@RiccoMaresca ’s booth at Independent, presenting new work by @Trude_Viken . Open by invitation today (5/14) and open to the public Friday through Sunday (5/15 - 5/17).
Pier 36 - 299 South Street, NYC.
🔗 More info - Link in profile
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In her “Night Blonde” portraits, Viken uses thick, volatile surfaces and distorted blonde protagonists to expose the psychic strain beneath femininity as performance. In the “White Scene” paintings, she expands that charged emotional world into pale, theatrical allegories where comedy, menace, tenderness, and instability collide.
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@independent_hq #TrudeViken #art #contemporaryart #painting #portraits
Final hours of the @OutsiderArtFair —last chance to see @RiccoMaresca ’s presentation at Booth B10, with significant works by James Castle, Franne Davids, Henry Darger, William Hawkins, Renaldo Kuhler, Martín Ramírez, Achilles Rizzoli, Drossos Skyllas, Bill Traylor, Willem van Genk, Grant Wallace, and Purvis Young, among others.
Spanning private cosmologies, compulsive architectures, invented systems, and fiercely individual modes of picture-making, these works reveal the singular force and formal reach of self-taught art.
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#outsiderart #artfair #exhibition #outsiderartists #OAF2026
#SarahTheresaLee. “We’ve Been Expecting You,” 2026. Acrylic on wood panel. 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.9 x 29.8 cm).
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We’re excited to include five new works by @SarahTheresaLee in Ricco/Maresca’s presentation at the upcoming @OutsiderArtFair (March 19 - 22 • Booth B10).
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This painting recasts the clinical ward as a coolly deranged stage set, where nursing becomes a choreography of possession rather than care. The disembodied head, metronomic timepiece, and didactic “Mind” diagram conspire to collapse psychiatry, spiritualism, and domestic ritual into a single, meticulously patterned hallucination, leaving the viewer unsure whether they are witnessing treatment, collusion, or initiation.
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A self-taught painter and psychiatric nurse based in London, Sarah Theresa Lee (b. 1980) conjures domestic interiors that dissolve into unsettling theaters of psychological suspense. Her figures—masked, doubled, or disembodied—hover between mischief and menace, costume and confession. Lee’s motifs accumulate with ritual force, transforming ordinary objects into charged emblems of unease and desire. Drawing on pulp illustration and mid-century horror cinema, she has developed a visual language where the comforts of home slip into surreal ritual and macabre humor.
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#art #painting #outsiderart #delusions
Thanks to everyone who joined us last Saturday for an unconventional talk led by writer and scholar Matthew Spellberg on the life and work of William Kent. Full recording coming next week.
Today is the last day to see “William Kent (1919 - 2012): Trust the Peeple!”
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Join us today, Saturday February 28 (4-5pm) for an unconventional talk with writer and scholar Matthew Spellberg. An exploration of the life and work of artist William Kent (1919 - 2012)—at once a passionate American patriot and an otherworldly hermit—who spent fifty years alone in a barn in rural Connecticut producing a vast body of prints and sculptures. Over that half century, Kent articulated—in wood and satin rather than words—a philosophy and a radical politics rooted in a disarming proposition: if we can free manmade objects from man, then they can free us from ourselves.
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#WilliamKent #event #gallerytalk #politicalart #art
Ricco/Maresca presents The @RussiHive , a new filmed podcast launching on March 5. 🔗 Subscribe everywhere at the link in profile.
Every other week, Alejandra Russi (@Ale.Russi ), our Media Director, sits down with creators across mediums—and singular minds from unexpected corners—to talk about how ideas arrive, how taste gets trained, how work survives doubt, and what happens in the long middle, when nobody is watching.
The set roams throughout the gallery, rebuilding itself each time—an ephemeral architecture—with our exhibitions as a living backdrop. True to Ricco/Maresca’s 40+ year history of championing the overlooked and challenging the usual hierarchies, The Russi Hive follows creativity wherever it shows up: in art, in work, in obsession, and in the way a life is made.
🥂 Special thanks to the teams at @CottonDesignInc for so brilliantly bringing the brand’s visual identity to life, and to @Antfood.Music for their luminous interpretation of the podcast’s sonic world.
T-minus 7 days till launch 🚀
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Opening tonight • January 15, 6–8 pm.
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“William Kent: Trust the Peeple!” in Gallery One brings together Kent’s explosive slate-cut political prints from the 1960s—fluorescent, blunt, and uncannily current. Carved in reverse into salvaged classroom blackboards and printed onto patterned fabrics, these works turn the cheerful surfaces of mid-century domestic life into a caustic stage for power, patriotism, and persuasion. Photograph of the artist: courtesy of the William Kent Art Foundation.
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“Alfred Neumayr: Unnamed World” in Gallery Two moves in the opposite register: quiet, patient, and expansive. Neumayr begins with “nothingness”—not as a void, but as a charged starting point—and circles it with ink until something like a world appears. Built line by line on paper, cardboard, and canvas, his drawings hover between pattern and apparition: crowds or constellations, terrains or nebulae, mythic figures that never quite settle into a single story. Photograph of the artist: courtesy of Marco Prenninger.
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#WilliamKent #AlfredNeumayr @galerie_gugging #artgallery #openingnight #artexhibition
While most of the art world is currently getting a tan in Miami, we’re here in New York with a different kind of glow.
At Ricco/Maresca, “Franne Davids: A Theater of Faces,” brings together intense, intimate portraits and self-portraits painted in the last decade of her life. These are small works with huge presence— oil layered on paper until the faces seem to materialize out of color: unblinking and mysterious…
If you’re not in Miami this week, come stand in front of these faces and let them look back at you.
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Franne Davids (1950-2022) created an enigmatic body of work shaped by a life of isolation, vivid fantasy, and mental illness. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the late ‘70s, she spent decades in her basement studio, painting lush scenes of tightly-knit female figures in surreal interiors. Her art, influenced by an inner world of voices and imaginary friends, reflects vibrant patterns and raw expressiveness. Davids left behind an astounding oeuvre that only now sees the light of day.
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🍷Join us tonight (Nov. 20, 6-8pm) for the opening reception of “Franne Davids: A Theater of Faces” in Gallery One and “James Castle: The Architecture of Silence” in Gallery Two. More info: link in profile.
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On view for two more days: “Sarah Theresa Lee: What Big Eyes You Have,” the artist’s haunting New York gallery debut.
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Last few days to see “Morris Hirshfield: Brooklyn Tailor,” a historic gallery exhibition featuring the visionary, pattern-rich paintings that earned Hirshfield a MoMA retrospective in 1943, just six years after he began to paint.
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In a fit of Halloween delirium, the staff of Ricco/Maresca slipped across the threshold of our current exhibition, “Sarah Theresa Lee: What Big Eyes You Have.”
For a moment, the distance between artwork and witness vanished, and everything—painting, costume, presence—belonged to the same surrealist séance.
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#Halloween2025 #SpookySeason #WhatBigEyesYouHave #SarahTheresaLee #LifeImitatesArt
