Born, raised and educated in Barranquilla, Colombia, Ramiro Valle's diverse studies range from the fine arts to industrial engineering. Valle is a published poet and accomplished musician. He draws upon his many talents to inform his unique visual language. Valle lives in Los Angeles, where he devotes himself to his career as a full-time, visual artist.

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Valle's integrative, digital paintings are surreal and evoke a sense of timelessness. The viewer becomes lost in the rich backgrounds and mazes that create infinite worlds within each piece. Techno brushwork characterizes Valle's technique --  he gracefully combines the technology of digital imaging with an artist's sensitivity for his medium. Each painting starts with an original photograph that has been converted into a digital image. Through the computer, Valle literally paints over his photograph, the digital enhancements act as elements of mixed media applied on top of the initial composition. Only portions of the photograph remain untouched by the artist's brush, thus coaxing the viewer to search for clues as if solving the mystery of Valle's visual world.
                                                                                                                                    – Mary Pomerantz

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The pieces in this presentation are a segment of a challenging path where I describe the universe my soul can see; those intimate worlds inside us that reveal parallel dimensions so conflicting and complex. The moody lakes with those sweetest shadows, or the melancholic and tragic ghost tormenting a broken childhood. This lonely world of perception and redemption has begun in these unpredictable sights of brightness when I feel illuminated.

                                                                                                                                      -- Ramiro Valle