gabriellerandall.com
Artist Bio
Gabrielle Randall (b.1996) is an interdisciplinary artist from Columbia, Maryland and is now based in Brooklyn. She works primarily in self-portraiture, photography, sculpture, video, and mixed media. In 2018, she completed a BFA in Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts, and in 2019, Gabrielle received the President’s Scholarship Award from The New School to pursue an MFA at Parsons School of Design. In 2021, she was selected to participate in the Velvetpark Residency in Brooklyn, NY.
Email: randg864@newschool.edu Instagram: @oogasma
Beloved, 2019
Brown clay, air-dried, tempera, my hair
2 3/8" x 2 3/8" x 4"
chronic / a ritual for release, 2021
HD Video, 1’ 51”
chronic / a ritual for release, 2021
HD Video, 1’ 51”
chronic / a ritual for release, 2021
HD Video, 1’ 51”
How many licks, 2019
Unfired brown clay, tempera, my hair
The Velvet Rope, 2019
Stoneware, air-dried, acrylic, synthetic Senegalese twists
2 3/8" x 2 3/8" x 3"
Tue Moi (I just wanna chance to fly, a chance to cry, and a long bye bye), 2020
Inkjet print on archival paper
11 x 17"
Tue Moi (I just wanna chance to fly, a chance to cry, and a long bye bye), 2020
Inkjet print on archival paper
17 x 11"
Artist Statement
My practice prioritizes my own pleasure as a Black, lesbian, sentient woman. Moving through the world with a high mortality rate and insufficient representation creates a heightened sense of chronic desire to be fed, loved, touched, claimed, remembered, released, accounted for. My practice encounters spirit, ancestry, adornment, political incorrectness, and taboos –such as wanting to die sometimes, in the midst of a global pandemic, in the midst of systemic genocide, and all of the survivor’s guilt that comes with that. My practice is a reminder of my capacity for feeling.