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The Independent Art Fair is now open. Please join us at the newly renovated Battery Maritime Building: 10 South Street, New York, NY 10004.
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Our booth this year features the work of Lidia Syroka (b. 1956), who in the last decade has embarked on a profound exploration of the concept of metamorphosis; the “alchemy” that takes place when spiritual activity causes physical transformation. The artist's own body thus becomes a symbolic conduit for construction and deconstruction.
“Series 7,” made with Chinese calligraphy paper strips and black ink on crystal paper—notable for its austere beauty—is the latest in this progression. Our booth presents works from this series—the last to be completed by the artist—in conjunction with her first, “Series 1,” which explores the body as a machine.
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Join us today for the opening of “Play: American Game Boards, 1880 - 1940” (12-8pm).
Digital Preview 👉
https://www.riccomaresca.com/viewing-room/21-play-american-game-boards-1880-1940-in-person-and-online/⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Aligning with Ricco/Maresca’s ongoing mission to promote the crossover of self-taught, outsider, and vernacular art into the modern and contemporary arenas, Play presents a collection of outstanding game boards made between the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Created as functional objects by unknown American artists, these examples of parcheesi, backgammon, halma, checkers, Chinese checkers, mills, and solitaire (among others) have transcended their original purpose and stand on their own as cousins of modern art.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This exhibition decontextualizes these works to highlight their concrete beauty—and their visual affinities with minimalism and geometric abstraction, which they often precede—but it also acknowledges the mystery and gravitas that they possess as objects that once participated in everyday life.
Opening tomorrow: “Leopold Strobl: ONE.” Featured in both Artnet and Artforum as a “must see.”
ALL-DAY OPENING: Oct. 29, 11am- 7pm (on view through January 9, 2021)
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“ONE” presents a selection of Strobl's most recent works—all produced between 2019 and 2020. This is the artist's second one-person exhibition after his debut at Ricco/Maresca in April of 2016. Digital preview:
https://riccomaresca.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/18-exhibition-preview/
From the exhibition’s press release:
“Strobl’s process is a seamless, multilayered appropriation and alteration of a photographic base. It starts with combing through the local newspapers for evocative images that will lend themselves to the transformation that is to come. Strobl then scissors these images out of their original context and backs them with clean drawing paper. We know the steps that follow and the simple materials utilized (graphite and colored pencils), but not in what order, or if there is one--as the artist doesn't speak of it or allow onlookers when he is working. Strobl’s compositions are generally encased in a drawn internal frame that is either very subtle (delicately enclosing each scene with rounded corners) or partially amorphous, covering large areas like a spill or a flood. Depending on the disposition of the underlying clip, he traces over certain outlines--topographic features, horizon lines, architectural details, winding perspectival lines--and if there are figurative elements that don’t fit into the artist’s vision, he encloses them in graphite, like an insect spinning a cocoon, or a minimalist reducing a representational image into a basic shape ... The artist is a perceptive colorist and imbues his world with shades green, grey, yellow, blue, and ivory white--blending and layering pigment onto large areas with an eye toward the existing texture and light in the underlying photograph--so that ultimately, we don’t know where the artist’s touch ends and the found image begins.”
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Closing today 🎪🧳
“C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal”
“Visual art tends to portray the circus as a tightly circumscribed microcosm somewhat impervious to its surroundings; the place where misfits ran off to live adventurous, colorful lives, the portal through which spectators could escape to a more glamorous, intrepid dimension. McClusky captures this archetypal facet of the circus, but he also contextualizes it within a world in constant shift and confronts it with an increasingly fragmented individual experience. It is here, where this uniquely positioned artist and his wildly idiosyncratic practice meet a wider historical context, that this body of work becomes so powerful. We’ll never know what fire compelled this performer from the darkest corner of clown alley to create the oeuvre that is now his legacy, but his effort seems akin to Don Quixote’s impossible truth; the quest to comprehend one’s own experience as it navigates the threshold between fantasy and reality.”
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Join us this week at (February 27 through March 1 at the Park Avenue Armory).
As new members of Art Dealers Association of America we are participating with a historic one-person exhibition of work by the self-taught master Martín Ramírez, who produced some 500 works while confined at DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, CA. Our booth design echoes the artist’s fixation with architectural forms, particularly the Rothko-like arches, tunnels, and portals repeated ad infinitum throughout his body of work.
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@ ADAA Art Show
Join us this week at , organized by at the Park Avenue Armory (67th St) between February 27 and March 1. With a gala preview tonight.
Ricco/Maresca Gallery (booth A11) will present a historic one-person booth of work by the self-taught master Martín Ramírez, who produced some 500 works while confined at DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, CA. His rhythmic drawings and collages cross over seamlessly into the modern/contemporary arenas.This presentation will include works depicting Ramírez's iconic images of arches, trains, tunnels, and caballeros--all motifs that were honored with 5 USPS® Forever Stamps in 2015.
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