Randall was born into several generations of artists and raised in the suburban surroundings of
northern New Jersey. Despite winning awards while in High School, one awarded by Ben Shahn, he nevertheless
found the decision to become a painter difficult knowing intimately what difficulties might lay
ahead. He joined the Army at nineteen and after a tour of duty in Vietnam he decided that he had no
choice but to become an artist. He began studying drawing, painting and sculpture in NYC at the
National Academy of Fine Arts and then at the New York Studio School with Philip Guston, Mercedes
Matter, Leland Bell, Peter Agostini and Sydney Geyst coming in contact with many of the leading figures
in the, 'Abstract Expressionist' movement at that time in New York.
He soon moved to Bennington, VT where he enjoyed the country landscape. Taking a night shift
position in order to paint by day, he also opened a small art supply and gallery in town. He began working
on both landscape and figurative subjects, exhibiting locally.
In the late seventies he relocated to Manhattan, sharing a loft in an old tobacco warehouse near
South Street Seaport with two artists friends from Vermont. He continued to explore both figurative and
city environments, from subway bag ladies to scenes of his Fulton Fish Market neighborhood. He grew
tired of the city loft life and left for Newport, RI in 1981. The New England rocky coastline and seacoast
became his new environment.
Changing mediums can frequently be a voyage of discovery and a way to keep growing and in
transition. The process is somewhat uncomfortable by necessity. Without growth and change, there is a
kind of death in repetition. A kind of rebirth and seeing in new ways is needed to remain both flexible
and vulnerable.
In 2004 he moved to Bluffton, South Carolina and is creating a suite of Hilton Head Island imagery
near his home covering both local icons and universal images based on the area.
He has work is in both corporate and private collections.
David Randall joined Pixels.com Licensing on October 9th, 2010.
