Ricci Albenda

{{Short description|American painter and sculptor}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Ricci Albenda

| birth_date = 1966

| nationality = American

| education = Rhode Island School of Design

| occupation = Contemporary visual artist and sculptor

}}

Ricci Albenda (born 1966) is an American contemporary visual artist and sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://www.fawbush.com/artists/ricci_albenda.pdf |title=Ricci Albenda |publisher=Editions Fawbush |accessdate=2014-01-25}} He specializes in three-dimensional representations of distorted architectural spaces and walls of words. His work has been covered by the New York Times repeatedly, which said "[t]he effect is cool, weird, magical" about a project in PS1 and "it's a warped, sexualized, through-the-looking-glass version of the chaste but uninnocent 'white cube' space of modern art" about the reviewed work which, however, "doesn't look nearly as good, but it shares similar features, and is based on ambitious ideas";{{cite news |author=Holland Cotter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/arts/art-in-review-ricci-albenda-tesseract.html |title=ART IN REVIEW; Ricci Albenda – 'Tesseract' – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=2001-02-02 |accessdate=2014-01-25}} "very fetching;"{{cite news |author=William Zimmer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/02/nyregion/art-when-daily-life-is-examined-closely.html |title=ART; When Daily Life Is Examined Closely – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=2000-07-02 |accessdate=2014-01-25}} "the words come and go, and the wall seems to buckle and swell."{{cite news |author=Holland Cotter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/arts/art-review-architectural-visions-keep-dreamers-awake.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=ART REVIEW; Architectural Visions Keep Dreamers Awake – New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=2002-07-12 |accessdate=2014-01-25}} He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. He is represented by the Andrew Kreps Gallery.{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewkreps.com/artists_portfolio.html?aid=52 |title=Andrew Kreps Gallery |publisher=Andrewkreps.com |accessdate=2014-01-25}}

He had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from November 16, 2001 to January 22, 2002.{{cite web |url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/projects/ricci-albenda/ |title=Projects |publisher=MoMA |accessdate=2014-01-25}} On Friday March 21, 2008, he opened his back yard to the public as an adjunct to an exhibition at the Horticultural Society of New York.{{cite press release |url=http://www.hsny.org/pdfs/AlbendaPressRelease.pdf |title=Ricci Albenda |publisher=The Horticultural Society of New York |accessdate=2014-01-25}}