Created By: Downtown Pittsfield, Inc.
The Let It Shine! Public Art Partnership welcomed Argentine/American artist, Ramiro Davaro-Comas, to paint an original mural entitled “Let the Autumn Shine” on the back of 26 Dunham Mall (facing City Hall). The mural was funded by the MassDevelopment Transformative Development Initiative (TDI)’s Cohort Project and the property owner, Scarafoni Associates.
About the Pittsfield Mural: “Let the Autumn Shine”
The mural “Let the Autumn Shine” is part of a series of plant murals that Ramiro has been painting on a variety of different walls since October 2022. The plant design is bold, colorful, and meant to bring a vibrant touch of nature to the urban landscape.
Ramiro’s goal is to paint plants with surrealistic colors on locations and walls that might otherwise not see flora, with some large postcard-like words that reflect positive community projects, quotes, or ideas. Ramiro’s hope is that these murals add to the pride of the community and activate forgotten or underutilized spaces, while at the same time bringing the importance of plants and nature into the subconscious of the viewer.
About Ramiro:
Ramiro Davaro-Comas is an Argentine/American artist with a background in public art and artist residency management. His passions for painting, storytelling, and community work have pushed him to travel throughout his career, collaborating with artists around the world. Davaro-Comas studied Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was followed by a year of service in Holyoke for Americorps, all while continuing his pursuit of illustration and painting. In 2012 Ramiro was invited to participate in a collection of international and U.S. artist residency programs, bringing him to Berlin, Amsterdam, and Barcelona for 6 months, then back to the states for another 6 months in Upstate New York and Providence, RI. This pivotal year shifted his focus from the non-profit world to working full-time as an artist.
After moving to Brooklyn in 2013, he had two sold-out solo exhibitions at the Cotton Candy Machine Gallery, which set the groundwork for his career as an artist straddling the line between fine-art and illustration. He began producing limited edition art books in tandem with his exhibitions, always considering the multiple avenues for art collection. Throughout the past decade, Ramiro’s work as an illustrator has centered on a passion that precedes his love of art, collaborating primarily with independent skateboard companies for board and merchandise graphics. His work as a muralist has brought him to small towns and giant cities, aways with a desire to tell whimsical character-based stories that invite multiple interpretations.
In 2016, he launched Dripped on the Road, the only traveling artist residency program for muralists in the US. From 2016-2022, the program worked with over 30 artists, painting over 150 murals throughout the East Coast of the United States.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Mural Tour of Pittsfield, MA
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