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Debra Ramsay

@debraramsay.bsky.social

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Artist. I’m concerned with the concept of time. Current project focused on creating abstract paintings of bird species migrating through Central Park. Bird colors as timestamps at a specific location.

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · May 21

My current project examining bird migration through Central Park, NYC continues the color as time inquiry, documenting the colors of avian species that are in the park for specific periods on their migratory journeys.

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · May 21

I sampled colors from the same 18 locations on a hiking trail in New Berlin, NY, each season. Many thanks to @golden_art_fdn for providing the digital tools and time to launch this investigation.

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · May 21

Color As Time has been an interest of mine for over a decade. This work from 2014 documented the color change in nature over a year.

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Mar 9

Green Heron is on exhibit at Gallery MC, NYC in the American Abstract Artist New Members show, through March 29th

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Feb 25

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Feb 24

Green Heron

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thank you!

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Feb 3

www.instagram.com/share/_1RSFz...
Honored to be in #spectacleexhibition at @57w57arts.bsky.social

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Dec 7

Delighted to contribute a few of my *bird* paintings to the Winter issue of Rustica Journal.

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 26

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 25

Pleased to collaborate with the Center for Humans and Nature on their digital publishing platform.
Read the full article here: humansandnature.org/the-nature-o...

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 22

@jasonmilleryeah.bsky.social Thanks for sharing. 🕊️

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 22

The Nature of Time: One Year of Bird Migration
An illustrated essay I wrote, published online at The Center for Humans and Nature.

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The Nature of Time: One Year of Bird Migration

In extending my pursuit of using colored pigments as a way to illustrate the passing of time, I attempt to capture nature’s always changing play on color. This particular ongoing […]

humansandnature.org

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Reposted by Debra Ramsay

Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · Nov 22

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Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · Nov 22

Always fascinated by Amelia Earhart, thank you. (Putting this link here so I can read about the book later.)

The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro: 9780593295908 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The riveting and cinematic story of a partnership that would change the world forever In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir ...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 21

@elkement.art Thanks for sharing!

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks for sharing! 🙏

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks Daniel. I think of the images I make as translations of bird species. There’s a lot of information embedded in the final image, gleaned from researching the bird.

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 20

One of the world’s few tool-using birds. It creates fishing lures with twigs, feathers, insects, etc.

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 20

Flying Colors, solo exhibition at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, 2024

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 20

Eastern whip-poor-will. A species that times its egg-laying to coincide with a full moon so it can forage for insects at night to feed its young.

Within the Nightjar family, it’s named onomatopoeically after its song.

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 20

Circumstance of Air, a solo exhibition at Starr Suites, Brooklyn, NY, 2024

Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 15

Thanks @everyheron.bsky.social for sharing!

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Debra Ramsay @debraramsay.bsky.social · Nov 15

Green Heron.

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