Ricco/Maresca Gallery

About the Gallery
Following in the footsteps of the legendary New York art dealer Sidney Janis, Ricco/Maresca champions and showcases the art of self-taught masters working outside the continuum of art history. The gallery specializes in Outsider, Self-Taught, Contemporary, and historically significant American Folk art in various media.

Over a period of more than 40 years, Ricco/Maresca has helped blur the lines that have habitually separated conventional art-historical categories and “marginal” art. The gallery has carried out this mission through a pioneering program that emphasizes crossover between vernacular and mainstream traditions, the management of key estates (William Hawkins, Martín Ramírez, and Domingo Guccione among them), and seminal books produced with publishing partners such as Alfred A. Knopf, Little Brown and Company, Radius Books, and Pomegranate Press.

Ricco/Maresca Gallery was founded in 1979 on Broome Street, within New York’s then-emerging SoHo gallery district. The gallery relocated to TriBeCa in the 1980s and later moved to Wooster Street in SoHo—which had by then become an established contemporary art hub. In 1997, Ricco/Maresca became one of the first galleries to move to the new Chelsea art district and is currently located at 529 West 20th Street. The gallery participates and has participated in the ADAA Art Show, the Independent Art Fair, the Armory Show, Frieze Masters, Art Chicago, Art Miami, AIPAD, NADA House, and the Outsider Art Fair (New York and Paris).  We work closely with major museums and collectors, and offer services that range from curatorial advisory to collection management, installation design, and conservation.

About the Presentation
Ricco/Maresca Gallery will present work by Trude Viken in a solo presentation at Independent. Viken’s work poses an unsettling yet profound question: What would our fantasies, neuroses, and life experiences look like if they physically manifested on our bodies? Would they appear as thick, new layers of flesh—or in more surreal forms, like a bright red beak? Her art spans textured, distorted portraits to large-scale, otherworldly scenes featuring strange creatures in enigmatic settings. A central theme in her oeuvre is the female figure, which she explores both as a projection into the outside world and as a vessel for interiority. This fascination began with her celebrated Diary Notes series in 2014—and now exceeds 250 moody and fantastical portraits.