Wood

An eight foot painting in blue and gold titled Wood by Brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus. The painting shows a burst of gold light in an abstract forest clearing. The painting is made up of dark vertical bands and very many hand-painted circles

This painting started mid-pandemic. At the start I was thinking about the forest at the beginning of Dante’s inferno. But something lighter occupied the painting by the time I was done, months later. The …

“Wood”

Held

Light through the trees | The painting Held by Randall Stoltzfus

I feel very grateful the feeling of being held that was very present through some difficult times this past year. This painting is about that.

For me, Held feels like sunlight through trees. This …

“Held”

Perigee

"Perigee" by Randall Stoltzfus, 2010, oil and gold leaf on linen, 15 by 24 inches

“Perigee” was completed in 2010 on a support that I began working on in 2004. The image was made using 23 karat gold leaf (Dukaten) and a dose of cerulean blue that shimmer over …

“Perigee”

Dark Sky

"Dark Sky" by Randall Stoltzfus, 2009, oil with gold and palladium leaf on panel, 24 by 38 inches

Brooklyn is one tough place to see the night sky from.

I am fortunate that I spent much of my childhood beneath an unpolluted night sky in rural Virginia. It is my memory of …

“Dark Sky”

Tellus

"Tellus" by Randall Stoltzfus, 2009, oil and gold leaf on linen, 16 by 20 inches

‘Tellus’ is a latin word meaning earth. It was also the name of a ancient Greek statesman known as the happiest of men both for his life, and for his honorable death defending his …

“Tellus”

Bear Lithia

"Bear Lithia" by Randall Stoltzfus, 2009, oil, iridescence, and gold leaf on linen, 48 by 72 inches

This painting was featured on the announcement for “Further West,” the 2009 solo show at LIMN Gallery in San Francisco. The gallery took a nice detail shot that shows the surface close-up. You can see …

“Bear Lithia”

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