UPCOMING
THOMAS LYON MILLS: LIMINAL SPACE
JULY 11 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JULY 11, 6-8PM
“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. Once my dreams have led me to a site, I develop my pieces slowly, carrying them back and forth between sites, cross-pollinating ideas, locations, and subject matter – all united in the studio. Time is no longer linear, but elastic, continuous and circular.”
CLOSING SOON
NEWS
We are pleased to announce that Ricco/Maresca Gallery is now a member the Art Dealers Association of America.
NOTEWORTHY
“If a work of architecture, loved or hated, has the weight and personality of an aesthetic object, which the Williams-Tsien building did, it should be considered ‘museum-worthy’ and preserved.
There was another factor that made its loss regrettable. The work it housed — by folk artists, self-taught artists, and so-called outsider artists — was not only deeply charismatic, but filled out the story of Modernism in a way that MoMA itself, in recent years, has largely neglected to do.” – Holland Cotter [READ MORE]
“Now considered one of the most important outsider artists of the 20th century, Martín Ramírez spent the last 15 years of his life in DeWitt State Hospital in northern California where he was diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic … he created hundreds of drawings that are now prized for their visual acuity and their combination of Mexican folkloric imagery, Modernist aesthetics, and all-too-relevant commentary on border relations and the state of mental health system.”
“Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” the documentary film by Jeffrey and Jeany Wolf, recently won the Jury Prize for Freedom in the Fine Arts Film Festival at the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art in California.
Beatrice Scaccia is now in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art.
Pictured right: Eve Drinks, 2014. Pencil, pastel, oil, gesso, and wax on paper. 29 3/4″ x 22 1/4″.
Scaccia is also included in the exhibition Eco Shifters, curated by Debora Hirsch at Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato in Cima Norma SA, Switzerland.
“Eco Shifters” refers to the ability to interact, adapt, transform and create new relationships with the environment.[May 25 – October 12, 2019]
ARTIST UNKNOWN
47 Vintage Toy Illustrations. German, ca. 1930-40.
Unique paper collage with painted details. 11 1/2″ x 18″ (ea.)
Produced by a toy manufacturer, possibly as a catalog.
Sold as a group, currently unframed.
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ROSIE CAMANGA
Rosie was thoroughly original. Humorous and tough-minded, he survived for decades in control of his own game in a volatile honky-tonk environment. A sense of sly humor helped keep him afloat—once he told a health inspector that the powdered charcoal used to apply stencils to the skin came from the barbecue. Rosie’s flash, from early examples (none of his work is signed or dated, but clues exist from dates or events depicted in the designs), segued from standardized versions of classic tattoo designs to eccentric and mysterious scenarios that were his alone.
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