Essays

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 real while the lonely landscape, for all its concreteness, becomes dream-like. But the most real people are those killed and disappeared in Central America. They hover, bodiless,over the horizons of our consciousness, demanding compassion and justice.

The Falled Angel. The Despairing Angel, The Vigilent Angel (never the Avenging Angel) is not only the artist, but all of us. Randolph seems to have rediscovered something I suspect we are all looking for, something that is out there, in here, just out of reach. Something we remember but can’t quite picture, something that means more than anything we know.

Lucy Lippard
October 1984
Graham Gallery, Houston, TX