Ricco/Maresca is pleased to present Evidence for Contact, a retrospective exhibition organized on the occasion of the release of a major book by the same title. Published by Anthology Editions (October 24, 2023), this volume is entirely devoted to the life and 40-year career of Ken Grimes.
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Grimes was born in New York City in 1947 and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. For several decades, he has diligently maintained a stark palette of black and white, which he believes is the most direct way of showing the contrast between truth and deception. Only recently, he ventured into a new series of works that incorporate basic colors to the same end. The artist’s paintings and works on paper, which oscillate between whimsical and stern—but are often both—are conceptual, never-ending variations on the themes of extraterrestrial intelligence and cosmic coincidence.
Grimes's work is in the permanent collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the American Folk Art Museum. In 2018, the artist's work was selected as one of the exhibitions in a six-part yearly series titled “Field Station” at Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. In 2019, he was invited to participate in the deCordova Museum Biennial.
OPENING RECEPTION & BOOK LAUNCH:
OCTOBER 26, 6 - 8 PM
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Untitled (Secret radar jamming experiments), 2020Acrylic on canvas20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)(KG 541)$3,000 -
Untitled (Green bank ET radio signal), 2020Acrylic on canvas20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)(KG 542)$3,000
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Untitled (Radio signal from Epsilon Eridani), 2020Acrylic on canvas20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)(KG 543)SOLD
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Throw the Switch, 2010Acrylic on Masonite48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)(KG 3)$9,000
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Untitled (Asteroid Bombardment of the United States Capitol), 2011Acrylic on Masonite48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)(KG 555)$9,000
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Untitled (Betty Hill Who Claimed She was Abducted by Aliens), 2013Acrylic on canvas49 x 37 in. (124.5 x 94 cm)(KG 59)$9,000
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Untitled ("In order for an alien spaceship to know"), 2020Acrylic on canvas48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)(KG 566)$9,000
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Untitled ("This is a Warning!"), 2023Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)(KG 685)$7,000
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Untitled (The Real Truth About Project Ozma), 2023Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)(KG 694)SOLD
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Untitled ("I Took The Liberty of Enhancing This Photograph"), 2013Acrylic on canvas49 x 37 in. (124.5 x 94 cm)(KG 58)$9,000
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Untitled ("Very often ... behind every great artist is a woman"), 2020Acrylic on canvas40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)(KG 572)SOLD
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Binary Code Series
All Works: 2019. Ink on paper. 12 1/4 x 9 in. (31.1 x 22.9 cm.) • $2,200 ea. -
THE BOOK
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INSTALLATION
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