Mel Ramos

Ramos was born in 1935 at Sacramento, California. He is an American Artist.

In 1964 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York. In 1965 he developed a specific kind of Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products.

Some critical observers of the "art scene" persist in classifying Mel Ramos as a Pop Artist. His identification with the Pop movement of the 1960's was much too narrow to account for the braoder context of his paintings. His humor is not satire of ridicule. His "parodies"are respectful, affectionate tributes, a celebration of images with personal meanining.

Awards:
1986 National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1986 United States/France Exchange Fellowship