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RICO GATSON
SPECTRAL VISIONS
8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023
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MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT WORK BY RICO GATSON, TITLED SPECTRAL VISIONS. THE ARTIST'S SECOND SOLO SHOW OPENS 8 DECEMBER 2022 AT 515 WEST 22ND STREET AND WILL REMAIN ON VIEW THROUGH 28 JANUARY 2023. Accompanying the exhibition is A FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FEATURING AN ESSAY BY SIDDHARTHA MITTER.
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"This work is energy work. It is why Gatson holds fast to this modest studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which he has kept for years, with its window that he likens to a readymade. It is why he composes multiple paintings at once, not as a series but as an organism, a whole. 'I want there to be dialogue between things in space,' he says. 'There is a vibration.'"
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Double Consciousness), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Expanded Light Consciousness II), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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RIco Gatson Studio 2022, Brooklyn, NY
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"It’s high summer, and Gatson is working on the new paintings for this exhibition. The stereo plays Coltrane—John today, but Alice is also a favorite. The space is compact—not crowded so much as full, with works set close to one another. Those nearer to completion hang or rest against the wall. Those in earlier stages lay flat on tables and trestles. He has identified the form they will take and established the lines of the composition, but the colors are still hypotheses, some simply tentative letter codes jotted on the surface. They will find their values in the making."
- Siddhartha Mitter in "Undeniable Energy"
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Four Winds), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Luminous Bodies I), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Luminous Bodies II), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Magic Diamonds II), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico Gatson Studio 2022, Brooklyn, NY
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"Triangles and inverted triangles, circles of various diameters, vertical or horizontal stripes in negative space, aligned segments, remain his favored graphical tactics to organize the field. But new things are happening. The overlaps have grown more intense, their geometries more involved. The color decisions are intuitive and irregular. New forms are birthed in the vortex. Some are implicit, relying for their manifestation on the play of optics, the mind’s eye. Others are right there in the design. They break and tumble across the surface. Getting loose. Getting free."
- Siddhartha Mitter in "Undeniable Energy"
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Magic Star I), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Malcolm In The Spirit), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico Gatson Studio 2022, Brooklyn, NY
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Seven Panels), 2022
Acrylic paint on wood, in seven parts
Overall dimensions: 96 1/4 x 128 1/2 inches
244.5 x 326.4 cm
Each panel: 96 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches
244.5 x 29.2 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Spectral Visions), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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RICO GATSON
Untitled (Triple Consciousness), 2022
Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico Gatson, Maya Angelou Beacon, 167th St Subway Station, Bronx, NY
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Rico Gatson, James Baldwin Beacon, 167th St Subway Station, Bronx, NY
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Rico Gatson Studio 2022, Brooklyn, NY
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Rico Gatson in his Studio, 2022
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Rico GatsonUntitled (Double Consciousness), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Expanded Light Consciousness II), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 X 203.2 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Four Winds), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm
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Rico GatsonUntitled (Luminous Bodies I), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico GatsonUntitled (Luminous Bodies II), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Magic Diamonds II), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Magic Star I), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 48 inches
91.4 x 121.9 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Malcolm In The Spirit), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico GatsonUntitled (Seven Panels), 2022Acrylic paint on wood, in seven partsOverall dimensions:
96 1/4 x 128 1/2 inches
244.5 X 326.4 cm
Each Panel:
96 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches
244.5 x 29.2 cm
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Rico GatsonUntitled (Spectral Visions), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm -
Rico GatsonUntitled (Triple Consciousness), 2022Acrylic paint and glitter on wood36 x 80 inches
91.4 x 203.2 cm
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Rico GatsonBell, 2022Color pencil and photograph collage on paper22 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
56/2 x 76.5 cm
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Rico GatsonCicely, 2022Color pencil and photograph collage on paper22 x 30 inches
55.9 x 76.2 cm -
Rico GatsonDon, 2022Color pencil and photograph collage on paper22 x 30 inches
55.9 x 76.2 cm -
Rico GatsonElbert, 2022Color pencil and photograph collage on paper22 x 30 14 inches
55.9 x 76.8 cm -
Rico GatsonIsaac, 2022Color pencil and photograph collage on paper22 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
56.2 x 76.5 cm
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