UPCOMING EXHIBITION
GERALD SLOTA: AFTER
ON VIEW: NOVEMBER 29 – JANUARY 5
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY DECEMBER 6, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Ricco/Maresca is pleased to announce “After,” an exhibition of recent photo-based works by contemporary artist Gerald Slota, curated by W.M. Hunt, former director of photography at the gallery. Slota describes the body of work presented in “After” as minimal and quiet. In the search for this new vocabulary, he seems to have opened a door spiritually and visually; seeing and searching out color in previously unexplored ways. Slota’s process of constructing images by building up and taking away finds balance in the inclusion of figurative elements, such as door hooks and lawn ornaments located in fields of color, which are then marked with unsettling fragmentations or interventions of lines and borders that the artist draws or lays in.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Closing Soon
October 18 – November 21
Included in Artnet’s “Editor’s Picks”
Beatrice Scaccia grew up in Castelmassimo-Veroli, a small town in central Italy. The artist’s process begins with letting go of rational thought; only images, never concepts, are to be trusted. Solid appearances then become malleable shapes, emerging in monochrome dimensions where color seeps back in cautiously and eloquently. This exhibition presents examples from four distinct series that embody Scaccia’s visual poetics as it navigates between large- and small-scale mixed media works, animation, and immersive installation. It also highlights the artist’s penchant for crafting silent narratives through variations on a theme, as well as her connection to theater and intertextuality.
“BEATRICE SCACCIA’S ART TOES THE LINE BETWEEN ABSTRACT AND REALISM” – ELLE DECOR
NOTEWORTHY
“I wonder, given the differential experience of black and white people in America historically, as well as the absence of a truly independent Black philosophical system that codifies artistic values, if it is possible that even black Americans and white Americans observing from the same social strata really see the same thing when they look at the creations of these institutionally minted ‘modern’ black artists.”
“The Beatitudes of Bill Traylor”
by Kerry James Marshall
Read the full article in Hyperallergic
NEWS
Ken Grimes has been included in the exhibition “Roadside Attraction” (October 15, 2018 – February 7, 2019) at the American Folk Art Museum’s Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City, Queens.
More info.
Grimes was also selected to participate in the 2019 deCordova Biennial, presenting a survey of contemporary artists based in New England.
More info.
Raw Vision Magazine is organizing a film competition on the theme of self-taught artists and outsider art.
For submission guidelines click here.
HASSAN
Ousseynou Gassama, or “Hassan,” was born in a small village in Senegal on a date that is not known. Around 2010 he was seen living in on the streets of a wine warehouse neighborhood in the Port of Barcelona. He was secretive and spoke very little, making and selling his art on sidewalks and spending any small amount of money that he came upon on batteries to listen to music on his radio.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE.