Richmond Garrick New Jersey, USA the portraits to emphasize their personality and contribution. The highlight of Richmond Garrick’ s career came when he received a personal signed thank you card from President Barrack Obama for his portrait.
Richmond’ s paintings are a visual metaphor for the oppressed. Against the unthinkable, his work of art examines human conditions and tragedy. They are bold, thickly layered and expressive. He tends to universalize them through both the traditional and abstract techniques. As a result, the process results in heavy textures where the ground becomes a burden for pain and anger. The heavy layered brush-strokes become the syntax for the piece. The physicality of the process makes the dialogue of his paintings engaging, intense and dramatic.
Working with oil on canvas, Richmond communicates his personal reaction to the violence that raged for ten years and caused the death of many people including his own brother. He communicates his reaction through his thick application of slashing, searing paint. In his testimony of war, he continues the tradition of such artists as Francisco Goya, Leon Golub and Sheba Sharrow, whose art counters the militaristic propaganda that too often glorifies the exploits of the battlefield.
In the case of his Historical African- American Portraits, he refers to them as divine conception from the heart under the theme,“ Portraits: Defining the Foundation for Humanity”. The African-American portraits originated while reading his daughters’ assignment packet on African- American Heritage.
Richmond Garrick has always acknowledged the contributions and significance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the like who laid the foundation for all humanity, especially for people coming from other countries. To honor the contributions of these past heroes, Richmond embarked on their portraits humbly using the black ball point pen. Due to his graphic design background, he decided to merge both fine art and graphic design and create the montage effect for the backgrounds of
Richmond Garrick New Jersey, USA the portraits to emphasize their personality and contribution. The highlight of Richmond Garrick’ s career came when he received a personal signed thank you card from President Barrack Obama for his portrait.
Richmond has won many awards including the“ 2011 Alumnus of the Year Award” from Middlesex County College where he served as an adjunct professor for ten years.“ Sierra Leone @ 50 Culture Award” from the Sierra Leone Embassy celebrating 50 years of independence of Sierra Leone.
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