Thank goodness for each other. None of us alone can be all that a human being can be. We all go through our lives with potentials that are never actualized. I think this truth lies at the heart of my friendship with Lynn Randolph. Lynn became what I wanted to become but did not– an […]
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Slipstream – Essay from Exhibition Catalog
Kirk Hopper Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2016 All of these artists are coming to grips with the realities of who we are, a spiritual tenor both dire and redeeming. Their works have soul as well as nerve – a sustained shriek about power and morality in a new global era. The silent horror of […]
Birds of the Soul
Lynn Randolph has always been front and center at the cultural, political and social crossroads of our times. The spellbinding images of birds between two worlds, however, touch upon hot button, core issues rarely addressed by the mainstream art world – spirituality, life and death, grief, transcendence and transformation. Installed last year at James Harithas’ […]
The Soul’s Eye: Art in the life of people with terminal illness
I want to thank Dr. Delgado Guay for inviting me to speak to you this morning and everyone else who helped organize this important conference. I will be talking about my work with the non-profit organization, Collage, The Art for Cancer Network, which pays artists to work with patients at M.D. Anderson hospital and how […]
Comments on Paintings by Lynn Randolph for Comparing Religions Text
The paintings that open each new part and chapter are all by Houston surrealist artist Lynn Randolph. Lynn and I met a few years ago, after she had read some of my work on erotic mystical literature and detected deep resonances between what she was trying to do on the canvas and what I was […]
Unspoken Stories
Part I Thank you for inviting me to speak to you this evening. I feel honored to be a part of this series. In the spirit of your previous presenters, I would like to begin by telling you some stories, stories about images. I will be talking about my work with the nonprofit organization, Collage, […]
In Relief
Translation from the Italian by Tom Berth Quadernidialtritempi.eu. no. 24-2010 “The Mysteries of Lynn M. Randolph between Obsessive Metaphors and Promising Monstrosity.” The poet is a pretender. He pretends so completely that he succeeds in pretending that it’s pain – the pain that Fernando Pessoa actually feels The visionary and metaphorical realism of the paintings […]
Modest Witness: A Collaboration with Donna Haraway, 2009
When I read Donna Haraway’s Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1989, I was intrigued and inspired. Here was a piece that resonated with my political, feminist and moral values. Haraway was getting up close, magnifying and focusing on science, technology and socialist-feminism while contesting the “old world order.” Her work brought to mind Robert Hooks’ first […]
How Like a Leaf
an interview with Thyza Nichols Goodeve V. Cyborg Surrealisms Thyza Nichols Goodeve: In all of your work you lay out your evidence and adjust your level of critique but you also do something else that I gather comes out of science fiction (or is why you like science fiction). You speculate specifically through myth-building. Certainly […]
Living Images: Conversations with Lynn Randolph
Catalog essay from Millennial Myths: Paintings by Lynn Randolph, Arizona State University Art Museum, 1998 Lynn Randolph’s paintings infiltrate the fibers of my flesh and spirit. I mean this statement literally Randolph’s powerful figures protect, haunt, incite, soothe, instruct, and trouble me. Where I write, where I sleep, and where I eat, my daily life […]