Unidentified flying objects and stories about their creators go back as far as the Gold Rush in Tuolumne County, KAAD-LP FM radio host David Simerley told a roomful of people
In John Tursi s New Works at Ricco/Maresca, the artist cultivates a sense of movement and psychedelic animation through dense repetition. Simple shapes are plaited into larger patterns that Tursi combines into machinic bodies. Each figure evokes pulsating Broadyway Boogie-Woogies of movement, that systematize the body into reeling conveyor belts of synapse.