News & Events

Currently on View in Pittsburgh

In Pittsburgh, you can find my work on view at:

Rare landscape art at Ibiza Restaurant in the South Side, 2224 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA.

"Girls+Apples" pieces at SUGAR Boutique in Bloomfield location on 3703 Butler Street.

And, FemArt collection at Your Inner Vagabond, on 4130 Butler St at 42nd.

New blog "Pure Rubbish"

I started a new project with writer Danielle Commisso called "Pure Rubish", a collection of non-sensical but sensible poetry and art. Please check it out for a new kind of something. From the blog:

"Pure Rubbish is a collaboration between writer Danielle Commisso and artist Joana Ricou. Please enjoy with crumpets and scones, large hats, and tiny cups of tea.

Or, perhaps you might prefer to take a vested academic interest, which rest assured, is at least worthy of a good psycho-analytical spanking.

Abandon your sense, but not your senses."

January 2008 : NY and New Work

Fall'07 was spent in New York where I was fortunate to work with Kathleen Cullen at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts. I'd like to invite to drop by if you're in NY - you will find KCFA on 26th St and 10th Ave. The address is 508 West 26th St, Suite 5A, in Chelsea. In the few months of my participation we put together some great shows and I had the opportunity of meeting and seeing a ton of art and art people. I hope to return in the end of Winter for the art fairs.

I am currently back in Pittsburgh with many plans for art making (and science educating)!


A new season of shows approaches, and more details will be posted soon. In the meantime, I continue intrigued as ever with line drawings and simple compositions with lines, bodies and symbols. For a peek at my current direction, please visit my blog Art in Progress at http://jricouart.blogspot.com

Sep 21 - Update

I will be in NY for the next three months (until November), where I am working at a gallery in Chelsea, very exciting and interesting! Expect new shows and works only in 2008!..

Sep 4 - "Back to School" @ LaVie

"Endless Summer is finally ending!
Join us for the Back to School Show: Saturday, September 8, 2007
www.laviepittsburgh.com

Anthony Leone - Geometry
Tommy Bones - Geology
Renee Ickes - Anatomy
Joana Ricou - Biology
Mike Budai - Playing Hooky
Travis Hite - Physical Education
Edgar Um - Political Science
Alice Winn - Literature
Craig Kirby - Psychology

Live music by The Indulgents, libations provided by the Brillobox, and lunch-box style food." - La Vie press release

July 12 - Added new piece and new blog posting

A new piece is under works, in the continuation of the female art project, I am combining the line drawings and the oil painting. I made a post about this work, go here for this.

I also added a 2006 piece entitled "Spines," this piece was inspired by the notion that the spinal cord is about the width of our thumb and some of our cells run almost the full height of our body. This panel is actually part of a three-panel but the side panels are not included.

July - August - "Reflections..." at 707 Penn Ave

"AAP is an official partner for the Year of the Glass, high-profile pronotional effort that will be focusing attention on the arts and cultural activities in the Pittsburgh region for 2007. In July, AAP will be having a non-juried exhibition for members only, titled "Reflections." "Reflections" will be held at the Gallery 707, a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust." - From AAP web site.

The gallery's hours:
Tue - Thur 11 am - 6 pm
Fri and Sat 11 am - 8pm
Sun and Mon: Closed

June 15th - SUGAR boutique acquired the "Apple Tree" frame

SUGAR boutique from Butler St, that participated in Artwalk has acquired the frame I created for the fashion show! It now adornes one of the store's windows, paired with Susan Englert's creation! See the SUGAR web site here.

June 6th - Acceptance into Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

I'm pleased to announce I was accepted into the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh!

"The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh is the largest group of visual artists in the Pittsburgh region. Our almost 500 members represent creative talent in all artistic media – a term than continues to change rapidly in this information age.

The purpose of the association, which was founded in 1910, is to foster a love of the fine arts and to advance art in the region. The group is governed by a volunteer board of directors, each of whom is either an artist or community member, elected for a term of three years. Officers serve for one year. A part-time administrator coordinates business activities." - from the AAP's web site

See AAP's web site here >>

June 9th - Added slideshow of Angles

Added a slide show of some of the pieces from "Angles", see Past Shows >>

June 4th - First photos from Artwalk

The event was a huge success! We had a great turn-out and the work on display received many compliments.

Thank you to Anne Savage, Julia Huswitt and Susan Engert for tirelessly putting this event together, and bringing artists, designers and performers together in such a neat way.

The piece to the left "Apple Tree" was a natural succession of my recent work with the Eve and Pandora themes. Instead of focusing on creating postures and encounters of the body with the apple, I focused on creating a setting with apples, alluding also more directly, albeit in a very transformed way, to the idea of the tree.

The creative constraint in this project was to create a "frame" only of two sheets of corrugated white plastic, that would have an opening of about 2ft by 4ft in the middle, through which the models could view artwork and be viewed by the audience. The tree shape was conceptualized as a 3D drawing, in which instead line defining shape as in 2D, the shapes were cut out and their volume created the line mark. The different models interacted with the tree and created their own encounters. Depicted is a moment of me, modelling LucidWare (Emilee Kohan and Danielle Comisso). See the show! >>

May 13th - New Works!

I added most of the work from the most recent shows. "Eve" on the left is from the new series of "Girl + Apple." This series was shown at ModernFormations this March in the show Angles!

New additions, the new pieces from "Connect":

And a new series of drawings "Girl + Peacock feathers":

March 7th - Prints for Sale

Two pieces have been made available as prints!

PRINTS $30
The piece to the left ("Girl painting her toenails") is now available as a print! This piece is not available for sale, and has been published through Encyclopedia Destructica (see their site). This is a signed, limited edition of 50 copies.

"Girl painting her fingernails"
Ink on UltraSmooth FineArt paper
9.5 in x 8 in
$30 (does not include shipping)

These prints are made with archival-grade inks and on UltraSmooth Fine Art paper, which is my favorite kind of print paper (very heavy and pleasant to the touch).

"Mouse Hippocampus (Cover image)" Print $50
This image (without the type of the magazine) has also been made into a print! This will be a signed, limited edition of 75 copies.

"Mouse hippocampus" print is:
11 in x 13 in
Ink on photo glossy paper (a heavy, softly glossy paper)

Please e-mail for purchase at jiricou@gmail.com, thank you!

 

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