Lee Godie, Oh! Frenchie Frenchie, ca. 1985
Altered photo booth self-portrait. 43/4″ x 3 3/4″.
Courtesy of Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

ON VIEW

VERNACULAR WOMAN

Dedicated to the pioneering work of Sidney Janis and the Janis Gallery
Extended through March 21

Presenting depictions of women by self-taught, outsider, and anonymous artists in various media. Including works by Morris Hirshfield, Martín Ramírez, Bill Traylor, William Edmondson, Louis Michel Eilshemius, Mary T. Smith, Lee Godie, Helen Rae, and Renaldo Kuhler among others.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION SAMPLE ON ARTSY

PRESS

Ken Grimes: Alien Variations

“For nearly 40 years, Grimes has been making paintings and drawings, many in monochrome black and white, that examine the evidence of phenomena just beyond the ken of human science. With ominous titles like What’s the frequency? (1997), a probable reference to the 1986 assault on newsman Dan Rather, and text-heavy renderings of everything from galactic radio maps to figures borrowed from Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893), Grimes’s paintings define a territory between document and paranoid fantasy, between photography and fine art.”
—Lyle Rexer

Ken Grimes, Epsilon Eridani, 2019. Ink on paper.
12 x 9 inches.

A cultural history of the ubiquitous,
unloved wire hanger

“Maresca, whose Ricco/Maresca Gallery is known for showcasing contemporary outsider art, mounted one of Diamant’s wire hangers on the white gallery wall. Encouraged, he pinned up 169 more. Soon Maresca had an exhibit (‘Out of the Closet: American Hangers’) and an accompanying write-up in the New York Times. ‘Stop laughing,’ reporter N.R. Kleinfield told readers. Within a few days, thanks to, ahem, wire services picking up the story, the exhibit went the print-era equivalent of viral.”

-Dan Greene

ART FAIRS

February 27 – March 1
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY 10011

As a new ADAA member and first time participant at the upcoming Art Show, Ricco/Maresca will present a one-person booth of the work of Martín Ramírez. Hailed as “simply one of the greatest artists of the 20th century” by critic Roberta Smith and honored with 5 USPS® Forever Stamps, Ramírez 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.

Martín Ramírez. Untitled (Man at Desk), ca. 1950. Colored pencil, graphite, and crayon on paper. 35 15/16″ x 24 1/8″.
Ex-Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

March 5 – 8
Spring Studios
50 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013

Art world debut of the work of Argentinian artist Domingo Guccione (1898 – 1966). Guccione was a musician and a mystic with no training in visual art and very little knowledge of art history. The oeuvre that he left behind (produced between 1930 and 1955) is a compelling display of geometric abstraction, but made entirely without awareness of it and during the years when this movement blossomed in Latin America eventually transcending its European roots.

Domingo Guccione. Untitled, ca. 1930-55, colored pencil and graphite on paper. 25.5″ x 19.6″

EVENTS

SUNDAY MARCH 1, 1PM
TALK AND Q&A WITH
CRITIC EDWARD M. GÓMEZ
The Art Show at the 67th St. Armory
Booth A11
As part of The Art Show’s “Meet the Artists” collaborative event, author, scholar, and curator Edward M. Gómez will conduct a talk, followed by a Q&A, about the life and art of the self-taught master Martín Ramírez
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MARCH 5-8
NADA NEW YORK GALLERY OPEN
Ricco/Maresca will participate in the Gallery Open event organized by the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA). This edition brings together over 60 art galleries, non-profits, and alternative spaces across the city.
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WE ARE MOVING

April 1

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