ArtArea Gallery exhibit – Photography by Randal Richmond – Occasion @ Black Hawk College

The ArtArea Gallery on the Quad-Cities Campus is exhibiting “Metaphors, Mythologies, and a Bucket Full of Shadow” – images by Randal Richmond – from Friday, Jan. 23 to Friday, Feb. 20.

Everyone is invited to a closing reception Thursday, Feb. 19 from 4-5:15 p.m. with an artist speak at 4:15 p.m. Light refreshments can be supplied.

The ArtArea Gallery is situated on the primary ground of Building 4 on the Quad-Cities Campus, 6600 thirty fourth Ave., Moline.

For extra details about displays within the ArtArea Gallery, e mail [email protected] or go to Black Hawk College Art and Design.

About the artist

The panorama and still-life association have been areas of focus for Randy Richmond for a lot of his profession as an artist. These two genres merged in a physique of labor that grew to become solo exhibitions on the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA.) titled “Verisimilitude” in 2019, and “Subtext and Overstory”, on the Dubuque (IA) Museum of Art in 2022.

Richmond has proven his work in quite a few solo, group, invitational and juried displays nationally and internationally. He has been represented in eight museum exhibitions together with 4 group displays, three invitational exhibit and two solo exhibitions. His interpretation of environmental points has been the main target of particular displays created for the Door County Land Trust (WI), the Keeweenaw Land Trust (MI), the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation and Nahant Marsh (IA.). His work is in everlasting collections at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA; the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA; The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO; Kishwaukee College in Malta, IL; and Project Art of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He balances his inventive time with educating images as an adjunct teacher at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA.

Artist Statement

Over-explaining these still-life photographs would diminish the purposeful under-explaining they supply. They are impressed by relationships between individuals, and other people and the atmosphere. The ambiguity fuels an emotional response. Large gaping voids are left between function and understanding, focus and air, line and floor. Beauty emerges from locations unfamiliar to the expertise. The roadmap to understanding is a collage of tattered recollections taped collectively, roughly folded and stuffed into an age-stained envelope, not fairly giant sufficient to carry the contents.