Anaheim Blvd: Hood to Suburb

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

Open hours during exhibition dates:

Thursdays & Fridays 4-8pm

Saturdays 12-4pm

1st Saturday Artwalk 6-10pm

By appointment all other days & times

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 Crear Studio’s IG bio!