Ramona Pratte

There Was a Restlessness

June 5 - July 31, 2026

Leedy Underground Gallery II

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In There Was a Restlessness, Ramona Pratte digs into the obscured and the buried, interrogating what keeps us from discovering ourselves.The exhibit includes a wide array of work, including paintings, cyanotype, and sound design. With her usual penchant for theatrics, Pratte invites you into a world of abandoned industrial buildings, underground tunnels, geological anomalies, and mysterious floating women.

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Ramona's work sits at the intersection of time, decay, and rebirth, and asks if our human desire for control disrupts the interplay between them. She interrogates these themes by weaving time and its effects into her work. By supplying a loam of history, she invites the viewers into an ecosystem of human impermanence, one that turns the viewer into a witness of the tyranny of the physical, as well as the healing and annihilating forces of time. 

 

Artist Bio:

 

Ramona Pratte is an artist and poet currently based in Lawrence, Kansas. Her work sits at the intersection of time, decay, and rebirth, and asks if our human desire for control disrupts the interplay between them. 

Born and raised in the midwest, she studied at the University of Kansas, focusing on painting and printmaking. She was the recipient of two Undergraduate Research Grants as well as the Lockwood Scholarship and Jane Voorhees Printmaking Scholarship. She graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Studio Art. Since then, she has shown her work in various Kansas City Galleries, including solo shows at Four Chapters and the Leedy-Voulkos galleries.