Work samples

  • Fool's Paradise
    Fool's Paradise

    a rug tufted and embroidered fiber art piece on cloth stretched over wooden fram  63" x 69"

  • Wonderlust
    Wonderlust
    Exhibiton, Wonderlust, MBartmuseum Installation View
  • Traveling Sideways Exhibiti, Talk Talk
    Traveling Sideways Exhibiti, Talk Talk
    Installation view of Talk Talk, textile piece, rug tufting and punch needle, Traveling Sideways Exhibit. 2022.
  • Prowling the Undergrowth
    Prowling the Undergrowth
    Rug Tufting and Reverse Punch embroidery on Canvas; A Tufted Painting 20Ft X 5Ft. 2020

About Randi

Originally from Boston Massachusetts, I am a artist focusing primarily on painting,  textile, printmaking and mixed-media works. After completing my undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking at Cornell University, I spent a year in Paris working in various Printmaking and Painting Studios until relocating to Baltimore to earn a graduate degree at The Maryland Institute, College of Art. Currently, I am immersed in creating channels between disciplines  by  the forces of play and… more

Magical Thinking

"Magical Thinking"  a solo exhibition at Kent State, Stark, Ohio including mixed-media works and a large 40 ft. wall piece. The exhibit consists of mixed media works consisting of fiber, paint, flocking and beads. A large 40ft. wall piece consists of multiple rug tufted pieces worked in tufting and embroidery to depict a fantastical journey through a day dream, inspired by myth and the subconcious.

  • Magical Thinking
    Magical Thinking

    installation view of wall piece, "Magical Thinking"

  • Instalation view of exhibition Magical THinking
    Instalation view of exhibition "Magical THinking"

    installation view of exhibition "Magical Thinking" mixture of mixed media works and wall installation

  • Installation view Kent state
    Installation view Kent state

    Wide view of Exhibition, "Magical Thinking"  with wall piece installation in the background.  Wall piece is made up of component pieces of tufted cloth. with reverse punch needle.

  • Magical Thinking Install view
    Magical Thinking Install view

    close up of fiber form from "Magical Thinking" exhibition wall installation

  • Magical Thinking
    Magical Thinking

    a large fiber art wall piece made up of component pieces of rug tufting and embroidery.  8 ft by 20ft. wall piece 

  • Magical Thinking
    Magical Thinking

    close up of textile pieces of wall installation for exhibit "Magical Thinking"

  • Fool's Paradise
    Fool's Paradise

    rug tufting and reverse punch needle on cloth 659" X 58"

Wonderlust

A solo exhibition at The Frank G. Buroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum at Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Jan- April, 2023.
The exhibition features two wall sized rug tufted textile paintings along with  18 other works consisting of mixed media  paintings and artist made paper embedded with textile.

The work in Wonderlust was created over the past three years and veers between the recognizable and the abstract. The imagery is derived from the physicality of the world but is guided by the subconscious. I am exploring how abstraction gives form to things residing in and imprinted on our subconscious. Working in a wide range of media, moving from textile and printmaking to painting and mixed media, I use the constraints of each medium to intercede on one another. The structure of collage allows for play and multiple points-of-view, creating a channel to a subconscious world. The structure for these latest works relies heavily on the imprint of organic shapes and forms derived from nature. My art-making process can be related to moving through the woods – both having the nature of a meandering flow. I am working to create a language that reveals itself to me in a ritualistic approach to process with constant recombination of material.

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    wonderlust onlinepic.jpeg
    Exhibition, Wonderlust, MBartmuseum, installation view
  • Wonderlust
    Wonderlust
    Exhibition Installation View, Wonderlust, MBartmuseum,
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    IMG_7571.jpg
    Installation View, Wonderlust exhibition
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    IMG_7599.jpg
    Installation view, Wondrlust Exhibit, MBartmuseum
  • Wonderlust  exhibit install view
    Wonderlust exhibit install view
    Installation View, Wondeerlust Exhibit, MBartmuseum
  • Installation View Wonderlust Exhibition, MBartmuseum
    Installation View Wonderlust Exhibition, MBartmuseum
    Installation view of rug tufted paintings, Wonderlust exhibit
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    IMG_7606.jpg
    Installation View of Wonderlust Exhibit, MBartmuseum
  • Yellow Plunge
    Yellow Plunge
    Oil paint on velvet, on canvas,24" X36" 2022
  • 7.Ebullience.jpg
    7.Ebullience.jpg
    Ebullience, 60” x 44”, acrylic and oil paint, flocking, and yarn on canvas, 2022.
  • Glimmering Shift
    Glimmering Shift
    mixed media painting with acrylic and oil paint with microbeads on panel 24" x36" 2022

Traveling Sideways

A solo exhibition, "Traveling Sideways"  at The Painting Center"  in New York City, 2022.  The work in this exhibit is a range of mixed-media paintings incuding rug tufted paintings and artist made paper with pulp painitng and embedded textile.
The works present a wide range of images and processes, moving from printmaking, painting and mixed media, using the constraints of each medium to intercede on one another. The structure of collage, across all media, allows for play and multiple points of view in a work, creating a channel to a subconscious narrative. Color and pattern direct these works into woven collaged elements that build on the last layer, inviting the viewer into this fantastical world built from a shared experiences and visceral connections. Increasingly, mixed media has manifested in the paintings, blurring the line between painting and object.
 
  • Traveling Sideways
    Traveling Sideways
    Installation view of "Traveling Sideways"
  • Traveling Sideways
    Traveling Sideways
    Installation View, mixed-media painting and textile on canvas
  • Traveling Sideways
    Traveling Sideways
    Installation view of Exhibit. mixed media paintings
  • Talk Talk
    Talk Talk
    rug tufting on canvas, 4.5 ft x 11ft. fiber art
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    8.GlimmeringShift.jpg
    Glimmering Shift, 36" x 24" mixed-media, acrylic and oil paint, microbeads on panel, 2022
  • 9.ayellowplunge.jpg
    9.ayellowplunge.jpg
    A Yellow Plunge, 24" X 36" oil paint and oil stick on velvet on canvas, 2022.
  • 4a.Astonefromthesky.jpg
    4a.Astonefromthesky.jpg
    A Stone from the Sky, 63" x 57",mixed media painting, oil paint and flocking on canvas. 2022
  • Installation View, Traveling Sideways
    Installation View, Traveling Sideways
    Installation view of Exhibition, Traveling Sideways.
  • Talk Talk, detail
    Talk Talk, detail
    detail of rug tufted painting, Talk, Talk,
  • detail view Talk Talk
    detail view Talk Talk
    detail of Talk Talk, a textile piece

A Visceral Pursuit, an Exhbition The Painting Center NYC

A Solo Exhibition, "A Visceral Pursuit"  at The Painting Center in Chelsea, NY.  September 2020
This exhibition was a mixture of Mixed-Media Paintings and Textile works in Rug Tufted paintings.
The works in this exhibit explored the multiple processes and substances I use to create a painting.  The flow between different materials and a rhythmic play between the unconscious and the real substance is integral to these abstractions. I called this Visceral Pursuit because the work attempts to make visible what I feel is a feeling or thought just beyond words.
  • Installation view, A Visceral Pursuit
    Installation view, A Visceral Pursuit
    Installation View , "A Visceral Pursuit" mixed-media painting, pulp painting and oil on velcet
  • Installation View of A Visceral Pursuit
    Installation View of A Visceral Pursuit
    installation view of exhibit, oil paint, pulp painting rug tufted painting and oil on velvet.
  • Installation View A Visceral Pursuit
    Installation View "A Visceral "Pursuit"
    Installation View of Exhibit, Rug tufted Paintings
  • Installation View A Visceral Pursuit
    Installation View "A Visceral Pursuit"
    Installation View of A Visceral Pursuit" mixed-media painting, punch embroidery pieces and collage painting
  • UnRemitting
    UnRemitting
    Unremitting, oil and pigment on canvas, 64" X 52" 2020
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    9.Intercession.jpg
    Intercession,pulp painting on handmade paper, 50" X 24" 2019
  • Fool's Gold
    Fool's Gold
    Fools gold, rug tufting, yarn and canvas on board, 24" x24
  • 7.Blue Velvet
    7.Blue Velvet
    Blue Velvet, oil paint and pigment on velvet on canvas, 40" X 30" 2019
  • Lift Off
    Lift Off
    Lift off rug,rug tufting and punch needle, yarn and canvas on board, 60" x43" 2019
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    1.Sauntering.jpg
    Sauntering, oil on canvas, 24" x30"2018

Prowling the Undergrowth

A Rug Tufted Wall Piece, designed for The Greenbelt Art Center, Nov.2021-Jan. 2022. Rug Tufting and Reverse, Punch embroidery on Canvas. 2021 with Mixed Media Paintings.

A bit about this textile work...

‘Prowling the Undergrowth’ is a piece that was realized in 2020 and worked on intensely for a matter of months. I relish my time time moving through woods, observing the structures and shapes of, and between,  trees and plants that loosely hold together, recognizing the duality of stagnation and movement. Trying to capture many moments in time, in one piece, is always a puzzle to solve and a constant element in collage, a form that enters into my painting format frequently.  Nature  certainly has a steady and profound effect on us and I wanted to relay this through a physically large, tactile work. I love that it is finally installed in a community, a word that has been hard to realize in the physical sense, these past two years. I hope the viewer brings their own experiences when surrounded by this tactile work.

  • Prowling the Undergrowth
    Prowling the Undergrowth
    Rug Tufting and reverse Punch Embroidery on Canvas, wall piece 20' X 5'
  • Prowling the Undergrowth, detail
    Prowling the Undergrowth, detail
    detail of Rug tufted wall piece
  • Prowling the Undergrowth, detail2
    Prowling the Undergrowth, detail2
    detail of rug tufted painting
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    detail of Prowling the Undergrowth3
    rug tufted painting
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    Prowling the Undergrowth detail, 4
    rug tufted painting
  • Prowling the Undergrowth detail
    Prowling the Undergrowth detail
    rug tufted painting
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    detail Prowling the Undergrowth
    detail of rug tufted painting
  • Prowling the Undergrowth
    Prowling the Undergrowth
    rug tufted painting detail

Rug Tufting Paintings

I continue to work using embroidery in my works on canvas, working with punch needle and rug tufting.  I see these as paintings in yarn and plan to continue with mixed media sewn works combining paint on canvas with rug tufting and using both sides of the loom.
  • Prowling the Undergrowth
    Prowling the Undergrowth
    rug tufted and reverse punch needle wall piece, 20 ft. x 4ft. 2020.
  • Walking the Dog
    Walking the Dog
    rug tufted painting with reverse punch needle on board, 12" x 18" 2021
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    Hue250 copy.jpeg
    , Hue 350, 75”x 63” rug tufted painting and punch needle on cloth, 2021
  • Lift Off
    Lift Off
    rug tufting, punch needle and embroidery. 5' X 4" 2019
  • detail of Lift Off
    detail of "Lift Off"
    detail of "Lift Off" rug tufting, punch needle and embroidery
  • detail of lift off
    detail of lift off
    detail of lift off, yarn and canvas, rug tufting
  • That Hour.jpg
    That Hour.jpg
    Rug Tufted painting with reverse punch needle, 35" X 30" 2021
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    tuftedterrain.jpg
    rug tufting on panel, 18" X18" 2020
  • 2.Fool's Gold copy.jpeg
    2.Fool's Gold copy.jpeg
    Fool’s gold, 24" x24" rug tufting, yarn and canvas on board, 2019
  • Moonlight
    Moonlight
    Reverse Punch Needle Embroidery, 28" x22" yarn and canvas 2019

Recent Paintings

These latest works combine abstraction and illusion in a somewhat theatrical or surreal event. Working in a collage sensibility, images coalesce and collapse almost simultaneously, skirting the edge of illusion and abstraction. Fragments of paintings, drawings both hand and digital, play a big role in the crafting of space in these works. Each painting attempts to hold on to a moment led by the subconscious and bordering on slipping away.

  • Unremitting
    Unremitting
    Unremitting, 64" X 52" oil and pigment on canvas, 64" X 52" 2020
  • Ceremonial
    Ceremonial
    Ceremonial, 58” x58”, acrylic and oil paint with flocking on canvas, 2022.
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    6aMagentamountain.jpg
    Magenta Mountain, 60” X42”, acrylic and oil paint with flocking on canvas,
  • The Crow's Hour
    The Crow's Hour
    The Crow's Hour, 24" x36" oil paint on velvet on canvas, 2020.
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    6.Dorothy's Table copy.jpeg
    Dorothy's Table Mixed media, acrylic and oil paint, microbeads on Panel, 24" x 36" 2020.
  • 8.GlimmeringShift.jpg
    8.GlimmeringShift.jpg
    A glimmering glimpse, 40” x 30” oil paint and microbeads on panel, 2022.
  • 7.Ebullience.jpg
    7.Ebullience.jpg
    Ebullience, 60” x 44” acrylic, oil paint, flocking and embroidery on canvas, 2022.
  • A Stone from the Sky
    A Stone from the Sky
    A stone from the sky, 64” x 52”, Acrylic and oil paint with flocking on canvas, 2022.
  • Sleeping Giant
    Sleeping Giant
    oil and sand on board, 18" X 18"
  • The Swan
    The Swan
    oil on canvas, 12"x18"

Pulp Painting and Artist-made Paper

This work is made in collaboration with Reading Road studios. I continue to work with Reading Road studio to explore the media of handmade artist paper.  This media is a great playgound to explore textile, paint and printmaking.  My recent work has explored textiles embedded in the pulp paper works.
  • Catching Sight
    Catching Sight
    pulp painting on artist handmade paper with embedded textile needlepoint. Catching Sight,  20” X 23”  pulp painting with embedded needlepoint, on artist made paper, 2022. 
  • Precipice
    Precipice
    Precipice,  30’ x 24”   pulp painting with embedded needlepoint on artist made paper, 2022 
  • At Midnight
    At Midnight
    Hand Paper Making with pulp painitng andith embedded needlepoint. 40" X 45" 2021
  • I Shout
    I Shout
    hand paper making, pulp painting with embedded needlepoint. 40" X 45" 2021.
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    cropped view of 3PM
    pulp painting on handmade paper,
  • intercession
    intercession
    pulp painting on handmade paper, 2019
  • Through the Palms
    Through the Palms
    pulp painting on handmade paper, 18" x18" 2019
  • Blue Palms
    Blue Palms
    pulp painting on handmade paper, 18" x18" 2019

Recent copperplate, solarplate and monoprints

This series represents recent work in printmaking.  They are primarily Artist proofs 1/1 as they are experiments from some recent artist editions. Specifically, three of these prints are chine colle experiments and all are some form of photopolymer etching.
  • Paper Boy
    Paper Boy
    Paper Boy, AP1/1, 22” X 30” (unframed) solarplate etching with chine colle and stencils, 2016
  • The Dive
    The Dive
    copper etching and aquatint on Rives BFK 22" X 30"
  • Return of Screaming Donkey
    Return of Screaming Donkey
    Copper etching, soft ground and aquatint
  • Plaid paper tree
    Plaid paper tree
    chine colle and etching on Rives BFK 22" X 30" 2017
  • Looking for a Herd
    Looking for a Herd
    monoprint and photopolymer etching on rives BFK
  • Splotchy
    Splotchy
    etching and stencils on Rives BFK 29" X 41"