AMoCA Collection | SIDE DOOR, 2020, Acrylic on carved Polystyrene, MDF, wood, vinyl and epoxy 36 x 50 x 80 in.
RAIR | 2019-20
SV RandalL | Buffalo, NY
SV Randall is an interdisciplinary artist from Buffalo, NY. He received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from VCU and his BFA from Alfred University. His work has been exhibited at David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Ditch Projects, Eugene, OR; and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. SV is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Fellowship Award and has most recently participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME), Sculpture Space (Utica, NY), the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and is currently in residence at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (Roswell, NM).
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, photography and installation. Through my work I aim to reconcile two spatial relationships - the impeding spaces of contemporary infrastructure and the infinite expanse of internal selfhood.
Through the poetry of everyday experience and the use of symbolically charged materials I create room-sized sculptures that mimic the veneer of different strands in American society’s material culture. A hyper-consumerist store display staged in the vast belly of an abandoned grocery store, a feeble TSA checkpoint used to sift, sort, and catalogue hundreds of pounds of dust, and a speculative ghost town set on the border between two neighboring countries - hinge on questioning how our exterior perception jives with our interior selves. Often it does not, and in my work, this misalignment becomes a fissure that opens new paths to understand how we situate ourselves in the world while highlighting larger issues such as social visibility, class structures, technological obsolesce, and spatial politics.
Through all of my diverse projects, the common thread has been a drive to reactivate materials to coalesce object, site, and narrative in physical form.
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • SV Randall "As Pair Legged" • January 25 - March 8, 2020
