Dearest friends and colleagues,
It’s beginning to look a lot like... the apocalypse, everywhere you go. Hmm, that’s not right. We’re dreaming of a white...crypto-fascist takeover of our democracy… NO!! Not dreaming, more like feverish nightmaring. And yet, we can already hear those jingly-jangly sleigh bells curling our scowling mouth skin into unsteady smiles, softening our haunted thousand-yard stares into twinkly-eyed cheer. Ho Ho Ho? Who’s ready for the Gestapo? This tingly numb feeling can only mean it’s time to shop! So we jiggle our jolly bellies on down to the mall to feed the empire’s insatiable economic furnace…just as sweet little Baby Jesus intended.
Yes, that’s right, the holidays will soon be upon us and this year at Big Ramp, we hope to put the “más” back in Christmas. We want more, more, more!!! More time with you, more merriment, more art! So here we are announcing our inaugural pan-holiday-detournement-spectacle-freak-out, A Very Big Ramp Xmas on Saturday, December 13. This is a party, a fundraiser, AND an art swap rolled into one pine-scented yule log! And we’re inviting you—our beloved community of friends, collaborators, and collectors—to help Big Ramp deck its halls this December! We’ve called on dozens of our most talented and cunningly transgressive artist friends to fill Big Ramp to the gills, floor to ceiling, cheek to jowl with artwork—each piece designed to fit cozily inside a classic red Christmas stocking, like the ones your parents pull out of the attic every year still smelling faintly of mothballs and forgotten candycanes. Each artist is “exhibiting” two works stuffed into stockings: One “foot” in the pair is auctioned and the other is exchanged. One stocking will be sold to help Big Ramp’s 2026 programming, and the other will be exchanged with another exhibiting artist to support…the gift of friendship.
Part art auction, part Secret Santa, and part drunken holiday party for you and your estranged family, this is the event of the season before the foretold prophecies mark the end of days.
The We Are All Compost closing reception will be an Earth Day pre-party: Saturday, April 19 from 2 to 5pm!
Like all things, We Are All Compost was composed to decompose. Over the past few weeks the works on display have succumbed to entropy and the digestive efforts of a host of 🪱, 🪲, 🍄🟫, and 🦠. We’d love to celebrate the closing of the exhibition and the collaborative efforts of our more-than-human friends with YOU, our human friends!
Exhibiting artist @rschultzartist will share her soil, lake, and waste stream pigments, gathered from Philadelphia’s Kensington and Port Richmond neighborhoods (pic 3) for guests to make their own paintings, so bring your own canvas, wood block, stone, tile, paper, or whatever you’d like to paint on!
Oh and come thirsty as we’ll also have a selection of home fermented beverages on tap to cheers our exhibiting artists and their more-than-human collaborators! 🍾🥂
#weareallcompost
Springing forward into my second show @bigrampphilly I am thrilled to announce We Are All Compost, a group exhibition of decomposing compositions of entanglement with the more-than-human world. See all you fleshy bags of compost next Saturday March 15 for our opening, 5-9 pm!
Super grateful to work with such committed and thoughtful artists:
@bobby.haskell.art@violabordon@neranderthal@rschultzartist
Cindy Stockton Moore
@nicholevanbeek
About last night! What an amazing performance, Apertures, Borderscapes, and Fruit Trees, by @amalia_cn_ and @ablative_music . So glad I got the chance to work with you all to physically and musically activate the @enriquebostelmann exhibition at the @bermanmuseum
I'm very excited to share that I put together a show with some amazing artists @bigrampphilly !
It opens on Sat. 9/14 5-8PM, so come check it out! Although, sadly, I'll be out of town, which means we'll just have to celebrate again at the closing on Sat. 10/12 2-7PM.
Check out and follow these rockstars for a taste of the show:
@depreciating_ascetics_@luciagarzon@jrod1227@noemi.nh@joseortizpagan@cesarmural
