Jackie Riccio interdisciplinary/painter (muraLOVE)

I am an interdisciplinary craft based artist, working within a body of painting, installation, and
textiles in my personal practice and as a community organizer.

I consider my two-dimensional work as interdisciplinary drawings, no matter what materials went into its creation. Drawings that map out space, and the relationship of all things within our lived existence. Drawing includes subjects like color, shapes, objective reality, emotions, senses, and ideas. In my created spaces, I investigate abstraction of a series of seemingly unrelated subjects. This builds visual narratives that highlight the similarities between our personal perceptions that unite our species across a shared human experience.

My formal education was in printmaking, including a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Printer Training Program (PTP) at The Tamarind Institute of Fine Art Lithography here in Albuquerque. This has shaped how I create images, layering and building subjects on a field as if split out of multiple matrixes. Out of this education I began working collaboratively alongside artists of a variety of mediums. Working in four very different artist collectives since 2015 has given me the insight of how to facilitate collaborative works, organize large scale creative residencies, understand the rules of the gallery, break all the rules of the gallery, and open up community crafting initiatives. These experiences have run alongside my personal creative practice, feeding it, and providing opportunities to expand my work.

I am currently developing a warehouse studio in Albuquerque called the Land of Plenty that houses my painting practice, community textile workshops such as Leftover Sewing, and a community reusable bag making project, as well as a wood shop. Land of Plenty is working toward becoming a venue for free community crafting workshops with the aim of engaging the community through opportunities to learn how to create and fostering communities for DIY creative exchange.