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Ricci Albenda
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The work of Ricci Albenda entrances viewers by way of hypnotizing architectural installations, paintings, and text. He considers himself a Perceptualist “explor[ing] the fundaments of cognition whether they are linguistic, visual, spatial, or otherwise.” In 1996 he developed an alphabetic colorization system for his paintings called COLOR-I-ME-TRY to mathematically code each letter he used to the color spectrum. This rubric changes slightly per series of paintings, and words and phrases are most often layered upon a monochrome field, challenging the personal and visual associations the viewer might have attached to the letters on display. The artist pursues suspended belief in art and the ways in which a suggestion, be it an installation of a horizon line in a gallery or a three-dimensional environment drawn upon a flat wall, can present a fictive arena.
Albenda has been exhibiting in prominent New York institutions since the early 1990s and internationally for over two decades. He has shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Cestello Di Rivoli, Torino, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Centre Georges Pompidou, …
The work of Ricci Albenda entrances viewers by way of hypnotizing architectural installations, paintings, and text. He considers himself a Perceptualist “explor[ing] the fundaments of cognition whether they are linguistic, visual, spatial, or otherwise.” In 1996 he developed an alphabetic colorization system for his paintings called COLOR-I-ME-TRY to mathematically code each letter he used to the color spectrum. This rubric changes slightly per series of paintings, and words and phrases are most often layered upon a monochrome field, challenging the personal and visual associations the viewer might have attached to the letters on display. The artist pursues suspended belief in art and the ways in which a suggestion, be it an installation of a horizon line in a gallery or a three-dimensional environment drawn upon a flat wall, can present a fictive arena.
Albenda has been exhibiting in prominent New York institutions since the early 1990s and internationally for over two decades. He has shown at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Cestello Di Rivoli, Torino, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Israel. He has also participated in SITE Santa Fe (2004) and Greater New York at MoMA PS 1 in 2000. Albenda won the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award 1999–2000.
Born 1966
Hometown Brooklyn, New York
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1988
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