Colorado artist Andrew Ramiro Tirado has been creating a series of large scale hands from reclaimed wood and other 3D and 2D media. Tirado finds a balance between traditional craftsmanship and the innovative ideas that enliven some of the best contemporary art. The artist spent many years doing a variety of work from building wood strip canoes, fabricating custom props, displays, and sets, to building custom cabinetry. From 1989 until 1991, Andrew was a studio assistant for the painter Chuck Close in New York, and since 1988, he has worked as Seminar Faculty for the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Summer Seminar for high school students. From 2005 – 2016, Tirado taught woodworking, ran the Arts and Crafts spring semester adjuncts, and supervised the 3D Arts Facility at the Colorado College, a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs. In 2014 he was visiting faculty and taught a sculpture class at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, had a solo show, entitled Open, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In 2014 – 2015, his sculptural piece, entitled Lacuna, received both the Jurors’ Choice award and the Peoples’ Choice award for the 16th annual Art on the Streets Exhibit in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In March of 2016, he resigned from his position at the college, spent some time in Italy, assisting with an exhibit for the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture’s 15th annual international architecture exhibition, “Reporting From the Front”, and began to create art full time in Colorado.
Andrew is currently creating commissioned work for a number of public and private venues, including a suspended piece for the lobby of the Maven, a boutique hotel in Denver, CO’s LoDo District that opens in March of 2017.
Andrew is currently creating commissioned work for a number of public and private venues, including a suspended piece for the lobby of the Maven, a boutique hotel in Denver, CO’s LoDo District that opens in March of 2017.