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ichmond Garrick is primarily a painter. He was formally trained at Milton Margai Teachers College in Sierra Leone where he recieved his Higher Teachers Certificate. He later obtained a bachelors in fine arts from Montclair State University, and recieved his masters degree from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Presently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Middlesex County College and also a Graphic design teacher at Williamstown High School.
ichmond works in oils and his new paintings organize and constitute a manner of language/discourse visually, and expressionistically that addresses issues of inhumanity. His paintings possess a testimonial quality specific to a political, cultural crisis. They engage his struggle to understand the nature of these events, and irrationality to subject fellow human beings to such indignities. Such violence and horror go unchecked while the perpetrators continue to commit such indignities with sadistic pleasure.
is imagery and forms are comprised of the victims from his country, where such indiscriminate and irrational killing was the modus operandi for over a decade. These images become a “metaphor for the unthinkable.” He renders these figures in thick paints used impulsively and driven by strong emotions due to his symbiotic connection to such tragedies. The angry juxtaposition of brushstrokes help to convey the feeling of anger, agony, aggression and pain.
Richmond has won several awards which include the 1998 Lajos Markos Art Foundation Scholarship for representational art, Dean John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award, which honors the artist for outstanding graduate artistic achievement, and also Montclair State University School of the Arts Advisory Board Talent Award.
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