Colleen Randall

Professor of Studio Art


A painter and Professor in the Studio Art Department, Colleen Randall has taught at Dartmouth College since 1989. Rooted in an abstract tradition, her paintings explore space and light through the materiality of paint. In her paintings she seeks to investigate elusive states of consciousness through multi-layered depictions of form.

She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Fellowship Grant to travel to Italy to study ancient Roman wall painting during the spring of 2008. Of special interest are the garden wall paintings from the House of Livia at Prima Porta, dating from the first century B.C. The structural elements and ideas of these ancient wall paintings—their overall poetic unity—have influenced the body of new paintings and works on paper that she exhibited at Binghamton University and at the Strauss Gallery at Dartmouth College.

Recent exhibitions include:
    Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
    Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH
    Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
    The Painting Center, New York, NY

She is affiliated with Reeves Contemporary, New York, NY; Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH; and Ober Gallery, Kent, CT. She has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony and Landfall Trust in Brigus, Newfoundland. In 2002 she was the recipient of the National Academy of Design’s Edwin Palmer Memorial Award for painting. In 2009 she will teach a Master Painting Workshop at the National Academy of Design in New York City as well as a summer Painting Workshop at the Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO.

The courses Professor Randall teaches at Dartmouth include: Drawing, Painting, Special Topics in Color, and Senior Seminar.


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