Recent Exhibitions
- SoJie 25
- SoJie 24
- SoJie 23
- SoJie 22
- SoJie 21
- SoJie 20
- 4th Annual Host Hullabaloo
- SoJie 19
- SoJie 18
- SoJie 17
- SoJie 16
- SoJie 15
- SoJie 14
- Yuriy Shevchuk
- SoJie 13
- Jerold Frederick Sowles
- Michele Meister
- Matteo Pontonutti
- SoJie 12
- Randy Sprout
- Tony Bezsylko
- Syd Baker
- Chris Baker
- Michel Verhoef
- Philip Gaida
- Randi Antonsen
- SoJie 11
- Robbie Graham
- M Mission
- Helen Chierego
- Ray Jackson
- Bareri Images
- Adam Bogusz
- Sybille Sterk
- Maria Paterson
- Kathie Nichols
- Randy Monteith
- Jay Taylor
- SoJie 10
- Sue Nichol
- Hugh Fathers
- Handheld Films
- Sally Sargent
- Iwona Fido
- Bob Culshaw
- SoJie 9
- Host Hullabaloo
- SoJie 8
- SoJie 7
- SoJie 6
- SoJie 5
- SoJie 4
- SoJie 3
- SoJie 2
About the Exhibition
Randy Sprout solo exhibition
Randy Sprout has come full circle, after retiring from the Century 21 Hollywood Inc. franchise he built and owned from 1977 - 2008. Sprout had focused on printmaking and etching, as an undergrad at the University of Iowa. Finishing his MA and MFA at UCLA in 1971, where he studied under Jan Stussy and Stanton MacDonald Wright, Sprout says "I had no choice but to begin painting". Painting, conservation (at the LACMA museum), restoration of priceless prints, and teaching all followed. In his retirement, Randy travels and paints plein air studies along the way, and, in his workshop, is happy to be once again, "up to his neck in ink".
Boys On The Dock's congregation of young fishermen on the neighborhood pier has the perfect balance of highlight and deep shadow, gold-ringed clouds and lake reflection. The 30 x 30 inch Acrylic painting is realistic. Its details of the boys' body posture, faces and clothing, against the muted rows and reflections of homes and trees on shore, provide immense charm.
Ferndale Creek is rich and dark and heavier, in comparison – smaller, too, at 20 x 20 inches. Nothing competes with the creek's blue-white bubbling, or the shimmer of gold where the sun pierces it; its delicate waterfall, or the white light glancing off its embedded rocks. Deft brushstrokes, angles, and shadows keep our eyes trapped, captive to its detail of place without time.
— F.A. Moore
Link to Randy Sprout's solo exhibition on RedBubble
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