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RICO GATSON : GHOSTS

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19 November - 19 December 2020
  • RICO GATSON

    GHOSTS

    19 NOVEMBER - 19 DECEMBER 2020

  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, Rico Gatson: Ghosts, 19 November – 19 December 2020

     

  • Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend, Rico Gatson: Ghosts

    Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

    Rico Gatson: Ghosts

    Until 19 December at Miles McEnery Gallery, 520 West 21st Street, Manhattan

    Rico Gatson works across painting, sculpture, video and collage, often using abstraction as a means to explore the Black experience in America. In his show at Miles McEnery, he demonstrates how he has been able to use the same visual lexicon developed in works past to investigate Blackness in its relationship to the mystical, opening doors to see how one experience may bleed into the next. 

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    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Magic Mountain), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Magic Mountain), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Transparent Bodies), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Transparent Bodies), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Magic Diamonds), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Magic Diamonds), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Ghosts After Albert Ayler), 2020 Acrylic paint and glitter on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Ghosts After Albert Ayler), 2020
      Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Fiery Fire), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Fiery Fire), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Young Mystics), 2020 Acrylic paint and glitter on wood 36 x 80 inches 91.4 x 203.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Young Mystics), 2020
      Acrylic paint and glitter on wood
      36 x 80 inches
      91.4 x 203.2 cm
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  • 'The triangle for me is a symbol that represents any number of things historically, but in a nutshell, it's a...

    "The triangle for me is a symbol that represents any number of things historically, but in a nutshell, it's a symbol of good and evil. The upright position traditionally represents good, and the subverted one represents evil. I like the idea of this occurring in both directions in the works. Deconstructing symbols over the course of my career, specific forms have come to have specific meaning, but they also kind of dissolve in the repetitive rendering. I am trying to subvert or play with symbols of power."

    - Rico Gatson

    • Rico Gatson Untitled (Freedom Rainbow), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (Freedom Rainbow), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Rico Gatson Untitled (North Star), 2020 Acrylic paint on wood 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Untitled (North Star), 2020
      Acrylic paint on wood
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
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  • 'I think about magic from the standpoint of an awe-inspiring thing that occurs upon something in nature. Magic is the...

    RICO GATSON, Untitled (Flag III), 2020, Acrylic paint on wood, 36 x 48 inches, 91.4 x 121.9 cm

    "I think about magic from the standpoint of an awe-inspiring thing that occurs upon something in nature. Magic is the hidden, or invisible, that's sort of around us, the spirit, the soul. Energy."  

    - Rico Gatson

    • Rico Gatson Albert, 2020 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Albert, 2020
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Ntozake, 2020 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Ntozake, 2020
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Eric, 2018 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Eric, 2018
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Zora #2, 2020 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Zora #2, 2020
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson John, 2020 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      John, 2020
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
    • Rico Gatson Diahann #2, 2020 Color pencil and photograph collage on paper 22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches 56.2 x 77.2 cm
      Rico Gatson
      Diahann #2, 2020
      Color pencil and photograph collage on paper
      22 1/8 x 30 3/8 inches
      56.2 x 77.2 cm
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  • RICO GATSON (b. 1966 in Augusta, GA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bethel College in 1989 and...

    RICO GATSON (b. 1966 in Augusta, GA) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bethel College in 1989 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale School of Art in 1991. He also completed his artist residency in 1998 at Franconia Sculpture Park, Taylor Falls, MN and in 2013 was the Ginsberg Artist in Residence at the Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); “My Eyes Have Seen,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY; “Rico Gatson: 2007-2017,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; “Power Lines,” Samsøñ Projects, Boston, MA; “Rico Gatson: When She Speaks,” Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY; “The Promise of Light,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY; “2013 Ginsberg Artist in Residence, Rico Gatson,” Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; “RICO GATSON: Three Trips Around the Block,” Exit Art, New York, N Y and “History Lessons,” Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, V T

     

    His work is included in the permanent collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Bethel College, St. Paul, MN; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; Denver Art Museum, Denver CO; Kempner Museum, Kansas City, MO; Malcolm X Institute, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

      

    He is the recipient of many awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award for Visual Artists; Prized Pieces Video Award from the National Black Programming Consortium; Oil Bar Ltd. Award for Excellence in Sculpture from Yale School of Art and the Pew Charitable Trust Graduate Fellowship.

     

    Rico Gatson lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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