SV Randall: In the Purple
March 23 – April 28, 2018
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SV Randall, Untitled, 2018, Digital sketch, Image courtesy of the artist
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SV Randall, Device suspension chamber, 2017, Steel, leather, cast resin, scoria (volcanic rock), aluminum, and satellite dishes.
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SV Randall, The Curiosity of Con, Petrified Breath, and an Accident known as Blue, 2016, Ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian Blue), salt, water, Elodea plants, Phenol Red (pH indicator), etched paper, rope, milled polystyrene, cast polyurethane, and mixed media
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SV Randall, Window Blinds and Sight Lines (installation), 2016, Acrylic on canvas, oil on canvas, digital print, cardboard, wood, magazine display racks, twig and ratchet straps.
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SV Randall, Javelin, 2017, installation view, mixed media.
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SV Randall, Accumulation jugs, 2017, Found objects with plaster, dirt and mortar powder.
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SV Randall, Chainmail, 2017, Acrylic paint on found signage, palm fronds, galvanized steel, and aluminum foil.
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SV Randall, risesun / setsun, 2017, Acrylic paint on vinyl, wooden dowels, twine, aluminum hardware.
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SV Randall, Waiting for sawfish to cut our canoe, 2016, Cast concrete, wood plexiglass, mirrors, fluorescent tape and resin on found fabric.
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SV Randall, ACME meta meta meta, 2015, Cast aluminum (sourced from melted down contemporary aluminum tools including silverware, pieces of ladders, car parts, cpu heat sinks, and the backs of iphone1s), with mirror and plexiglas
Historically, the color purple was rare. Made from a laborious process of crushing and boiling sea snails, the resulting dye was worth more than gold and reserved for the elite. A child born into the wealthy class was said to be “born in the purple”.
In the Purple examines the relationship between consumer, commodity, and object transformation. Randall focuses on the symbolism and historical implication of basic consumer objects to identify the notion of obsolescence, visual decay and materiality.
Interdisciplinary artist SV Randall received his bachelors from Alfred University and recently completed his Masters in Sculpture + Extended Media from VCU. He is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Fellowship Award, a Sculpture Fellowship through the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and a Visiting Artist Grant through the Institute for Electronic Arts. He currently lives in New Mexico where he is teaching in the MFA and BFA programs at New Mexico State University and the University of Texas at El Paso as a visiting artist.
In the Purple is made possible by the generous support of Linden Row Inn and Sherwin Williams.
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