Ricco/Maresca Gallery

Ricco/Maresca Gallery For 35+ years, Ricco/Maresca Gallery has specialized in Outsider, Self-Taught, Contemporary, and historically important American Vernacular Art.

Following in the footsteps of the legendary New York dealer Sidney Janis, Ricco/Maresca champions and showcases the art of self-taught masters working outside the continuum of art history. The gallery specializes in Outsider, Self-Taught, Contemporary, and historically significant American Folk art in various media. Over a period of more than 35 years, Ricco/Maresca has helped blur the lines that

have habitually separated conventional art-historical categories and “marginal” art. The gallery has carried out this mission through a pioneering program that emphasizes crossover between vernacular and mainstream traditions, the management of key estates (William Hawkins and Martín Ramírez among them), and seminal books produced with publishing partners such as Alfred A. Knopf, Little Brown and Company, and Pomegranate Press. Ricco/Maresca Gallery was founded in 1979 on Broome Street, within New York’s then-emerging SoHo gallery district. The gallery relocated to TriBeCa in the 1980s and later moved to Wooster Street in SoHo—which had by then become an established contemporary art hub. In 1997, Ricco/Maresca became one of the first galleries to move to the new Chelsea art district and is currently located at 529 West 20th Street. The gallery participates and has participated in the Armory Show, the Outsider Art Fair (New York and Paris), Metro Curates, Art Chicago, SCOPE (New York and Miami), and AIPAD. We work closely with major museums and collectors, and offer services that range from curatorial advisory to collection management, installation design, and conservation.

Born in Buenos Aires to Italian parents, Domingo Guccione’s journey into art was unconventional and deeply personal. A t...
02/04/2025

Born in Buenos Aires to Italian parents, Domingo Guccione’s journey into art was unconventional and deeply personal. A trained classical guitarist and instructor, Guccione lived much of his life immersed in music rather than the visual arts. Remarkably, despite his color blindness and lack of formal training, he produced an extraordinary series of works characterized by their intricate interplay of geometric forms and restrained palettes. Working privately and describing his process as channeling a “mysterious force,” Guccione created over 200 artworks between 1930 and 1955. He relied solely on graphite, colored pencils, thick paper, and a small wooden straightedge to craft his kaleidoscopic compositions.
“Rhythmic Abstraction” situates Guccione within the larger context of geometric abstraction, a movement that flourished across Latin America during the mid-20th century. While luminaries such as Joaquín Torres-García and the artists of the Madí Group were formalizing the principles of abstraction, Guccione’s private explorations ran parallel, untouched by the conventions of academic discourse or artistic collectives. His work recalls the optimism of modernist architecture, while its labyrinthine complexity suggests a world in flux—evoking the turbulent interwar years and the postwar period, when global shifts in culture, science, and politics inspired new ways of seeing and creating.
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“Domingo Guccione (1898 – 1966): Rhythmic Abstraction” is on view in our Gallery Two space through February 15.
Pictured (all works)
. Untitled, ca. 1930 - 55. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. 25 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (64.8 x 49.8 cm).
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. “The Bottomless Stairs,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 10 x 8 x 2 in. (25.4 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm).On view through February 1...
01/18/2025

. “The Bottomless Stairs,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 10 x 8 x 2 in. (25.4 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm).
On view through February 1 as part of our current Gallery One exhibition: “Hydeon: Adrift in the Corners of Time.”
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Hydeon (b. 1985) is the professional name of the artist Ian Ferguson. He was born in  National City, CA. and grew up in San  Diego. He began showing his work in the  early 2000s at various art venues across the  West Coast. In the years that followed, he  moved extensively around the country,  eventually settling in 2014 in a tiny  apartment in Brooklyn, New York, where he  currently lives and works. He has shown  widely in the U.S. and has had solo shows in  Paris, Berlin, Brescia, and Monte Carlo. The artist’s current practice seamlessly integrates influences spanning ancient civilizations to contemporary and speculative futures, crafting narrative-driven works pulsating with action. Populated by characters and creatures that are both recognizable and mysterious, Hydeon’s work draws inspiration from medieval, baroque, and Victorian art, as well as art brut, age-old myths, video games, and science fiction.
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. “VR Mission,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. Work in two parts (total dimensions): 20 x 8 x 2 in. (50.8 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm)...
01/13/2025

. “VR Mission,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. Work in two parts (total dimensions): 20 x 8 x 2 in. (50.8 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm). On view in our current Gallery One exhibition: “Hydeon: Adrift in the Corners of Time.”
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. “Aperitivos,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 30 x 22 x 2 in. (76.2 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm). On view in our current Gallery One ...
01/11/2025

. “Aperitivos,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 30 x 22 x 2 in. (76.2 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm). On view in our current Gallery One exhibition: “Hydeon: Adrift in the Corners of Time.”
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“The Mausoleums,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm). On view as part of our current Gallery One ...
01/02/2025

“The Mausoleums,” 2024. Gouache on wood panel. 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm). On view as part of our current Gallery One exhibition “Hydeon: Adrift in the Corners of Time.”
The gallery is now open with regular hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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 (b. 1985) is the professional name of the artist Ian Ferguson. He was born in  National City, CA. and grew up in San  Diego. He began showing his work in the  early 2000s at various art venues across the  West Coast. In the years that followed, he  moved extensively around the country,  eventually settling in 2014 in a tiny  apartment in Brooklyn, New York, where he  currently lives and works. He has shown  widely in the U.S. and has had solo shows in  Paris, Berlin, Brescia, and Monte Carlo. The artist’s current practice seamlessly integrates influences spanning ancient civilizations to contemporary and speculative futures, crafting narrative-driven works pulsating with action. Populated by characters and creatures that are both recognizable and mysterious, Hydeon’s work draws inspiration from medieval, baroque, and Victorian art, as well as art brut, age-old myths, video games, and science fiction.
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Abstract Blocks Variation Quilt. Tennessee (probably African American), ca. 1930-40. Mixed fabrics. 74 x 63 in. (188 x 1...
06/20/2024

Abstract Blocks Variation Quilt. Tennessee (probably African American), ca. 1930-40. Mixed fabrics. 74 x 63 in. (188 x 160 cm).
The images following the front of the quilt are details from the back, which is made up of feed sacks.
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 . Unique Voting Booth Curtain. Midwestern United States, ca. 1920-30. Paint on canvas. 43 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. (110.5 x 74....
06/16/2024

. Unique Voting Booth Curtain. Midwestern United States, ca. 1920-30. Paint on canvas. 43 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. (110.5 x 74.3 cm).
This amazing object, painted with the colors of the American flag is included in our current Gallery Two exhibition “Coming Attractions Vol. 1.”
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Works from our current online exhibition, curated on the occasion of Leopold Strobl’s inclusion in the 2024 Venice Bienn...
06/12/2024

Works from our current online exhibition, curated on the occasion of Leopold Strobl’s inclusion in the 2024 Venice Biennale. Link in profile.
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Strobl was born in Mistelbach, Lower Austria in 1960. He has devoted himself exclusively to art for almost 40 years, and has been a guest of the Open Studio program at the Gugging Art Brut center in the outskirts of Vienna for more than 16 years. He draws in the morning and single-mindedly finishes a new piece per session. This impetus is significant both in terms of form and content: the artist’s works are generally no bigger than 8 ½ inches on the longest side and can be almost as small as a postage stamp; they come to the artist as little visual epiphanies and strike the viewer with this poetic immediacy.
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Join us today (4-7pm) for the closing reception of “Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio,” featuring complimentary 15-m...
12/03/2022

Join us today (4-7pm) for the closing reception of “Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio,” featuring complimentary 15-minute tarot readings conducted by Laetitia Barbier / .cartomancy (for those who signed up in advance) and a wine bar for everyone else. / In association with Morbid Anatomy.
https://riccomaresca.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/90-closing-reception-grant-wallace-over-the-psychic/
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Artwork pictured: . “Les Veuves de la Mort”, ca. 1919 - 1925. Ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper. 20 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (51.4 x 31.1 cm.)
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Wallace was born in Hopkins, Missouri, in 1868, one of 9 children. He set out for New York City at age 19, where he studied and developed his interest in the occult. Wallace eventually made his way to California, where he worked as an editorial illustrator and reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle. He graduated to editorial writer for the Evening Bulletin and covered the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 among a group of war correspondents that included Jack London and Richard Harding Davis.
Just before World War I, Wallace settled with his family in Carmel, California, where he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, he channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.
[Artwork image © The Berger Wallace Art Collection]
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10/28/2022

FREE EVENT! We hope you'll join us Saturday, October 29 for Over the Psychic Radio: A Live, Online Symposium Dedicated to Artist and Occultist Grant Wallace, Produced in Partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery. Learn more and register at bit.ly/3fLyKpn.

We hope you’ll join us for a special symposium devoted to the forgotten life and work of American artist, occultist, and journalist Grant Wallace. This event is produced in partnership with Ricco/Maresca Gallery and celebrates their exhibition Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio (October 20 - December 3, 2022).

Grant Wallace (1868–1954) had a storied life before settling with his family in Carmel, California right before WWI. Here, he began experimenting with telepathy, or what he referred to as "mental radio.” Over the next two decades, Grant Wallace channeled his visions and messages into elaborate portraits, texts, and complex diagrams and calculations. Through his work, Wallace endeavored to prove reincarnation, extraterrestrial life, and the coexistence of the living with the dead.

This symposium will explore the life, work, and cultural milieu of this enigmatic creator, featuring presentations by:

🔹Curator and gallerist Frank Maresca

🔹Writer, critic, and artist Lucy Sante, author of Low Life

🔹Matt Berger, great-grandson of Grant Wallace

🔹Art Historian Susan Aberth, professor at Bard College, author of Not Without My Ghosts

🔹Robert Cozzolino, curator of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art

🔹Practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins, who will lead us on a guided meditation allowing us to engage in some artistic channeling of our own

Ricco/Maresca’s Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio is the first gallery exhibition ever to be mounted of the artist's work. It features 31 works from a collection that was recently discovered by Wallace's great-grandchildren.

Image: Grant Wallace, “A More Splendid Race" (detail), ca. 1919 - 1925, courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery | © Berger Wallace Art Collection

From our online programming: "William Hawkins: Drawings"More information 👉 Link in profile •••William Hawkins’s main sou...
09/10/2022

From our online programming: "William Hawkins: Drawings"
More information 👉 Link in profile
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William Hawkins’s main source of inspiration was the print media of his time, the pictures in newspapers and magazines that he retrieved from the trash stored in a suitcase.
Before starting to work on a painting, Hawkins would often work out basic compositional problems on paper. The drawings presented in this online exhibition were always meant to be the beginning of a process that was wonderfully spontaneous. When asked about art-making, the first thing the artist would say was that he had been drawing all his life. This was true. Even though he did not start painting in earnest until the late 1970s (he was always a hard, industrious worker and never had the luxury of time), drawing could be done anywhere, quickly.
It was never Hawkins's intention to sell his drawings, so he didn’t treat them with particular care—he might have been working on one while eating lunch or dinner. There is nothing "precious" about the artist's work, and this extends to his drawings. It’s also true that they are as fearless and whimsical as his paintings are.
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Join us this evening at our gallery space (6-8pm) for the opening reception of "Paddy Bedford: Ancestral Present." Prese...
05/06/2022

Join us this evening at our gallery space (6-8pm) for the opening reception of "Paddy Bedford: Ancestral Present." Presenting important paintings by the late Australian Indigenous master Paddy Bedford.
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