The visionary realist paintings of Lynn Randolph re-examine the hurman condition in both personal and universal terms. By re-interpreting cultural symbols and using religious iconography and myth, she creates a new vision. Her painting reveals her training and assimilation of the traditions of both the Northern Renaissance painters and the surrealists. Her dream imagery affirms, […]
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The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inapproriate/d Others
The final image of this excessive essay is “Cyborg”, a 1989 painting by Lynn Randolph, in which the boundaries of a fatally transgressive world, ruled by the subject and the object, give way to the borderlands, inhabited by human and unhuman collectives. These borderlands suggest a rich topography of combinatorial possibility. That possibility is called […]
A Return to Alien Roots – Essay from Exhibition Catalog
The Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 1990 Picture a tiny medieval demon in boxer shorts and a dotted green tie: picture a middle-aged woman crossing a fertile desert on the back of a huge snake: picture a young Jew writing “credo” with his own blood on a globe. These are images […]
From Evidence: Contemporary Narrative Painters of the Southwest exhbition catalogue
In her painting “Therapeutic Alliance,” Lynn Randolph paints an allegorical and psy-choanalytic portrait. The rabbit standing over the sleeping woman is compositionally a contemporary response to the lion sniffing at the sleeping gypsy of Henri Rousseau’s famous painting. In Therapeutic Alliance, the radiant golden glow on the forehead also illuminates the inner ears of the […]
The Reality of Illusion
No Bluebonnets No Yellow Roses, ed. Sylvia Moore Robert Hobbs, “The Reality of Illusion” p. 38-39 MIDMARCH ARTS BOOKS, 1988 ___________________________________________________ Although Lynn Randolph like Dorothy Hood, is concerned in her art with the realm of the spirit, she is not a Surrealist. Convinced of the reality of her painted illusions, which develop out of […]
Acts of Faith: Politics and the Spirit – Essay from Exhibition Catalog
Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1988 Let me say at the risk of sounding ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. –Che Guevara The political and the spiritual, like art itself, are fundamentally moving forces, acts of faith. If we are ineffective in these areas, we are not […]
Lynn Randolph: Recent Paintings 1984
On viewing “Caught Between Night Suns,” a double self portrait by Lynn Randolph, I began to know the artist. The painting was face to the wall when I entered the studio and when it was turned I turned with it, registering the woman I saw in paint before me, and again in person, grasping the […]
Lynn Randolph: Recent Paintings 1984
LYNN RANDOLPH / GRAHAM GALLERY Recent Paintings / November 1984 Lynn Randolph’s new paintings go very deep. She talks about “coming from behind the canvas” and “an underlying web of connections”. Her art makes these many levels accessible , its meticulous realiism, or love, is released into a visionary content. Somehow the people, her friends,look […]