PARIS.- Galerie Richard in Paris announce the opening of their second gallery in Chelsea, NYC this coming September at the ground floor of 514 West 24 Street. The inaugural solo exhibition of Paul Henry Ramirez entitled PLAYCONICS opens on September 8, 2011. Donald Kuspit, noted curator and writer, will be writing an essay for the exhibition catalog.

Jean-Luc Richard, owner and director says of the expansion –“I mainly support emerging and mid-career artists that I want to see accepted as major established international artists, and to do this I need to have a gallery in New York.”

"This guy, Jean-Luc Richard is the most adventurous and courageous art dealer in Paris.” states leading collector Hubert Neumann, curator of the exhibit The Incomplete – Paris at the gallery last fall. He continues in Le Figaro that “There is no question about that. If you want to see the best emerging artists, Galerie Richard is the place to go."

With 21 successful years in Paris exhibiting mainly American artists, the first year in Chelsea will feature Carl Fudge, Beverly Fishman, Shirley Kaneda, Joseph Nechvatal, with Dionisio González and Christophe Avella-Bagur having their American debut.

PLAYCONICS will be Ramirez’s first major solo exhibition in NYC in four years. The exhibition marks a new level for Ramirez as The Newark Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art had purchased numerous paintings in recent years and a donation was made to the Hammer Museum. With the exhibit Ramirez explores the vocabulary he has developed over 20 years in eight large paintings, increasingly mixing the playful with his iconic forms in recent years. This is evident with two canvases used in two separate site-specific wall installations and an installation of interactive new TYPSI paintings.