Untitled 10.4.25 (Diptych)

Bryan Ricci

40″ x 64″

Raw Pigment, Polymer Emulsion and Dyed Linen on Canvas

In Untitled 10.4.25, Bryan Ricci creates small, deliberate strokes that gather across the surface, accumulating into layered fields of blooming color. These marks oscillate between presence and dissolution, creating an intimate and expansive rhythm.

Ricci’s palette shifts across the canvas, producing subtle emotional registers. The repetition of short, clustered strokes establishes a pulse that guides the viewer’s eye, suggesting movement through time rather than space. Areas of dyed linen remain visible beneath the paint, grounding the composition in materiality and emphasizing the physical labor and restraint embedded in Ricci’s process.

Untitled 10.4.25 recalls the atmospheric sensitivity of Mark Rothko’s late paintings, the accumulated gestures of Joan Mitchell, and the meditative repetition found in postwar abstraction. Ricci’s work favors fragmentation and quiet modulation over monumental declaration.

Presented as part of Mash Gallery’s group exhibition Rhythmic Contours, the painting expands the exhibition’s investigation of line and rhythm into a contemplative register. Here, rhythm emerges through the steady layering of gesture and color. The painting invites sustained viewing, revealing new relationships as the eye adjusts to its internal cadence.

Untitled 10.4.25 is a work that rewards closeness and time, offering a quiet intensity that continues to unfold long after the initial encounter.