jewel Box - White Rabbit - side view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534019469263-RVH5PR24KSLB3E0BJWAK/HolyCow.jpg The Jewel Box - Holy Cow Vintage religious and peace themed charms and doodads applied to a fiberglass cow on a 1930s gilded department store display. The fiberglass cow once grazed in Susan and Graham Nash’s backyard. Every major world religion is represented in the treasures on the piece, as are many leaders in the peace movement like Martin Luther King and Gandhi. 47” x 24” x 44 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534019509548-2LA1ROQMSZUXMCB6A3YD/Holy_cow_front.jpg The Jewel Box - Holy Cow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534019588129-5E0MF6Q1Q25MGWTAZO46/night-mare.jpg The Jewel Box - Nightmare: The Good Kind Night image themed vintage jewelry (including stars, moons, planets, angels, Santa Claus, owls, constellations, rockets and the Zodiac) applied to a collector’s replica of an antique rocking horse, and brass Dayton letters from 1910. 58” x 20” x 49” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490171949-56GTYQRPSC14R2XHKLVU/A2201-01_0408_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490210303-5WQG9VL6FZ0DEURYK0VG/A2201-01_0436_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490272553-1HI9RFOCVMYXFM09NIYN/A2201-01_0247_F.jpg The Jewel Box - Winner Winner Chicken Dinner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490408379-K7D41LXNOHH88QYEB5EP/A2201-01_0158_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490409911-MW19CG1F1FRFDNTTPTBE/A2201-01_0168_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490415908-NLEPU0EMKSDGSJQO552I/A2201-01_0151_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490290091-V95FT4HVRJC1GDEK1EFD/A2201-01_0227_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490416567-5A5UFKMIC906G9G8ZAD7/A2201-01_0148_F.jpg The Jewel Box - Get Along Little Doogies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490421307-57NSR02X0TCJQPZ65IS3/A2201-01_0140_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490421788-JBZ1PHMXH06LOSM4V353/A2201-01_0132_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490426082-WHRU2FANQ7UR7U8RCG7X/A2201-01_0123_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490434875-X2BUZU9LPMQ3ZM63KLLX/A2201-01_0022_F.jpg The Jewel Box - Teacher's Pet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490444490-E3C0YEK0SFD3NKAQXQ0I/A2201-01_0083_F.jpg The Jewel Box - Heal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490438021-3M1LNRLN7IW05WFKM9BM/A2201-01_0097_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490441309-RESMRELNWM4T2POT1MVS/A2201-01_0102_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490396298-FN0Q4IQZ4E8BJ9FBH7XO/A2201-01_0203_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671490400721-OAH3ZJR9R9CFC88XY09S/A2201-01_0184_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1671491353003-U5YNJ858K5X9Y95CEODC/A2201-01_0275_F.jpg The Jewel Box https://www.ramonaotto.com/press daily 0.75 2023-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1676569744832-0AN3PMYH567VHLJOWFGR/image-asset.png Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1652545974647-FBUG0QAI9V3KUCEZJCOL/image-asset.jpeg Press - Artist featured by Lubbock Arts Festival shares story of her exhibit 'Do these stripes make me look political?' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1676569744832-0AN3PMYH567VHLJOWFGR/image-asset.png Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1559789233166-J7RVDE0BZFABG2EV2A5H/SweeptheNation.jpg Press - Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political? Images: Top: “Gridlock” Bottom: “Tin Triptych” For Immediate Release: Contact: Laura Grover at 310-994-1690 or LDG@anet.netfor additional information and request Dropbox link at bottom contains high-res images, descriptions of pieces, artist statement RAMONA OTTO’S “DO THESE STRIPES MAKE ME LOOK POLITICAL,” A RETROSPECTIVE SOLO EXHIBITION, OPENS AT THE FINE ARTS BUILDING ON JUNE 13, WITH AN ARTIST’S RECEPTION FROM 6-8PM AS PART OF THE DOWNTOWN L.A. ART WALK ARTIST WALK-THROUGH TO TAKE PLACE JUNE 22, 2-4PM With this series of assemblage art pieces, Otto ponders and plays with the iconography of the “Stars and Stripes” LOS ANGELES, CA, June 5, 2019: “Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political?,”a retrospective solo exhibition by artist Ramona Otto, opens Thursday, June 13at the historic Romanesque Revival-style Los Angeles Fine Arts Buildingin downtown Los Angeles. There is an artist’s receptionfrom 6-8PM, as part of the Downtown L.A. Art Walkthat evening. There is also an artist’s walkthroughscheduled for Saturday, June 22, 2-4PM. The show,which runs through July 6, was curated by guest curator Nancy Larrew, and Lisa Ames, curator of the Fine Arts Building. Based in Los Angeles,Otto is known for her assemblage artsculptures and pieces made from found objects including toys, tiles, vintage jewelry, charms, ceramic fragments, tin scraps, postage stamps, concert tickets, keys, and other trinkets and ephemera. The 20 pieces that comprise “Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political?” span1999 to 2019,and are displayed in the lobby’s elegant vitrines. Each incorporates the American flagin some way, considering its emblematic heft with wit, thoughtfulness, intellect, and wonder. And, of course, visually dazzling and meticulously executed assemblage. In today’s often divisive cultural and political climate, red and blue are oppositional – be it states, news, people, and more. It’s a zeitgeist that complicates our relationship to the nation’s flag in ways that can be hard to put into words. First sewn by Betsy Ross in 1776, “Old Glory’s” design unifies the red and blue with the hopefulness and pride of white stripes and white stars. With “Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political?,” Otto remembers the days when things were simpler, and looks ahead to finding new meaning and common ground in how we perceive the flag. In her artist statement she writes: “When I grew up on a farm in Iowa in the 1950s, the American flag was a powerful symbol. I remember the pride we all felt when leading the daily Pledge of Allegiance at Washington #4, the country school a mile from my house…Today, it is often difficult for people to listen to and understand one another. I am nostalgic for conversations that end with a smile and ‘Let’s agree to disagree. Now where shall we eat lunch?’” Previous solo exhibitions include, most recently, 2017’s “Inside the Jewel Box,”also at the Fine Arts Building, and: “An American Love Story: The Art of Ramona Otto” at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles; “Found In America”at the Craft In America Center in Los Angeles (the brick and mortar space of the PBS series “Craft In America”); and “Oh Say Can You See, The Flag Art of Ramona Otto” at Los Angeles City Hall. She was recently featured in the group show “Art with a (Re)Purpose at Castelli Art Space. Otto was also an elementary school teacher for gifted children in Los Angeles for more than 40 years. She encourages parents to bring children to the exhibition, which is family-friendly, and a compelling starting point for discussion about America as Flag Day and the Fourth of July approach. The Fine Arts Building is an iconic 1927 structure that was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1974. The lobby is open to the public from 8AM-8PM, seven days a week (811 W. 7thStreet, Los Angeles, CA, 90017). It is just steps from the 7thStreet Metro Center at the end of the Expo Line. Dropboxwith high-res images, description of pieces, Artist’s Statement, etc.: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qihbq886qcvl62x/AACgqjz-p9tMNjZLpoAZGJ4Ua?dl=0 Photo credit: Photos of Ramona Otto’s work by Leonard Monje https://www.instagram.com/ramona_otto/ http://www.ramonaotto.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Ramona-Otto-Artist-155017471239794/ Images: Top: “Dog is My Co-Pilot” Bottom: “American Childhood” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/5b707032575d1febd1fdd15f/5b75c626562fa7fa4a7ef14b/1534445134730/ Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534455320264-26ZYRY83U4R2THOOJLIY/huffington-post.png Press - Huffington Post - Ramona Otto: Faberge Everything https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534456458599-KBH0PWYQK9IQC2A9DU9B/Diversions-LA.png Press - Diversions LA - Ramona Otto Goes "Inside the Jewel Box" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535520798302-RB0A7XCLTB6J7KF3AV7L/Screen+Shot+2018-08-28+at+10.31.08+PM.png Press - Artillery “Inside the Jewel Box” - Walk Through and Reception with Artist Ramona Otto. http://artillerymag.com/events/inside-the-jewel-box-walk-through-and-reception-with-artist-ramona-otto/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534456935259-XW9F7GVV2VT48ZR7ZV4S/huffington-post-2.png Press - Huffington Post - The Story of Orra White Hitchcock and the Women Whose Modesty Hides Their Talent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534457507642-9CZZ80BW6SJKYEBQVHMQ/huffington-post-3.png Press - Huffington Post - A Retired Elementary School Teacher Turned Her Home Into a Folksy Fine Art Mecca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534459512377-01FSJGBB8LCWKW7F6NT9/craft-in-america.png Press - American Craft Council - Otto in Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534458323266-3X714WAGV4D4XJ7Q70OP/CAFAM-love-story.png Press - An American Love Story opens at CAFAM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534458829429-IXYI3C6TRCVVJFNU0L64/women-who-create.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534459094056-QHY1JZQX4CVAZ0XHZ4G3/women-beyond-borders.png Press - Women Beyond Borders - Fannie Flagg & Ramona Otto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534459307833-D0G5W0CF83WCX3ORAEU8/artist-talk-ramona-otto.png Press - Craft in America Artist Talk: Ramona Otto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534459944637-AICOJCAQQYVZUVAXOG9G/the-studio-tour.png Press - The Studio Tour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1559789929071-X2WKZKTWKXXKYAXH9FAQ/SweeptheNation.jpg Press - Do These Stripes Make Me Look Political? https://www.ramonaotto.com/studio-visits-and-other-images daily 0.75 2018-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131762998-QUWG89C269GHPRB6CCNY/Craft+in+America+Graham+Nash.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Graham Nash Craft in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131762998-QUWG89C269GHPRB6CCNY/Craft+in+America+Graham+Nash.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Graham Nash Craft in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535515136777-8QTMOCBWFBJ5A1V1ZXIE/IMG_2006.JPG Studio Visits and other Images - Elayne Boosler Always a comedian, Elayne poses behind Pearl at a studio visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131526682-CHEGOAVDAZDX7PZG9XQB/CAFAM+opening+Jackson+Browne.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Jackson Browne Jackson Browne - singer/songwriter/activist, 6 Grammy nominations and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Song Writer’s Hall of Fame pictured with Dianna Cohen, artist/activist and co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition dropped by my opening at the CAFAM show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132463372-PHDUTHG9YHWYY70P55HI/IMG_2725.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Mary Randolph Carter Treasure hunting with the Queen of cool finds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131705599-6WKHNZ0OZ8YV9W1V8I2W/Carter+and+Carter+studio+Colfax+chair+2017+another+view.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Mary Randolph Carter and Carter Berg Mary Randolph Carter - Creative Director of Ralph Lauren, author and photographer brought her son, Carter Berg, over for a studio visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132089339-B8RA5ZG2AFR6TBJDDQC2/IMG_0841.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Douglas Kirkland Douglas Kirkland - iconic celebrity photographer for Look and Life Magazines shooting for my photo spread in American Craft Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132131691-UN0Q7ETQZIAIMV5O0C6P/IMG_0928.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Douglas Kirkland Photographer, Douglas Kirkland, taking a break from shooting my work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131967979-R2WR4OSCRGX5SG739WTN/Graham+and+Ramona+at+CAFAM.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Graham Nash Graham Nash at CAFAM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535141995019-9O7TR0XZKKI03CYIMU8H/Bob+Barker+photo.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Bob Barker Bob Barker - host of the longest running game show, The Price is Right. The flag is made from Price is Right audience tickets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535131879354-6KB77RA80QXWFAG2ED7G/Farmer%27s+Market+with+Graham+and+Susan+006.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Graham Nash Farmer’s Market with the Farmer’s Market Flag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132195987-6C3KMGZVTMJL462BXEMC/IMG_1523.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Betty Saar Artist Betty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132256244-I6K138F8FI9SC8AQ0P0M/IMG_2660.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Elayne Boosler and Barbara Lazaroff Opening night at Inside the Jewel Box at the Fine Arts Building in Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132511874-WN3PXNB0C82ORWDI00S8/IMG_2784.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132543074-9GWUFI299XCJD758NQF2/IMG_3004.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Bonnie Hunt Actress and nurse, Bonnie Hunt, drops by for a studio visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132605943-9L8UQO4AH9I9YGIUGC8N/IMG_3007.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Bonnie Hunt Studio visit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132643106-2QGK0BEXPIMMGCG26C1U/IMG_8104.jpeg Studio Visits and other Images - Bonnie Hunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132668503-Y1TOP72D6CR7TX9XYLY7/Tess+Harper+flag+and+wall.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Tess Harper Tess Harper - Golden Globe and Academy Award Nominee stops by the studio for a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535132693648-KHL1VOGAS1ZLQ4H28ZZ9/Tess+Harper+studio+Happiest+Place+on+Earth.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Tess Harper Tess Harper - Golden Globe and Academy Award Nominee stops by the studio for a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1535141375909-HDN0ROG32G39WPPIDW0B/Oh+Say+Can+You+See-solo+show+at+LA+CIty+Hall+2.jpg Studio Visits and other Images - Rocky Delgadillo Commendation from the City of LA for my first solo show “Oh Say Can You See: The Art of Ramona Otto” at LA City Hall. https://www.ramonaotto.com/works-for-stripe-show daily 0.75 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1647115510328-A8XF7KBJ15E1WPGORKEC/A2201-01_0140_F.jpg Works for Stripe Show - Git Along Little Doggie 14.5” (h) x 13.5” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1647115510328-A8XF7KBJ15E1WPGORKEC/A2201-01_0140_F.jpg Works for Stripe Show - Git Along Little Doggie 14.5” (h) x 13.5” x 5” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1559841607730-07ZK5AN3ZJTICFJRBJ3T/gridlock.jpg Works for Stripe Show - Gridlock 33” x 3” x 15” Vintage metal toy vehicles on painted plywood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1559841900900-2A7KWJ8VJI2RUMPYMDAB/A1905-01_MG_9840+comp_FLR.jpg Works for Stripe Show - Triptych: USA 52” x 1” x 34” Vintage tins and brads on plywood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534441115833-C6ICDLIV8A6C555GAGFU/Homage-to-Jasper-Johns.jpg Works for Stripe Show - Homage to Jasper John: Three Flags 45” x 2” x 30” Vintage tins, brass tacks, plywood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1533947202540-J5ST1JI84LDEB13LY3F7/Childhood-on-the-wall.jpg Works for Stripe Show - American Childhood 52” x 3” x 32” Plastic red, white and blue toys on plywood, wooden letters and gold gilt frame https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1647115334419-OK6SLHK0HB54CNX3XGKP/American+Picker.jpg Works for Stripe Show - American Picker 24.25” x 16.5” https://www.ramonaotto.com/reviews-and-quotes daily 0.75 2018-08-12 https://www.ramonaotto.com/home daily 1.0 2023-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/1534019882127-14R5A4HC8SUEP7GQO221/douglas-kirkland-photo.jpg Artist Statement Photo copyright: Douglas Kirkland https://www.ramonaotto.com/contact daily 0.75 2018-08-21 https://www.ramonaotto.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2025-07-16 https://www.ramonaotto.com/collectors daily 0.75 2023-03-09 https://www.ramonaotto.com/holy-cow daily 0.75 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/7fb848f2-f1c3-454e-9ef7-be29e893c88d/holycowQR.jpg Holy Cow The cow is life-size: approximately 8 ft in length, 5 ft tall and 38” wide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6e179a7e3c3a514cdadb45/127b4952-7875-4360-be96-c0cf2ee4e4ce/udder.jpg Holy Cow - 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