randi Reiss-Mccormack: traveling sideways
Exhibition Dates: maY 24 - June 18, 2022
Reception: Thursday, maY 26, 5pM - 8pm
The Painting Center is pleased to present a new exhibition by Randi Reiss-McCormack titled, Traveling Sideways on view from May 24 through June 18, 2022.
Traveling Sideways invites viewers to immerse themselves in the active physicality of these bold, tactile works and explore the interconnecting images mined from a wide array of sources. Fibers, paint and flocking converge with the artist’s intuition and subconscious to explore and expand the language of painting.
These complex works present a wide range of images and processes, moving from textile, painting and mixed media, using the constraints of each medium to intervene upon the outcome. They veer between the recognizable and the abstract, derived from the physical and led by the intuitive. The structure of collage, across all media, allows for the interplay of multiple viewpoints in the works, creating a channel to a subconscious narrative. A deep dive into color and pattern direct these works into woven collaged elements that reveal multiple landings for interpretation. There is clearly a love of material that is conveyed to the viewer and a playfulness streaming between the works that stems from a reverence of process and delight in bending the rules.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Randi Reiss-McCormack is an artist working between various processes, namely mixed-media painting, textile and printmaking. After earning an undergraduate degree at Cornell University, she spent a year working and studying in Paris, France until relocating to Baltimore, to earn a graduate degree at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, (MICA). She has won a Maryland State Arts Council Award multiple times in different categories, a Trawick Prize, and is published in various publications including twice in New American Paintings. Reiss-McCormack has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across the country and internationally. Currently, she lives and works as an artist in Maryland.
For more information on the artist, please visit www.randireissmccormack.com.
