Background

Randall was born in 1955 in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in San Pedro, California and Baton Rouge, Los Angeles. Today he lives and works in New York.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1977. Master of Fine Arts, Texas A&M, 1979. SUNY Empire State College, Fine Art (Painting) New York, New York, United States.

Career

Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2012. Artist, painter, New York City, since 1980. Guest critic, the studio program State University of New York at Empire State College, New York City, 1982. Adjunct faculty, studio program Empire State College, 1983.

Primarily abstract and surrealist painter. Live and work in New York. Studio Assistant to NY Abstract Expressionist and Colorist, Ray Parker during the late seventies and early eighties in New York. Present work is multiple panel landscape-mural painting installations.

Guest lecturer University New Orleans, 1984. Guest critic & lecturer E.Tex. State University, 1984. Guest critic & lecturer, Bennington College, Vermont, 1992, Maryland Institute Graduate School Fine Arts, Baltimore, 1991, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1992. Guest lecturer at Parsons School Design, New York City, 1996, the State University of New York at Purchase Graduate & Undergrad. Schools, New York, 1997, United States Consulate General, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000, Delgado College, New Orleans.

Works

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  • Visitation | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    (Visitation 1988 Acrylic, oil, wax crayon, and metallic ...)

  • Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA

    (A Crank Toy Box 1987 oil on canvas 84 x 84 inches © R...)

  • Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

    (Courtier's Room 1986 60 x 54 inches oil on canvas © R...)

  • New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

    (The Street 1988 oil on canvas 81 x 101 inches © RANDA...)

  • (MoCA) Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

  • Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara, NY

  • Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA

• Other Work

  • Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

    (Parallel Voyage 1989 oil on canvas 72 x 72 inches © R...)

Membership

President, Valatie Economic Redevelopment Association (V.E.R.A.), 2013-—present.

Member Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, 2003—present.

Trustee, Valatie Free Library, Kinderhook, NY 2007—2013

Connections

Father:

Kenneth Howard

Mother:

Doris F. Schmit