francie randolph
45 Depot Road, Box 1004, Truro, MA 02666
t:508-349-1631
francie@wn.net
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2009 exhibitions:
May 23 - June 12, Selected Cape Cod Painters, Tree's Place Gallery
June 20 - October 3, New Art / New Work, DNA Gallery
August 3 - September 16, Naturally Inspired, Highfield Hall Gallery
August 13 - September 7, An Ocean of Calm, Annual Studio Exhibition
Artist's Statement, 2009 ____________
An Ocean of Calm
This year’s work continues to focus upon the sea. As the perception of our world around us has shifted from stability to instability, from order to disorder, from equilibrium to non-equilibrium, it has also shifted from being to becoming. Change is constant. The stability of structure, much like the sea that surrounds our continents, depends upon the fluidity of change. The ocean –massive, powerful and with a permanence undeniable– gently responds to the smallest shift of a breeze.
An Ocean of Calm quietly focuses our view on the endlessly shifting seas. The work captures the dualities of stillness and motion, time arrested and time passing, stability and change. The photographs are suspended in layers of what was once molten wax – and reflect upon the dual beauty of permanence and impermanence, solidity and fluidity. They are my tribute to the changing world around us, to both the known and unknown.
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Fluidity, 2008
Dawn to Dusk, 2007
The Coral Series, 2006
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
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Francie Randolph Biography
Francie Randolph is a mixed media artist whose work explores the patterns, structures and cycles of the natural world.
Randolph's paintings, photographs and prints are included in museum and corporate collections as well as private collections in the U.S. and abroad. She is the recipient of multiple awards and her work has been featured in books and many periodicals including The New York Times and The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, among others.
Randolph combines traditional art-making 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, and photographs fused within encaustic. Her series have been exhibited internationally.
After receiving a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude, Randolph 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 Master's degree in Visual Arts and Technology from Harvard University.
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. Four sheep, a dozen ducks and several hens roam the lawns surrounding the timber-frame barn that houses their studios.
Randolph is currently represented by the DNA Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Miranda Fine Arts in New York.
An Ocean of Calm
