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In Color Creates the Light, Ricci utilizes his mastery of color and materials through unique application and layering techniques in which he examines abstraction as metaphor for our memory retention and prioritization. A second body of work utilizes photographs as touchstones of memory while paint and other materials disguise and embellish these memories in and out of our conscious and subconscious.

For me, the paint application works as metaphor for the way we memory is constructed. The raw linen represents my lived experience. The first layer of translucent paint represents the reminiscence …