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b. 1966, New York
Born on January 24, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, Ricci Albenda studied sculpture and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a B.F.A. in 1988. Early projects drew from Conceptual art [more]. In Think (1995), he drove a cargo truck around Manhattan, stopping from time to time to serenade passersby with his recorded voice singing popular songs; in the back of the truck were canvases on which the song lyrics were painted in white against a black background. This presaged his sculptural deployment of text in works such as Portal/Kilogram and Jai-alai (both 1998), in which typewritten words were distorted using Photoshop and then applied on gallery walls. Recently, Albenda has concentrated on abstract sculptural forms built into gallery walls, as in Tesseract (2001). The artist's exposure to architecture during his years at RISD has informed large-scale installations such as Action at a Distance (2000), an enclosure of curving white walls created for Greater New York at P.S. 1 in New York. Albenda produced similar non-Euclidean manipulations of space and perspective for the Projects series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2001. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
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