Rico Gatson
Rico Gatson bụ ónyé na-ese ihe dị iche iche na-arụ ọrụ na Brooklyn, New York, ónyé ọrụ ya sitere na nzụlite ya na Africa America. Site na nka ya, ọ na-enye nkọwa mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya n'oge ndị dị mkpa n'akụkọ ihe méré eme Black. Ọrụ ya na-ejikọta ụkpụrụ ndị a na-adịghị ahụ anya na agba dị egwu, nke na-emepụta ọrụ esemokwu nke na-ezo aka na omenala na akụkọ ihe méré eme nke ndị Africa America.

Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ 
A mụrụ Rico Gatson na Augusta, Georgia na 1966 mana o tolitere na Riverside, California. Nné na nnà ya, ónyé nọọsụ na ónyé na-arụ ọrụ n'ọhịa, kwagara n'Ebe Ọwụwa Anyanwụ n'oge Nnukwu Migration wee sonye na ndị Black nke dị n'etiti ọhụrụ. N'afọ 1980, ọ gara Betel College na Minnesota dị ka ónyé na-agụ akwụkwọ. Ọ gbanwere akara ugo mmụta ya site na eserese eserese gaa na nka ihe osise, na-enweta nzere Bachelor nke Fine Arts na 1989. Màkà nzere Master of Fine Arts ya, ọ gàrà Yale School of Art na 1991. N'oge ọ nọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ, ọ mụrụ ihe ọkpụkpụ n'okpuru onye na-ese ihe David von Schlegell.

Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Franconia Sculpture Park, Taylor Falls na 1998 ma bụrụ ónyé na-ese ihe na-ebi na Wright Museum of Art nke Beloit College. Mgbè nke ahụ gasịrị, Gatson gara n'ihu n'ọrụ nka ya na Bushwick, mpaghara Brooklyn na New York City.

Ihe osise 
Ọrụ nka Gatson na-enyocha isiokwu nke akụkọ ihe mere eme na njirimara ndị isi ojii. Ọtụtụ n'ime ọrụ ya na-akatọ ikpe na-ezighị ezi n'akụkọ ihe méré eme nkè ndị Africa na America na-ezo áká na ọdịbendị ndị isi ojii site n'iji ihe oyiyi nke ndị ama ama, ọgba aghara, na imewe akwa Africa. N'ụzọ ejiji, ọrụ ya na-ejikarị usoro geometric doro anya, na-arụ ọrụ na echiche na abstraction, iji tinye ọchịchọ ịmata ihe omimi n'ime ónyé na-ekiri ya. Akụkụ ya na-ekwusi ike na-adọrọ mmasị ndị na-ekiri ya na ihe ndị a na-ahụ ányà iji mesie ọnọdụ mmekọrịta ọha na eze na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ha ike mgbe e mesịrị.

Íhé Nríte 

 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award for Visual Artists, 2001
 Onyinye vidiyo Prized Pieces site na National Black Programming Consortium, Columbus, OH, 1991
 Oil Bar Ltd. Onyinye maka Ịdị Mma na Ihe Ọkpụkpụ site na Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 1991
 Pew Charitable Trust Graduate Fellowship, 1990

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