In our fifth installment of CLOSER we speak to Adrian Ricca Lucci about his artwork, Tissues (2024), on display in Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries.

In the Fall of 2024, UNMAM issued an open call for students to create works on paper (drawing, prints, photographs) in response to Helen Frankenthaler’s prints for the Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries exhibition. Interested applicants were invited to respond to Frankenthaler’s use of color, philosophy, technique, or materials.

Three students were selected: Adrian Ricca Lucci (BFA student in painting and drawing), Brianna Tadeo (third-year MFA student in photography), and Yoma Wilson (second-year MFA student in printmaking).