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

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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    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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  • Plaid Boy
    Plaid Boy
    mixed-media on paper
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