What does it mean to die well? With honor? With purpose? Bountiful Davis Art Center (BDAC) explores these questions with a new exhibit curated by Chauncey Secrist: Ars Moriendi. This latin term, literally “the art of dying,” refers to upheavals in Europe after the Black Death, and the […]
In today’s heterogeneous world of art, there are, generally speaking, two fundamental vehicles for connecting with a work: the emotional and the conceptual. The two create structures of meaning and the basis for fundamental interpretation. As the viewer comes to understand a work, an emotional response is as […]
Each time I am lucky enough to chat with Randall Lake I come away more impressed. It’s not just his art, it’s his intellect, his curiosity, his willingness to challenge himself by trying new palettes, new brushstrokes, by reading biographies of artists he admires, and experimenting with their […]
Randall Lake’s affinity for the 1900s, combined with his formal European art training and his love for antiques, fine art, his studios in Paris and at the Guthrie in Salt Lake City make him a man who should have been born in another century. While teaching English as […]
Randall Lake’s first studio in Paris on the Rue de Grenelle was near the Eiffel Tower. He describes it as the size of a maid’s room, with no natural light, in a seven-story walk-up building. When Lake came to Utah in 1973 to study with Alvin Gittins […]
15 Bytes (and EXTRA!EXTRA!) is on vacation for most of June, but here are a few links to keep you busy while we’re gone: 6/3 Art collecting — for the rest of us : Art paints an intimidating picture for those who want to build a collection. Read […]
This month at Gallery MAR you can view Randall Lake’s “Blue” paintings, a group of work first explored in our profile of the artist in the January edition of 15 Bytes. These deeply personal and stridently polemical paintings reveal a rarely seen aspect of the Utah artist best known for his […]
How does an Orange County boy, a homosexual with a growing reputation as a painter in Paris, become one of Utah’s most known and venerated painters? By obeying the rules. These days, that is exactly what Randall Lake is not doing. Lake grew up in affluent circumstances. In the ’60s […]
When painting in the field, or en plein-air, many artists choose to travel and work with a fellow artist, both to help share expenses as well as for the camaraderie that comes with working together. In Utah, there are even some larger organized groups for plein-air painting, such […]
A flurry of visual art activity has blown into Utah along with the hundreds of thousands of international visitors coming to the Wasatch Front for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Whether part of the official Cultural Olympiad or part of the vibrant local art world jockeying for […]
Randall Lake was born in California in 1947. He is a fine realistic portraitist and figure painter who also does exquisite still-life and landscape works in his studio in the Guthrie Building in Salt Lake City, at a studio home in Spring City, Utah, and elsewhere in California […]
