TAWA at 45
The Exhibition
Bonnie Christina Randall
Lunar Rain with Magical Orbs
mixed media on paper, 2018; 27″h x 28″w
Bonnie Christina Randall received her MFA in drawing from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and her BFA in art education from the Philadelphia College of Art. Her juried and invitational exhibits include “Trenton Makes,” Prince Street Gallery, NYC; “ Trenton Makes,” the Trenton City Museum; The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Absolute Abstract; New Jersey Arts Annual Noyes Museum; Nabisco Gallery, NJ; Ellarslie Open and Ellarslie Summer Series, 1990; Lock Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Drawings and Prints: Southeast, Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellaire, FL; Rutgers National ‘81 and ‘77 Works on Paper, Rutgers University, NJ; Summit Art Center, NJ; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Princeton University, NJ; Trenton State College, NJ; Mercer County Community College, NJ; Somerset County Community College, NJ; Hunterdon Art Center, NJ; Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA; Glassboro State College, NJ; TAWA Exhibition to the Soviet Union. Other exhibits include “Art Served Up Trenton Style,” Prince St. Gallery, Chelsea, NY; Southern Arts Federation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; University of West Florida, Pensacola; Converse College, Spartanburg, SC; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN; Milledgeville Allied Arts, GA; Georgia State University, Atlanta; University of Mississippi Museums, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA; Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL; Printmaking Council of New Jersey, North Branch Station; Women and Art in NJ, Princeton; University City Arts League, Philadelphia; Women’s Caucus for Art, Douglas College, Rutgers University; Joan Ling Gallery, Gainesville, FL; Gallery Watatu, Nairobi, Kenya; African Heritage, Nairobi, Kenya; Artspace Middlesex, NJ; Gallery Contemporanea, Jacksonville, FL; The University Gallery, University of Florida; Dow Jones, Princeton, NJ; Dumont-Landis Fine Art Gallery, New Brunswick and Lawrenceville, NJ; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Ellarslie/The Trenton City Museum, NJ; Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL; Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ; The First 40 Years 1970-2010 Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission; Arts Council of Princeton. Awards include Best in Show, Trenton Makes, Prince Street Gallery, NYC; Hunterdon Art Center; Patrons’ Award for Drawing, Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA; Purchase Award, Mercer Cultural and Heritage Commission; Purchase Award, Rutgers National ‘77 Works on Paper; and George Lazslo Award for Graphics, Phillips Mill, New Hope, PA. She received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in graphics.
Her work is in the collections of Rutgers University; The University of Florida; Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL; Mercer Cultural and Heritage Commission, Trenton, NJ; Nairobi Hilton, Kenya; and The World Bank, Nairobi, Kenya.
“My art reflects my interests in the concept of transience. I choose to visualize this concept because it suggests to me the ideas I wanted to incorporate in my work: a heightened sense of awareness; solitude and environment; the relationship of humankind to the universe; spiritual harmony; the brevity and fragility of life (a floating, fluid pattern of motion sometimes fragmented), a dream-like sense of mystery and timelessness.”