Nancy Randall, Mixed Media Painting Minnesota Woman Artist Figurative Abstract, 1985

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Known for her painting and sculpture as well as printmaking. Nancy Randall’s work is featured in collections at the Smithsonian … more Known for her painting and sculpture as well as printmaking. Nancy Randall’s work is featured in collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Walker Art Center, the Nelson Atkins Museum and the Weisman Art Museum. Lee Krasner Award recipient (2009-2011) from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Her retrospective illuminates timeless themes of transformation engaged by the artist for more than three decades. Featuring key signature images it includes Randall's early iconic prints and kinesthetic drawings, monumental mixed media landscapes and stoneware sculptures created by the artist at St. John's Pottery. Coinciding is the permanent outdoor installation of Randall's sculptural masterwork Eschaton: Sanctuary for the End of Time on the wooded grounds of the Collegeville Center for Ecumenical and Cultural Research.

The sculptural ensemble Eschaton: Sanctuary for the End of Time will be permanently installed on the wooded grounds of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical Study and Cultural Research in October 2014, where it will ultimately decay and return to the earth.
She was included in the exhibition “The Studio Sessions: Minnesota Artists in the 1970s,” which features posed and candid studio portraits of Minnesota artists, taken by photographer Victor Bloomfield when they were still just emerging, on the cusp of what, for many of them, would be international recognition. The generous selection of shots on view include pictures of notables like Frank Gaard, Warren MacKenzie, Nancy Randall, George Morrison, Katherine Nash and Harriet Bart; the portraits are displayed alongside examples of art work – paintings, sculpture, ceramics, prints – by each of the featured artists. less