Essays

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 chassis of this extraordinary painting, studying my face from somewhere in back of her eyes. This woman, suddenly, irretrievably, vulnerable to me had created a most poignant moment between her and her viewer.

At a later time Lynn wanted to know if I liked that painting, I told her that the painting had hurt me, but that I liked it very much. Since that time I have looked forward to the present exhibition. In a very special way Lynn has chosen with fierce determination to distinguish herself as an individual woman–that is as a painter of exquisite craft and penetrating psychological awareness.

Bill Graham
October 1984
Graham Gallery, Houston, TX