statement

My work aims to slow down time. It is the intersection between my childhood drawings, curiosities, fascinations and memories. Through a phenomenological lens, I focus on objects that I grew up with, that have fueled my imagination and stylistic curiosities. These objects operate as symbols, megaliths, and hieroglyphs. Through my work I explore themes of family history, Jewish decadence, inherited taste, fantasies, embellishment, the infinite realm, and anthropomorphized artifice. The almost Neoplatonist pursuit for a personal aesthetic of beauty is always paramount. Thus, the work has a sentimentality to it and an object-like quality that has been filtered through my truths.  My recent work strives to find the common threads between the objects that I have been obsessed with, motifs within my larger body of work, and overarching curiosities that have caused me to wonder.  

BIO

Born in 1992 in Dallas, TX, Randal had an immediate attraction to art-making. She began taking art lessons at the age of five and fully immersed herself in drawing, painting, crafts, and mixed media. From 2008 to 2011, Randal enrolled at the Sofia Art Academy where she studied in a Russian Academic atelier style school focusing on proportion, color, anatomy, life drawing, and composition. Randal attended pre-college classes in drawing and painting at Parsons the New School for Design in the summers of 2009 and 2010. Randal earned her B.F.A. in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015. She received her M.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas in 2021. Randal is an artist and educator currently living and working in Dallas, Texas.