ARTIST STATEMENT "My paintings are about experience, or rather my interpretation of my experiences and what I see around me. The ability to interpret an experience into art, words into poetry, sound into music, color into painting, is the essence of being an artist". RANDY BLOOM NEW YORK CITY |
CATALOGUES
CV
2020
Emerge Gallery: Paper Trail:Art on Paper Saugerties NY
Emerge Gallery: Bianco: Art Celebrating White Saugerties NY
Holland Tunnel Newburgh: 20/20 Vision
2019
Emerge Gallery: Terrain: Saugerties NY
2018
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2017
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2016
Peter Makebish Gallery NYC solo show
Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Cowgirls
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2015
Andre Zarre Gallery, NYC RANDY BLOOM:
“Don’t Shoot: All Lives Matter” solo show
Andre Zarre Gallery NYC group show
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg,
2014
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2013
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
Fridge Art Fair NYC
2012
Sideshow Gallery; “MIC:CHECK (occupy)” Williamsburg, NY
Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Cowgirls #4
2011
LOUISE P. SLOAN & RANDY BLOOM “HOTTER THEN ELL” Sideshow Gallery Williamsburg, NY
FOUR ARTISTS, TWO PHASES: Edward Avedisian, Randy Bloom, David Crum, Clark Murray Tremaine Gallery; Lakeville Ct
Curated by Katherine Crum
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
OSKA; New York City
2010
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2009
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2008
Nancy 2 University France Prometheus Creatures and Creators: Sources and Migrations of a Myth in the arts and literature. Guest lecturer
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
Hoffman Studio; Troy, NY
2007
“Paintings of Color” Tribes Gallery; New York City
Sideshow Gallery; Williamsburg, NY
2006
C.W. Wright Gallery; Solo Exhibition; Portland, Maine
Tribes Gallery; Solo exhibition; New York City
2003
Pocketbook Gallery; Hudson, New York
2001
Cooper Classic Collection; Solo exhibition; New York City
2000
Gallery Itoyama; Solo exhibition; Tokyo, Japan
Golden Artist Colors; New Berlin, New York
Edmonton Contemporary Artist Society; Edmonton, Canada
1999
Gallery Accostage; Solo exhibition; Takamatsu City, Japan
Japan Galleria Le Muse Machiya; Solo exhibition; Kyoto, Japan
Arts Resource Service; Solo exhibition; Portland, Maine
“Elegant Clarity”; Curated by Chris White; Tribes Gallery; NYC
The Hells Kitchen Show; Curated by James Little; NYC
1998
Debra Rabinsky Gallery; Line and Color, Curated by Lee Klien, Easton PA
OK Harris; Fanelli Show; New York City
Polk Fine Arts Gallery; Solo Exhibition Winterhavenn Florida
1997
Gershwin Gallery Solo Exhibition: Grid series New York City
Peter Nein Gallery “New York City” Myrtle Beach SC
La Plaza Cutura cultural “Artists of the Garden” New York City
Tribes Gallery NYC “Present Modernism”: curated by Piri Halasz,
1996
Gershwin Gallery Solo Exhibition, New York City
Dieu Donne “Raining Cats and Dogs ” New York City
Tribes Gallery NYC “Masks, Past and Future”: curated by Carol Thompson
1995-6
Kenkeleba Sculpture Garden Contemporary Sculpture, NYC
1995
Michaelis School of Fine Art Thupelo University of Cape Town SA
1994
Lorraine Kessler Gallery “Caution:Artists at work” Poughkeepsie,
Patrice Landau Gallery “Burning “ New York City
1993-4
National Museum Monuments & Art Gallery Gaborone,Botswana
Daljosafat Thupelo International Artists’ Exhibition, Paarl, SA
1993
Lorraine Kessler Gallery “group show” Poughkeepsie, NY
101 Wooster “Sholto Ainslie, Randy Bloom, Jon Isherwood” NYC
Pino Modica Gallery Real Art, New York ,
Atlantic Gallery Randy Bloom, Melissa Davis Painting, New York,
NY Pino Modica Gallery Europa America 360 E-venti, Rome, Italy
1992
Everson Museum Biennial Syracuse, NY. curated by Lowery Sims
Chesil Gallery Shave International Artists’ Exhibition Dorset, England
Lorraine Kessler Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY
Pino Modica Gallery Europa America 360 E-venti, New York, NY
Wunderbar “Organized Chaos”, New York, NY
1990
J. Fryer Gallery Selected Summer Trends, New York, NY
1988
Ground Zero Gallery Group Show Miami, FL.,March
1988
Hardingham Sculpture Workshop Group Show Norfolk, England
1987
The Art Foundation Group Show Johannesburg, S.A., September
Matthew Scott Gallery Group Show Miami, FL. Fall, Dilaurenti Gallery
Group Show New York, NY., June, Shippee Annex Group Show, New York, NY., June 21
1986
Maryanne McCarthy Fine Art Gallery Abstract Works On Paper, curated by Michael Chisholm NYC
Triangle New York: New York, NY, March ,1986
1985
Beverly Gorden Gallery New York Five, Curated by Valentine Tatransky; Dallas, Texas
Tower Gallery; Two Plus Three, Curated by Karen Wilkin, New York, NY
1985
Federal Plaza; Exhibition II, New York
1984
Kenkeleba House; group exhibition, New York, NY
Federal Plaza; Group exhibition, New York, NY
1983
Jack Tilton Gallery, Group exhibition; New York, NY
University of Connecticut Gallery solo exhibition, Storrs, CT
1982
Dyansen Gallery Group exhibition, New York, NY
1980-81
Robert Kidd Gallery Associates Detroit, MI
1980
Betty Parsons Gallery One Wall Show, New York, NY
Bibliography
Halasz, Piri, “Bloom: Mini and/or color, NY Arts Magazine,Vol. 6 No. 5, 2001
Steve Cannon, “Earsay” Randy Bloom” Night Magazine Number 47 June 2001
Celia McGee, “Now Entertainment, Smart Art” NY Daily News April 28, 2001
Michael Carter , “Disengo e Colore, Easton PA” Night Magazine, No. 42, 1999
James Little , “The, Hells Kitchen Show” Night Magazine, No. 42, 1999
Halasz, Piri, “Six Painters, Hells Kitchen Show, and John Marin, NY Arts Magazine,Vol. 4 No. 3,1999
Halasz, Piri, “Art” & The Matinee Ladies: Night Magazine Number 39 June 1998
Halasz,Piri, From the Mayors Doorstep, Issues 6, 7, 8, 14 ,15 ,17, 19, 24, 30, 33, 35 1996-2001
Lee Klien, Salonika Quarterly Vol 1 Issue1, 1998
Lee Klien, NY Arts Magazine, #18 February-March 1998
Halasz,Piri, “Ella’s Bloom at the Gershwin’ ,Lingo # 7 , 1997
Halasz,Piri, New New Painting and Small Gems Night Magazine Number 33 Feb 1997
Sarah Bailey, Art in New York, British ELLE , Hip City Guide to New York Oct 1996
Rubin, Robert Henry , Randy Bloom, Night Magazine Number 29, Spring 1996
Wilkin Karen, At The Galleries, Partisan Review 1, Winter, 1994
Wilkin Karen, Two Plus Three, catalogue to the exhibition, June 26- August 15, 1985
Tatransky, Valentin, Two Plus Three, Arts Magazine, October, 1985
Brenson Michael, Two Plus Three, New York Times, August 16, 1985
Tatransky, Valentin, Cora K. Ward, catalogue to the exhibition, 1985
Cotton, Judy “New York” Vogue Australia, November, 1985
Three New York Women Artists at Helander/ Rubinstein, Palm Beacher Magazine May 8, 1985
Tatransky, Valentin “Suzanne McClelland/Samia Halaby” Arts Magazine, January, 1984
Moffett, Kenworth Moffetts’ Art Letter -Vol. I, No 2 April 1986, Vol I, nos.7/8 Sept /Oct 1986,
Vol II, no. 7 Sept, 1987, vol III, no.1 March 1988 “Special Supplement # 2 March 1986
Selected Collections
World Bank Collection, Lord & Taylor, The National Museum Monuments & Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana, Triangle Collection, NY,
The Johannesburg Art Foundation, South Africa, The Shave Farm Collection, England, Thupelo Collection, Cape Town, South Africa,
Private Collectors in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa
Education and awards
BA Painting and Art History Franconia College 1976
Youth Achievement Award nominated by Karen Wilkin 1984
Workshops
Thupelo International Artists Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa 1995
Thapong International Artists Workshop, Kanamo Centre, Mahalope, Botswana 1993
Thupelo Arts Workshop, Community Arts Project, Capetown, South Africa, 1993
Shave Artist Workshop, Somerset, England 1992
Triangle Artists Workshop NY, 1983, 85, 86, 87
Professional Experience
2001 present
Lord & Taylor Stores Nationwide
Coordinator Triangle Artists Workshop NY, 1983, 85, 86, 87
Curator ” Paul Dignan & Derrick Guild, Two Scottish Painters“ Tribes Gallery 1997
Curator ” For the Young Collector aka Small Gems “ Tribes Gallery 1996
Organized and led paper making workshop; Johannesburg Art Foundation, South Africa, 1989
Organized and led paper making workshop, Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, England, 1988
Organized and led workshops at Johannesburg Art Foundation and Alexandra Township RSA 1987
Directed and Produced Art Video, Questions of Taste – A panel discussion, 1984
Taught Studio Workshop, New York, NY., 1978