Gallery Artist
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Born
1940 Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1976 University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, BFA
Group Exhibitions
2006
“New Photographs,” Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York
“Tracing Shadows,” Jurasalem, Israel
2005
“Transparencies,” Beacon Firehouse Gallery, Beacon, NY
2004
Benham Gallery, Seattle, WA
Awards & Residencies
Visiting artist, the American Academy, Rome, 2003
Rome Prize in Painting, 1964
Selected Publications
American Primitive: Discoveries in Folk Sculpture. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York: 1988.
Bill Traylor: His Art – His Life. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York: 1991.
American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York: 1993.
William Hawkins. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York: 1997.
American Vernacular: New Discoveries in Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Artists. Bullfinch Press, New York: 2002.
Videos
“Laura Craig McNellis, Painter,” produced and directed by Roger Ricco and Rachael Romero, 2003.
“William Hawkins 1895-1990,” produced and directed by Roger Ricco, 2003.
Selected curatorial, design, and art advisory projects
Co-founder of Ricco/Johnson Gallery, 1981
Co-founder of Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 1985
Presently co-owner of Ricco/Maresca Gallery
Founder and Head of Design, Helix Design Group (home furnishings)
Co-founder Beacon fire house Gallery, Beacon NY
Curator: the CODE show at Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 1995. (One of the first “digital arts” shows ever presented in a gallery. Included the sponsorship of Microsoft, Soft Image, Apple Silicon Graphics and others.)
Museum of American Folk Art, “American Primitive” Exhibition
The Robert Greenberg Collection, NY
The Mendelsohn Collection, Westchester
The William Louis Dreyfus, personal collection and the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC
The Ross Institute, Bridge Hampton, NY.
Nick and Toni’s Restaurant, East Hampton, NY
The Hay ground School, Bridgehampton, NY
“Quell Barn,” home of Stephen Spielberg, East Hampton, NY
Featured in Architectural Digest (Cover)
The Pritzger, “Lake Michigan “ home, featured in Architectural Digest
The Ricco Home, Woodstock, New York, designed by Roger Ricco, featured in Metropolitan Home.
Teaching & Selected Lectures
School of Visual Arts, History of Outsider Art, 2003—present
Yale University Art Gallery
Bard College
Great Hall Cooper Union, NY: "Mindmatters" lecture to the National Alliance for Schizophrenia And Depression (NARSAD), June 2002
New School of Social Research, NY
Cheekwood, Museum, Nashville, TN
Interviews on National Public Radio and “Sixty Minutes’
Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt. Tremper, NY 3-day seminar on creativity April 2005.