Jill Ricci

One of the most arresting visuals for me is an old wall layered with papers, graffiti and text- our modern hieroglyphics. I try to re-create this beauty in my work, the layers of time and decay are what interest me. I hope that the person viewing my work will linger, trying to discover hidden imagery and text and depending on their life experience, find their own meaning or interpretation.

Found images and objects function as signifiers of both individual and collective experience. By incorporating materials that are linked to the realities of daily life, I strive to establish an immediate identification between the viewer and the work of art. I am exploring the place between “high art” and popular culture, text and image, figuration and abstraction, past and present , and two and three-dimensional space.

I begin working without a final vision in mind: I use collected materials and allow pattern, texture, color and structure to emerge organically. In this current body of work, I want the pieces to evoke an old wall in Morocco, a Renaissance Church, a NYC subway wall and Malibu Barbie all simultaneously existing on one canvas.
“There exists an obvious struggle between the natural world and that which we build and construct. Living in the modern world forces us to find a balance. Ricci’s work accomplishes just that: it’s at once elegant and gritty; urban and earthy. And the real treat of Jill’s pieces, is that each time you revist the piece, you will likely find something you had never noticed before.”- Emily Asher Neiman, Director Asher Neiman Gallery

Jill Ricci is also the co-director & co-owner of Parlor Gallery

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:

Gallery Orange, New Orleans

Jules Place, Boston

Blue Gallery, Kansas City

Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park

Asher Neiman Gallery, NY
Exhibition History / Artist Resume

SELECTED Solo / Two person Exhibitions

2013 Pop-Up, Asher Neiman Gallery, Chicago

2012 Gallery Orange, New Orleans

2012 “Salavation”, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park

2012 “Intermix”, Tria Gallery, NY

2011 “Entice”, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park

2011 VERGE Brooklyn , Artist Project Space , DUMBO

2011 Asher Neiman Gallery, Pop-Up, Chicago
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2010 Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park

2008 Asher Neiman Gallery, Red Bank

2007 Exhibit A Gallery, Asbury Park

2007 Art Forms Gallery, Red Bank , NJ

Group Exhibitions

2013 May 4 , Gallery Orange, New Orleans

2013 SCOPE NY, Parlor Gallery

2012 Tria Gallery, New York

2012 DEC. Jules Place, Boston

2012 “Local Color”, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

2011 “Elusive”, Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

2010 Designer Showcase, Asher Neiman Gallery, NY

2009 Asher Neiman Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

2009 Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

2008 Asher Neiman Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

2006 Art Forms Gallery, Red Bank , NJ

2004 Shore Institute Contemporary Art, NJ

Corporate Collections

L’Auberge Hotel & Casino, Baton Rouge, LA
Melting Pot, Red Bank , NJ
Jeffrey Marks Interiors, Hoboken, NJ
Kaufman Segal Design, Chicago , IL.
Ron Seymour Photography, Chicago, IL.
D & S Graphics, Chicago, IL.
Bloomer’s, Oak Park , IL.

Education
Smith College, Northhampton, MA, 1989
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 90’/91’