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”

Half-fathom

Dark Blue painting with many tiny hand painted circles in white, silver, gold, and green that radiate down and out from the center of the top edge, titled Half fathom and painted by Randall Stoltzfus

My title for this painting, Half-fathom, is a reference to Jackson Pollocks vertical canvas Full fathom five at MoMA. Pollock’s title comes from a passage in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, where the character Ariel describes …

“Half-fathom”

Daylight

Early Morning Sunlight | vibrant orange and blue hand painted circles radiate lgiht in this painting titled Daylight by Randall Stoltzfus | 48 inches square | Acrylic dispersion on recycled polymer canvas

Daylight was conceived as part of a pair of paintings shown in my 2019 solo exhibit Widening in NYC. This painting represents sunrise, it’s sister canvas is titled Moonrise.

This painting was also the …

“Daylight”

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”

Omega

A vivid spectral rainbow of hand painted circles forms a hlo around a shadowy tree-form in this dark, large scale canvas painted by brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus

From the press release for the November 2020 solo exhibit Widening:

Omega, his largest work in two decades, takes the physical composition of a rainbow as its inspiration and expands the palette to encompass …

“Omega”

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