francie randolph
45 Depot Road, Box 1004 Truro, MA 02666
t:508-349-1631
francie@wn.net
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2006/07 exhibitions:
July 11 - 19, Reflections: Water as Metaphor & Muse, Castle Hill Gallery
August 10 - 30, The Coral Series, DNA Gallery
August 15 - September 5, Fathom (Coral Series), Studio Exhibition
January 10 - March 5, 2007, Recent Work, The St. Botolph Club
Francie Randolph Biography
Francie Randolph is a mixed media artist whose work explores the patterns, structures and cycles of the natural world. Randolph often combines traditional photographic, painting and printmaking techniques with digital technologies. Her work is primarily created in series. She has exhibited cyanotypes printed via digital negatives, intaglio prints using solarized plates, works on paper with graphite and Giclee printing, large paintings combined with digital photography, encaustics on wood with photographs fused within wax.
Randolph has exhibited since 1992, including at The Cape Museum of Fine Arts, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Attleboro Museum, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Harvard University's Carpenter Center for Visual Arts; in NY at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Miranda Fine Arts and the Phoenix Gallery; and in France and Australia. Her artwork has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, ArtsMedia, Art New England, Harvard Magazine, and ArtHouse Magazine in Seoul, Korea, among others. She is the recipient of multiple awards including a St. Botolph Club Foundation Annual Artist's Award, Radcliffe Traveling Fellowship, J.L. Murray Traveling Fellowship, Contemporary Artist’s Center Recognition Grant and a Massachusetts Cultural Development Grant. Randolph's work is included in museum, corporate and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
After receiving a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude, she traveled through Papua New Guinea on a Radcliffe grant, exploring the interrelationship between culture and village arts. She settled in Sydney, Australia and later returned to the United States, where she taught in Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies Department for seven years and received a Masters in Visual Arts and Technology. Francie Randolph lives with her husband, artist Thomas A. D. Watson (thomasadwatson.com), and their two children in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Truro, Massachusetts.
Randolph is currently represented by the DNA Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Miranda Fine Arts in Port Chester, New York.
coral series 2006
Artist's Statement 2006:
Everything in nature produces giants and dwarves; the noise of the floods fills the immensity of the sky or the hollow of a shell. — Gaston Bachelard
The Coral Series is a visual exploration of the structure of undersea colonies. Coral polyps, pulled from parents by moontides, float through ocean depths. They anchor themselves upon generations of corals past—bone to bone—each connection adding to the foundation, building upon what has come before, sculpting a reef. No longer adrift, individuals chart a larger pattern: marking the repeated cycles of life, creating something greater than themselves.
Encaustic painting techniques also require fusing, connection. Each wax layer, embedded with pigment, must be heated and melted into the layer below. Layers upon layers of wax are added to create each painting: revealing, obscuring, sculpting and building.
Sea Reflection, 2004/05
Intimate Immensity: Pregnancy, 2003
New Geographies, 2002
In the Moment of Unravelling, 2001
Body Matrix, 2000
Dehiscence, 1999
Natural Metaphors, 1998
Reproductive Technologies, 1996/97
Eureka, 1994/95
Visions of Choice, 1992/93
