About Us:
Ricco/Maresca strives to serve as a channel of information in order to improve general education within the art world. Through our newsletter, online magazine, press, and videos, we provide an array of discursive tools to offer insight into the importance of art in contemporary culture.
RICCO/MARESCA was founded in 1979 on Broome Street in New York’s then-emerging SoHo gallery district. The gallery relocated to TriBeCa in the 1980s, then later moved to Wooster Street in SoHo, which by then had become a well-developed center of contemporary-art galleries. In 1997, Ricco/Maresca became one of the first galleries to become established in the new Chelsea art district. The gallery is currently located at 529 West 20th Street.
Following in the footsteps of the legendary New York dealer Sidney Janis, Ricco/Maresca has championed and showcased the art of self-taught masters working outside the art-historical mainstream. The gallery focuses both on significant contemporary art in various media and on historically important American art of the 20th century.
Over a period of 35 years, with publishing partners that have included Alfred A. Knopf, Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, and Pomegranate Press, among others, Ricco/Maresca has produced books that have helped blur the lines that traditionally have separated conventional art-historical categories and vernacular art.
The gallery is a participant in the New York City Armory Show, Metro Show, Outsider Art Fair, Art Chicago, Scope New York, Scope Miami and AIPAD. The gallery works closely with major museums and collectors, and offers services that range from collection management to installation design and conservation.
