Alkaid Ramirez

Releasing our Risograph softcover edition of Alkaid Ramirez’s Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb for @printedmatter_artbookfairs #laabf2025. When we first started working on the special edition of @totesthewizard ’s book, we wanted to create a secondary edition at an accessible price point for wider distribution of Ramirez’s oral history. The book is now live on our website • tap our linktree in bio for access or stop by K32 to see Ramirez in person. In person purchases include complimentary shipping for signed copies shipping out this week 📕 — Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb is a Risograph artist book that examines the gentrification of Orange County, California’s Anaheim and the erasure of Latinx/e communities within. Narrated as oral history by Alkaid Ramirez, the book is structured as a photographic timeline of the artist’s neighborhood, outlining the displacement of family businesses and homes—a devastating effect of the rampant real-estate developments in the area uprooting working-class communities. Ramirez writes about Anaheim Blvd, recollecting childhood memories and local establishments to document the importance of Chicanx history: An old veterano, a doughnut shop on the corner, hard-working parents who built his community. Both a counter-archive and a call to action, Ramirez refuses to accept the loss of his neighborhood. Instead, he speaks back, coopting developers’ language, signage, and “we buy homes” postcards, remaining hopeful that local organizing and resistance movements will preserve the presence of those who made Anaheim. The publication features photography and writing by Alkaid Ramirez, an essay by Sarah Rafael García (@cuentosmobile ) and poetry by Jesús Cortez. Softcover, Singer-sewn, 8 in. x 6 in. 5-color Risograph with short sheets, edition 150, 2025 Published & Printed by Seaton Street Press #anaheim #artistsbooks #risograph

Felicidades to @totesthewizard for a phenomenal opening yesterday at @crearstudio — 80 community folks showed up! Shout out to all our gente y familia, especially @sarahnmosqueda for a fantastic write up in @timesocofficial / @latimes ! Look for it in this Sunday’s newspaper! Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb July 18-September 14, 2024 📍Crear Studio 222 W. 5th Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701 GALLERY TIMES: Thursdays and Fridays 4-8pm Saturdays 12-4pm 1st Saturday Art Walk 6-10pm By appointment all other days & times #AnaheimBlvd #alkaidramirez #bipocartspaces #crearstudio

Have you left your message for the redevelopers? Hurry, this opportunity won’t last forever, leave a message with your story! 2 weeks till opening day! Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb Alkaid Ramirez July 18 - September 14, 2024 Working radically and strategically to create a response to the continuous redevelopment in Anaheim barrios, Alkaid Ramirez is reimagining what it means to belong to a community that has been historically and constantly uprooted and gentrified. Ramirez “hijacks” messages from commercial real estate advertisements and re-presents them to reflect the impact on his hood and vanishing neighbors. In this solo exhibition, he uses traditional photography of integral scenes and stories to pose a counter-narrative to local redevelopment through the framework of material analysis. Inspired by Edward Ruscha’s photographs of Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard, Ramirez uses archival photography practices to document his community from past to present, while also bringing forward conversations of inequity and the macroeconomy that holds up the community. For more info, visit alkaidramirez.com. Want to leave a message or your story of displacement for the redevelopers? Call 714-729-3651 🗓️Opening Day: 4-8pm Thursday, July 18th 👉🏼Artist Talk & Closing Reception: Saturday, September 14th 12-4pm Gallery Open 2pm Artist Talk About the Artist: Alkaid Ramirez is a documentary photographer based in Anaheim. He has been practicing photography for over eight years, using traditional photography to capture his community in OC. Ramirez’s work is centered on significant places and periods of his life that contribute to his identity as a child of resilient immigrant parents and a second-generation Chicano actively deconstructing colonizer ideologies regarding BIPOC identity and identity assimilation in colonized spaces. This exhibition is supported in part by LibroMobile Arts Cooperative. For more details, read the press release — link in @crearstudio ’s bio! #AnaheimBlvd #hoodtosuburb #alkaidramirez #bipocartspaces #crearstudio

[FOUND FOOTAGE] Big Foo and The Zero-G Maytag BW photography 2026 Assisted by @hzr9207 . . . . . Everything is labor and for most getting lost in your work is escapism, so who decides what recreation is supposed to look like? #bwphoto #bigfoosighting #recreation #latinxart #cryptids l

[FOUND FOOTAGE] Big Foo Prepares for Inter-Hood Travel BW photography 2026 Assisted by @hzr9207 . . . . WHERE IS THIS FOO GOING?!?

“I Saw This Big Foo Planting Something” (Dramatization of an Eye Witness’s Big Foo Encounter) 2026 BW Photography Assisted by @9207hzr . . . . . On going body of work investigating Big Foo, a new age cryptid showing how colonial and capitalist systems influence not only access to land and leisure but also how recreation is perceived and valued.

Big Foo Hieroglyphs (WIP) 2026 Photograms . . . Recreation has been on my mind. Big Foo showed up when I questioned who has access to it. But recreation starts to look different when you begin to understand that getting lost in labor is a form of recreation/ escapism. Maybe he’s showing me something.

THIS SATURDAY – just a few spots left! Use polaroids and collage to create a self-portrait that expresses your hopes and visions with Artist-Teacher Alkaid Ramirez at AGCC's Family Art Workshop! FREE and FUN for all ages, no experience needed 🎞️ Learn more and claim your spot now at the Iink in our bio. Family Art Workshop is brought to you through the generous support of @beststartwilmington . #agcc #angelsgateculturalcenter #artseducation #familyartworkshop #allagesart #freeworkshop #thingstodola #sanpedro #wilmington #laevents #familyfriendly #communityart #losangeles #southbay #polaroid #collage #selfportrait

Big Foo’s Origins (part of the Big Foo Codices) Evidence of his humanity!! 2026 Bleached cyanotype . . . . #wbigfoo #bigfoosighting #recreation #cryptidart #cryptids

Big Foo Encounters A Familiar Monolith 2026 Cast Pewter and Altered Plastic Sculpture . . . . Exciting times for this body of work. Challenging my boundaries. . . #BigFoo #Pewter #sandcasting #miniature #sculpture

BIG FOO ENCOUNTERS 🧊 2025 Illustrations by @kalynn.bugs Commissioned by me. . . Big Foo says “GET ACTIVE FOO! ¿A QUE ESPERAS?” . . Get active with a local community watch group!! Protect your neighbors! @luchaanaheim @luchafullerton @luchasantaana @lucha_orange @ice_out_of_gg #solidarityforever #solidarity #BIGFOO #BigFoo

So much came to mind on what I wanted to say about 2025 but this year was incredibly stressful, difficult and painful for so many reason, from personal struggle to grief to communal pain. ✨ But as much as it was hard, it was healing, affirming and fruitful. So many opportunities were gifted to me and I’m grateful to have taken each one with stride, accomplishing milestone after milestone, celebrating blessing and after blessing. Never letting up and always picking up speed. Definitely a year for personal growth and thickening of the skin. However I’d like 2026 to be kinder, to me and to everyone else. Blessings and thank you to everyone who made this year special. Love you all. Especially @leslyeee_ who is my rock.