NADA New York 2025

Ricco/Maresca presents the vibrant, stylized portraits of previously unknown artist Nelson Patrick Viola. Created in the 1960s using colored pencil and graphite, these chromatic works transform newspaper headshots of women into intimate icons of modernity. Rendered in thick color blocks and sinuous lines, the drawings echo the Pop Art movement’s embrace of mass media and everyday imagery. Viola’s work offers a vivid chronicle of midcentury America—and a rare glimpse into the private world of a self-taught image collector.