Randolph Black
Leaning to the Obscure
Self Portrait
I EXPLAIN IT
Watercolor on paper 12 x 48 (4 parts) 2025 - 2026
WITH THE COFFEE GRINDER
IT WAS THERE THAT I BEGAN TO THINK I
COULD AVOID ALL CONTACT WITH TRADITIONAL PAINTING
Current Thoughts
"Treated Novel: The Sheltering Sky (Dedicated to John Cage)" 2021-2025 Painted Paperback John Cage, 1976, Philadelphia lecture
Chance Story
Seizing The Sheltering Sky Random single word extraction from left side page of "Sheltering Sky" 2025
"Vales and Hollows"
2021-2022 Limited Mono Print Book of Poems A Collaboration with the late Michael Baker
Starting 2017: Black Paintings
Copper covered aluminum, oil paint, chance 36 x 36 x 1/16
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.
In Performance, John Cage, 4'33'
MoMA, 2013
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
Catherine Street
Mid 80’s: Singular objects with non-objective abstraction.
Early 80’s: Non-creative. 'Marxist Labor' intensive drawings.
Schooling
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 Memorial and Museum. I come from a family and community of artists and musicians.
Contact
- West Orange, New Jersey, United States