NOW ON VIEW
VERNACULAR WOMAN
January 17 – March 5, 2020
Dedicated to the pioneering work of Sidney Janis and the Janis Gallery
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.
Pictured:
Morris Hirshfield. Harp Girl II, 1945. Oil on canvas. 34″ x 25″
PRESS
The Outsider Art Fair 2020
The Outsider Art Fair, up at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea until Sunday, is still one of the best deals in New York: compact, but filled from edge to edge with things to see. You can brush up on the heroes of the genre — work by self-taught artists — [including] a gorgeous, never-before-shown Martín Ramírez drawing of a cowboy on a rearing purple horse at Ricco/Maresca (A11).
— Will Heinrich
Martín Ramírez. Untitled (Horse and Rider), 1954. Pencil, colored pencil, collage, and crayon on paper. 26 1/8″ x 30 1/8″. Ex-collection Guggenheim Museum
On view: the Outsider Art Fair in New York
Ricco/Maresca Gallery had brought the work of another Gugging Artist, Leopold Strobl, whose métier was clipping photographs from newspapers and coloring over them with a palette of yellows, green, and black (and sometimes red). Often, a dark obelisk-like form squats ominously in the middle of the compositions, which are small enough to recall hand-colored postcards from the early twentieth century.
SAVE THE DATE
As a new ADAA member and first time part participant at the upcoming Art Show, Ricco/Maresca will present a one-person booth of the work of the self-taught master 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 institutionalized at the DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, CA. His rhythmic drawings and collages cross over seamlessly into the modern/contemporary arenas. This exhibition will include works depicting Ramírez’s iconic images of arches, trains, tunnels, and caballeros.
February 27 – March 1, 2020
Park Avenue Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street
New York, NY 10011