The artist, acclaimed for works that are both graphic and politically charged, was born in Augusta, Georgia, grew up in Riverside, California, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York, where he often combines abstract and figurative elements in bold colors with those sharp boundaries. “My ‘Icons’ and ‘Beacons’ feature the figure in the foreground with radiating lines in the background in contrast, generating dynamism and energy,” says Gatson, who completed an MFA at Yale, where he studied sculpture before branching out into video, digital photography, painting, and collage, all of which still figure in his output.
