About Randi

Baltimore County

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

A Visceral Pursuit

Exhibition at the Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC. September1-September 24 th 2020
  • A Visceral Pursuit
    A Visceral Pursuit
    An installation view of, "A Visceral Pursuit" THe Painting Center, NYC 2020

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
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    detail of "Lift Off"
    detail of "Lift Off" rug tufting, punch needle and embroidery
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    detail of lift off
    detail of lift off, yarn and canvas, rug tufting
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    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
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    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.
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    8.GlimmeringShift.jpg
    A glimmering glimpse, 40” x 30” oil paint and microbeads on panel, 2022.
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    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 experiments in Paint

These works are a contination of fusing moving elements of abstracted narratives into dense paintings.  Multiple media are used to combine for a sense of constant movement and change.
  • Constricted
    Constricted
    Oil on Panel
  • Open Wide
    Open Wide
    acrylic and oil on canvas 48” x 40” 2017
  • Boing
    Boing
    pigment, rabbit skin glue, acrylic and oil on canvas, 60” X 48” 2017
  • Oink
    Oink
    needlepoint acrylic and oil on canvas 70” X 114” 2017
  • The Living Room
    The Living Room
    acrylic and oil on canvas
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    Reissmccormack_Randi_TheKing.jpg
    The King, 2017, oil on canvas, 24" X 36"
  • Jump
    Jump
    acrylic and oil on fabric and canvas 2017
  • Gingerbread Man
    Gingerbread Man
    Gingerbread Man, collage and mixed-media on canvas, 48 " x 36" 2018

Study series

These paintings were experiments on a small scale experimenting with ideas that play out in   the larger paintings in later series.
These were all done between 2016 and 2017.
  • Extraneous
    Extraneous
    "Extraneous" oil on canvas, 18" X 24"
  • Tiny Hands
    Tiny Hands
    oil on canvas, 18" x 24" 2017
  • Dancing Man
    Dancing Man
    oil on canvas, 18" X 24"
  • Flying Fish
    Flying Fish
    oil on board, 18" X 18"
  • Braincase
    Braincase
    oil on board, 18 " X 18" 2017
  • Blue
    Blue
    oil on canvas 18 "X 18"
  • regulation Plaid
    regulation Plaid
    oil on canvas, 24" X 18" 2016
  • comfort painting
    comfort painting
    oil on panel, 18" X 18" 2017
  • Hindrance
    Hindrance
    oil on panel, 18" X 18"
  • Stork Ship
    Stork Ship
    oil on panel, 18" X 18", 2015

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"

Works on Paper

Works on Paper or Mylar
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    reiss-mccormack-image01.jpg
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    risingscottie.jpg
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    drawing2-done-in-conjunction-with-surprise.jpg
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    dscn2830.JPG
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    spring-cleaning175.jpg
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  • Plaid Boy
    Plaid Boy
    mixed-media on paper
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    drawing-done-in-conjunction-with-surprise.jpg

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.
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    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