Who made this?
Raised without a television in rural Virginia, Brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus makes richly textured paintings that slowly unfurl into deeply receding landscapes. His work has been shown in New York, Virginia, Washington DC, and in Italy, where he was an artist in residence at an active insane asylum.
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Quaker
I first encountered the second story meeting room at the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during a wedding a few years ago. More recently, I’ve been there with Callie as she progresses toward becoming a seminary student and a chaplain. It’s a special room. Unassuming in every way, the strongest sensations in the space come from silence and the filtered light that manages to reach the windows despite the many high-rises that now surround the pre-civil war building. That light and the worn yellow color of the pews was enough to inspire completion of this painting in April. The yellow wasn’t something that survived the final layers. Hopefully a little of the quiet light did.
Migration Gallery exhibited this painting at the AAF in New York in May, 2009. It is now part of a private collection.