Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
EXHIBITS
2024 Transform Any Room
GROUP EXHIBIT Des Moines Arts Center
2024 This is Everything - video
South Bend Museum of Art
2023 In the Palm of Your Hand
GROUP EXHIBIT Women's Studio Workshop
2023 Some Things Last A Long Time
SOLO EXHIBIT Berman Museum of Art Pennsylvania
2023 Lucky 13
GROUP EXHIBIT Paradigm Philadelphia
2023 Small Is Beautiful
GROUP EXHIBIT 718 Broadway New York
2022 Many Happy Returns
GROUP EXHIBIT Marginal Utility Philadelphia
2022 The Extra Ordinary
2 PERSON SHOW John Michael Kohler Arts Center Wisconsin
2022 Confections and Mementos
GROUP EXHIBIT James Oliver Gallery
2021 I Will Always Love You
SOLO EXHIBIT Paradigm Gallery Philadelphia
2020 Telling Stories From Scraps
SOLO EXHIBIT Philadelphia Airport Philadelphia
2019 Hopelessly Devoted to You
SOLO EXHIBIT Conduit Gallery Dallas, TX
2019 Objects In Mirror Are Clser Than They Appear
SOLO EXHIBIT Wrong Marfa Marfa, TX
2019 Come Talk to Me
SOLO EXHIBIT - Huddle Gallery Philadelphia
2018 PULP & PROCESS
GROUP SHOW Society of Arts + Crafts Boston
2018 Badass Miniatures
GROUP SHOW D. Thomas Fine Miniatures Cold Springs, NY
2018 FASTER, FASTER
GROUP SHOW Wignal Museum Contemporary Cucmongo, CA
2018 Don’t You Frget About Me
SOLO EXHIBIT Morris Adjimi New York
2018 PIECEMEAL
GROUP SHOW Indianapolis Art Center Indiana
2016 UNLISTED
GROUP SHOW ICEBOX Project Space Philadelphia
ANIMATIONS
2023 BUT CAN YOU GO BACKWARDS
animated short Official Selection Walla Walla Film Festival
2022 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
animated short Official Selection Twin Cities, Arizona International, DC Independent, SFiFF
2020 PANTYHOSE
animated short Official Selection San Francisco Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival
2019 DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
animated short Official Selection San Francisco Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival
BIO
Lydia Ricci. Ricci’s small scale sculptures present familiar objects at unfamiliar scales that depict the recent past with hazy familiarity. She learned to deal with some of the more stressful aspects of life by looking to the past. Her tiny mementos (don’t call them miniatures), are objects that relate to a visceral memory – an intense phobia, or maybe an experience that changed her life. Their resemblance to the original is uncanny, while veering far away from the meticulous technique of model replicas, built to some fraction of scale. These works aren’t as much scientific as they are tiny tributes. Each piece is sized to exactly how big the object, and the memory needs to be; and small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.
Made from paper, glue, broken staples, and the back-side of almost anything, her collage-like sculptures of everyday objects aren’t precious or precise, but rather rough-and-ready approximations that somehow feel more true than exact recreations. They’re messy and imperfect —just like our memories.
Lydia Ricci is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. In addition, Ricci studied design in St Gallen, Switzerland and printmaking in Cortona, Italy. She works as an artist and outside of Philadelphia, PA and teaches courses in branding, design, and storytelling at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her sculpture has been exhibited in galleries in New York, San Francisco, Marfa, TX, Boston and Philadelphia, and featured in publications including The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and Vice. Her animations have been included in The San Francisco, Mill Valley and Philadelphia Film Festivals.