Rico Gatson home sweet home       photo: rico gatson     Rico Gatson utilizes a variety of materials and proccesses in his work. In this show he will present video installations, slide projections, drawings, as well as architectural elements that expose issues born out of the American suburban psyche. He challenges the racial and political ideas that drive our subjective and prejudiced views of "Home Sweet Home" by isolating nostalgic, almost cloying, elements of our heritage then charging them with satire. His creative witt and ironic use of iconic racial imagery transcends the subject to become more than merely political art. In his earlier work Gatson dealt with the exaggeration of the black image in popular American culture, especially historical blackface. In his new work he will explore issues dealing with racial identity as viewed by the popular culture. This obviously can be very tricky and dangerous territory, but his use of repitition, accumulation and humor transforms meaning, not to hide but to make more relative his caricaturization of prejudice.
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