UPCOMING
SHUT UP:
JOE MASSEY’S MESSAGE FROM PRISON
Opening – September 12, 2019
Massey (1895 – ?) was an African-American self-taught artist and poet who created a compelling body of work during his incarceration at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. As an inmate, Massey engaged in a years-long correspondence with Charles Henri Ford, the editor of the pioneering surrealist publication View, which resulted in the eventual inclusion of Massey’s art and poetry in issues of the magazine between 1943 and 1946.
On view: September 12 – October 19, 2019
CLOSING SOON
“All my work begins with my dreams recorded in sketchbooks with narratives and drawings,” writes the artist. “These dreams are often prophetic, telling me where I need to travel to work – to make one world, one cosmology, where the seen and the unseen co-exist.
NEWS
Our new collaboration with Demisch Danant, an exhibition titled “Jazz,” highlights the unrecognized affinities between French 1950s furniture design and works depicting architecture by William Hawkins.
OPENING SEPTEMBER 10 at Demisch Danant
30 W 12th St. New York, NY 10011
(On view: September 10 – October 19)
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PRESS
Ricco/Maresca Gallery has been selected as an exhibitor at The Art Show 2020. We look forward to bringing our program to the fair for the first time.
February 27 – March 1, 2020
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave (at 67th Street)
New York, NY 10065
We are pleased to announce that we are now members of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
Ross also recently directed and participated in the project Mesa: an Ode to Xochimilco, for Coche Comedor in Amagansett—recruiting artists whose work abounds in color and abstraction and following in the tracks of so many artists who have been historically based on the eastern end of Long Island. [MORE]
Clarence Schmidt’s environment, “The House of Mirrors,” is featured in the exhibition “Art Brut XXL” (June 28 – September 22) at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. Featuring large format photographs of art brut environments from various parts of the world. [MORE]