Wow. The home and collection of Frank Marseca. No home better illustrates the fine line between outsider art/self-taught art and modern design. Just spectacular. Click on the links for the original interview with Frank as it appeared in the New York Social Diary in 2011.

Frank Maresca, part-owner of the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, is one of the leading experts on and collectors of outsider art in the country. He’s something of a natural educator, carefully defining for us the distinction between ‘outsider artist’ and ‘self-taught artist’. His apartment, so restrained and pristine that it is a little eerie, is a kind of foil to the collection of extraordinary work and found objects that he owns.

Original interview in The New York Social Diary with Frank Marseca here

Ricco/Marseca Gallery here

by Sian Ballen & Lesley Hauge • photographs by Jeffrey Hirsch