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Organization / Workplace
Willingboro, New Jersey
Occupation
Professional Fine Artist/Adjunct Professor & Teacher
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Professional Artist/Professor & Teacher
Richmond Garrick is a professional artist who works in all media, but mostly in oils. He draws on personal history for subject matter, which tends to be both emotional, and psychological. They are considered to be "Expression of Oppression, A Metaphor for Thinking About The Unthinkable".
The paintings he creates are activist paintings and they are a visual metaphor for the oppressed. They examine human conditions, tragedy and Insanity. He looks at humanity inflicting pain on fellow human beings with sadistic pleasure. The images are bold, thickly layered and expressive. He tends to universalize them through both traditional