06/03/2021
OPENING TODAY (4-8pm):
“No W here: Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, Toni Ross”
This will be our first real opening reception in over a year and in our new, expanded gallery space.
Also🍷 Please join us in welcoming Cavin-Morris Gallery to our building and floor, we are thrilled to have them as our neighbors. Visit their inaugural exhibition “Bosilj: Tales from Parallel Universes,” which will open in conjunction with “No W here” at Ricco/Maresca.
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In late 2019, a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, and Toni Ross met to discuss an exhibition concept that would highlight the influence of archeology in their individual practices. As a prompt, they agreed to each select an artifact from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast collection and respond to it. In a serendipitous event, and to their astonishment, each artist separately chose the Navigational Chart (Rebbilib) from the Marshall Islands.
The title “No W here” is a wordplay coined by Greg Dvorak in his book Coral and Concrete (2018). In this exhibition each artist responds independently to the aesthetic and cultural significance of the navigational chart, ruminating on how the simplicity of its formal properties belies its deep complexity of communication and wayfinding.
Hope’s, Schmidt’s, and Ross’s lives and careers have overlapped for many years; over the past decade they have all had independent solo shows at Ricco/Maresca Gallery. For this project, to minimize their influence on each other, they confined themselves to their own studios—only sharing research and resources virtually.
“No W here” weaves the artists’ singular oeuvres into a cohesive visual narrative; the exhibition is one and indivisible, meant to be experienced in the simultaneity of three visions becoming one—literally and metaphorically. Inspired by the navigational chart, the resulting collective strives to create aesthetic experiences that facilitate recalibration and sense of place in this era of disequilibrium.
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#AliceHope #BastienneSchmidt #ToniRoss #art #contemporaryart #newwork #artcollective #sculpture #mixedmedia #neverseen #navigation #unchartedwaters #navigationchart #wayfinding #maps #patterns #serendipity #visuallanguage #timeandspace #timeandplace #markingtime #compass #destination #hereandnow #creativeprocess #collaboration #thefutureisnow #openingtoday #NoWhereRMG
OPENING TODAY (4-8pm):
“No W here: Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, Toni Ross”
This will be our first real opening reception in over a year and in our new, expanded gallery space.
Also🍷 Please join us in welcoming Cavin-Morris Gallery to our building and floor, we are thrilled to have them as our neighbors. Visit their inaugural exhibition “Bosilj: Tales from Parallel Universes,” which will open in conjunction with “No W here” at Ricco/Maresca.
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In late 2019, a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Alice Hope, Bastienne Schmidt, and Toni Ross met to discuss an exhibition concept that would highlight the influence of archeology in their individual practices. As a prompt, they agreed to each select an artifact from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s vast collection and respond to it. In a serendipitous event, and to their astonishment, each artist separately chose the Navigational Chart (Rebbilib) from the Marshall Islands.
The title “No W here” is a wordplay coined by Greg Dvorak in his book Coral and Concrete (2018). In this exhibition each artist responds independently to the aesthetic and cultural significance of the navigational chart, ruminating on how the simplicity of its formal properties belies its deep complexity of communication and wayfinding.
Hope’s, Schmidt’s, and Ross’s lives and careers have overlapped for many years; over the past decade they have all had independent solo shows at Ricco/Maresca Gallery. For this project, to minimize their influence on each other, they confined themselves to their own studios—only sharing research and resources virtually.
“No W here” weaves the artists’ singular oeuvres into a cohesive visual narrative; the exhibition is one and indivisible, meant to be experienced in the simultaneity of three visions becoming one—literally and metaphorically. Inspired by the navigational chart, the resulting collective strives to create aesthetic experiences that facilitate recalibration and sense of place in this era of disequilibrium.
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#AliceHope #BastienneSchmidt #ToniRoss #art #contemporaryart #newwork #artcollective #sculpture #mixedmedia #neverseen #navigation #unchartedwaters #navigationchart #wayfinding #maps #patterns #serendipity #visuallanguage #timeandspace #timeandplace #markingtime #compass #destination #hereandnow #creativeprocess #collaboration #thefutureisnow #openingtoday #NoWhereRMG
