NOW ON VIEW
FREDERICK SOMMER: VISUAL AFFINITIES
October 24 – November 27, 2019
Visual Affinities, Ricco/Maresca’s second one-person Sommer exhibition in collaboration with Bruce Silverstein, presents a selection of work that reflects the variety of expression in the artist’s practice: from photography, ink on paper and “glue color” drawings (pigment suspended in hide glue), to his “musical score” works.
UPCOMING
ALIEN VARIATIONS
December 12, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Opening Reception:
December 12, 6-8pm
Alien Variations will present works from Grimes’s recent exhibitions at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan State University and the deCordova Museum Biennial. It will also be the debut a new body of work that represents a departure (in size and the use of color) for the artist—who has otherwise diligently maintained a stark palette of black and white for more than 30 years.
Pictured: Untitled (Binary Code), 2019. Ink on Paper. 12″ x 9″
PRESS
SHUT UP: Joe Massey’s Messages from Prison
—Mark Bloch
Raw Reviews | SHUT UP: Joe Massey’s Messages from Prison
—Edward M Gómez
EVENTS
Fountain House Gallery’s
Annual Art Auction & Benefit
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30 – 9:30pm Cocktail Reception
7:00pm Meet and greet Hour with the Artists
Metropolitan West
639 West 46th Street, New York City
Featuring original artwork by
Fountain House Gallery artists
Art Curated by
Jason Rohlf, Artist
Fountain House Gallery helps artists living with serious mental illness heal and build community through art. All gallery artists are members of Fountain House, founded in the 1940s with the belief that people living with mental illness can be active participants in their own and each other’s recovery. Fountain House Gallery embraces emerging, established, trained, and self-taught artists who make vital contributions to the New York arts community. MAD ABOUT ART will feature over 100 original works created by Fountain House Gallery artists living and working with serious mental illness.
Patricia Cresswell. Curious, 2017. Oil pastel on paper. 12″ x 16″
Rene Santiago. Butterfly Nurse in the Desert, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. 14″ x 11″
Drawing Connections
Tuesday, November 19: 6:30pm – 8pm
Inspired by works on paper featured in the exhibition Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. The American Folk Art Museum’s senior curator Valérie Rousseau and Laura Hoptman, executive director of The Drawing Center, will discuss working with drawings and the self-taught artists featured in both Memory Palaces and The Drawing Center’s concurrent exhibition The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists. Following their conversation, exhibition artist George Widener will share his interest in The Magic Square and facilitate a hands-on drawing exercise based on its visual and mathematical principles.
George Widener. Magic Circles, 2018. Mixed media. 38″ x 33″
ARTISTS CHOOSE ARTISTS
Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill, NY
November 10, 2019-February 23, 2020
Members Opening Reception:
Sunday, November 10, 11am-1pm
Artists Choose Artists is the Parrish Art Museum’s triennial exhibition that highlights the dynamic relationships among the multi-generational artist community of Long Island’s East End. Artists Choose Artists is designed to catalyze creative networks and encourage mentorship and conversations between artists at varying stages in their careers.
MORE INFORMATION
Bastienne Schmidt. Untitled, Colored Grids, 2019. Sewn and painted canvas. 36″ x 48″
NOTEWORTHY
“About 30 years ago, as a reasonably young gallerist, I met a collector by the name of William Louis-Dreyfus. I like to think that we changed each other’s lives in significant ways”
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“Back in the mid-1990s, I invited Margit Rowell to visit Ricco/Maresca. At that time, she was the newly appointed Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art”
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“Last night I attended the opening of the new Bill Traylor exhibition at David Zwirner’s uptown gallery. It was a strange, almost out of body experience…”
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Over the years, Ricco/Maresca helped William Louis-Dreyfus build the most important collection of Bill Traylor’s work ever to be assembled by a private individual. In 1990, the gallery published “Bill Traylor: His Art His Life” in collaboration with Alfred A. Knopf, this was the first book of the artist’s work. In 1997, the gallery published a monograph titled “Bill Traylor: Observing Life,” which came out in conjunction with the exhibition “Bill Traylor: An American Prodigy,” featuring more than 50 works from Louis-Dreyfus’s collection.