Randolph Black
autobiographical retrospective
Current Thoughts
Work in Progress: "Treated Novel: The Sheltering Sky (Dedicated to John Cage)" 2021-2022 Status: Paintings completed "Story" being written John Cage, 1976, Philadelphia lecture
"Vales and Hollows"
2021-2022 Limited Monoprint Book of Poems
Starting 2017: Black Paintings
Copper covered aluminum, oil paint, chance 36 x 36 x 1/16
zoom avant: Extreme Details of Paintings
I imagine a microscopic landscape collaboration between the artists Brice Marden and John Baldessari. oil on canvas 24 x 30”
Fallen Trees
A series of photographs, word pieces and a novel draft, related to Hurricane Irene, the October Nor'easter of 2011 and Hurricane Sandy of 2012. Projects depict the uprooted trees, thousands of faces in a crowd and the story of a homeless individual caught in the middle.
Identifying and Not
1 - The helmet is absent a Knight. The porcelain is a double profile of the artist Bruce Nauman. 2 - Gun painting address the phallic and vulva with printer's jargon, while the central 'space' is derived from Michelangelo's newly discovered drawing at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. The negative space is an invented series of breasts, penis's, devils and poppy flowers. 3 - Brancusi on a table. 4 - Islamic sympathy.
In Performance, John Cage, 4'33'
MoMA, 2013
early 2000's: Eight New Jersey Poem Paintings
After a period of personal and global conflict, a basic premise without text and a nod to local cultural institutions.
Late 90's: AERIAL PAINTINGS
A visit to Perth Australia provided a new model for landscape abstraction. Includes watercolors, and oil paintings such as “Fire Island”,”Mapping”, "Double France", "Whistler over Madrid", "Perth", (Triptych), "Carol, Lake Erie"
Mid 90's: Works on paper and wall constructions
Early 90's: West Broadway studio
“Resonator and Sconce”
GRAY ART GALLERY Washington Square Park
Catherine street loft, works
Late 80's:
Mid 80’s: Singular objects with non-objective abstraction.
Early 80’s: Non-creative. 'Marxist Labor' intensive drawings. art about art.
About
Graduated from the School of Visual Arts after studying with Ray Metzker, Keith Sonnier, Jackie Winsor, Bill Beckley, Leandro Katz, Joseph Kosuth, Elizabeth Murray, worked for Mary Boone, Leo Castelli, David Salle, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Americas Society, Montclair Art Museum, Guggenheim Museum, MoMA and the 9/11 Museum. I come from a family and community of artists and musicians.
Contact
- West Orange, New Jersey, United States