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  [left] Princeton Marsh, 11-11-2023, 7:25AM
  [right] 10-21-2023, 11:49AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Bakken's Pond, 11-7-2023, 1:32PM
  [right] 5-16-2021, 6:05AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Bog Trail, Bemidji State Park, 7-31-2023, 3:40PM
  [right] 10-27-2023, 12:00PM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Bog Trail, Bemidji State Park, 7-31-2023, 3:25PM
  [right] 4-09-2021, 9:01AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Bog Trail, Bemidji State Park, 7-30-2023, 3:28PM
  [right] 6-15-2023, 10:39AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Mississippi River, Beltrami County, 7-31-2023, 6:19AM
  [right] 4-30-2021, 6:58AM
  Edition: 1/5; 2/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Superior Shores, 8-2-2023, 7:11PM
  [right] 5-20-2021, 10:02AM
  Edition 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  
  

  

  [left] Bakken's Pond, 11-7-2023, 12:50PM
  [right] 5-28-2022, 11:33AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  

  

  [left] Bog Trail, Bemidji State Park, 7-31-2023, 3:26PM
  [right] 12-15-2022, 10:48AM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28" each
  $400 each
  
  

  

  Gilded Pear
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28"
  $400
  
  
  

  

  5-18-2021, 1:15PM
  Edition: 1/5
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 22" x 28"
  $400
  
  
  

  

  Outstanding in His Field
  
  Digital pigment print on mat board
  Art dimensions: 4.25" x 6.5"
  $350 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Man Seeking Solitude
  
  Digital pigment print on mat board
  Art dimensions: 4.25" x 6.5"
  $350 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Fountain Springs State Park, IA 4/14/2017
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  Mill Creek, IA 3/12/2017 5:19pm
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  Mill Creek Marsh, IA 5:33pm
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  Fountain Springs State Park, IA 3:40pm
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #1
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #4
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #5
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #6
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #7
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #9
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $525 Framed
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #10
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #12
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  The Set Table - Study #13
  
  Archival pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 17" x 22"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  Jasper County 3/21/2017 7:17am
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 11" x 8.5"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  Bixby State Park, IA 4/8/2017 5:24pm
  
  Pigment print on kozo paper
  Art dimensions: 11" x 8.5"
  $100
  
  
  

  

  Feeder
  
  Digital photography on exhibition fiber paper
  Art dimensions: 16.5" x 11"
  $200
  
  
  

  

  Sage
  
  Digital photography on exhibition fiber paper
  Art dimensions: 16.5" x 11"
  $200
  
  
  
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• Biography
  As an artist Randy Richmond’s ability to capture the tension that occupies the space between subject and background, light and dark bring a palpable vibration that imbues his photographic work with a sense of depth and time. The landscape and still-life arrangement have been areas of concentration for Richmond for much of his career as an artist. Recently these two genres merged in a body of work that became a solo exhibition at the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA.) titled “Verisimilitude”. 
  
  Richmond utilizes a cross-pollination of photographic mediums like ingredients in a photographic cookbook to bring each piece to print. Various projects are printed according to content and concept. Historic processes including Van Dyke Brown and Cyanotype, as well as highly refined archival inkjet prints using pigment-based ink are incorporated. He insists on making each print himself to ensure his voice is not lost in translation. 
  
  Stretching the edges of the photographic image to tell a story has been a prominent feature of Randy Richmond's work since his student days at the University of Iowa. Because of this, he has received the attention of several authors with his visual storytelling ability resulting in several book cover contracts, including one for Beacon Press. 
  
  Richmond has shown his work in numerous solo, group, invitational, and juried exhibits nationally, and internationally. He has been represented in eight museum exhibitions including three group exhibits, one invitational exhibit, and one solo exhibition. His interpretation of environmental issues have been the focus of special exhibits created for the Door County Land Trust (WI.), the Keeweenaw Land Trust (MI.), the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (IA.), and the Nahant Marsh (IA.). His work is in permanent collections at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, the Figge art museum in Davenport, Iowa, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, Kishwaukee College in Malta Illinois, and Project Art of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He balances his creative time with teaching photography as an adjunct instructor at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.

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  ​SOLO EXHIBITS
  2024   “Protected Landscapes: Internal and External” Gilded Pear Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  2022   “Subtext and Overstory” Dubuque Museumm of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
  2019   "Verisimilitude" Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2015   “Almost An Island” Quad City Arts, Rock Island, Ilinois
  2014   “Alchemy: 21st Century Handmade Photographs” Renee Grae Gallery, LeClaire, Iowa
  2012   “A False History” Brewery Pottery Studio, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
  2012   “The Unknown Collaboration” River's Edge Gallery, Muscatine, Iowa
  2011   “Me And My Friends” CCQ, Dixon, Illinois
  2009   “Landscape References” Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
  2008  “A Matter of Trust” Copper Country Art Center, Hancock, Michigan
  2007   Artisans Gallery, Paoli, Wisconsin
  2006   Prairie Art Center, Princeton, Illinois
  2006   Fairfield Center For Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
  2006   20th  Anniversary Exhibit For The Door County Land Trust, traveling exhibit 
  2005   The Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa
  
  INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS
  2021   “Compelling Ground” Brunnier Art Museum, Ames, Iowa
  2018   "Photo Sensitive" Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
  2016   “Picturing the Prairie” Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2015   “New Works” Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
  2014   “Artists First: College Art Faculty of the Quad Cities”, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2012   “Small Works” Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
  2008   "Contemporary Animal Imagery" Artisan Gallery, Paoli, Wisconsin
   
  GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  2024   Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibit at the Figge, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2022   Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibit at the Figge, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2018   Rock Island Fine Arts Exhibit at the Figge, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  2017   "Le Paysage" Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont
  2015    “H2O” Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont
  2015 & 2017  Dubuque Biennial, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
  2014    Faculty Exhibit, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
  2013   "Voices From The Warehouse” Dubuque, Iowa
  2012   “Secrets And Mysteries” Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont
  2011   “You Are Here” Quad-City Arts, Rock Island, Illinois
  2009   “Nil Desperandum” Knill House, St. Ives, Cornwall, England
  2009   “50 artists/ 50 states/ 50 mediums” Eclipse Gallery, Algoma, Wisconsin
  2009   "Minds Eye" Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
  2008 & 2010 "Americas Biennial" International traveling juried exhibit
  2008   "Shelter" 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  2008   "Summer Shores and Skies" Vertin Gallery, Calumet, Michigan
  2007   "DIA Invitational" Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado
  2007   "Out of the Ordinary" Peninsula Art School, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
  2007   Faculty Exhibit, Peninsula Art School, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, Wisconsin
  2007   Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
   
  CORPORATE AND PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
  Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  Project Art, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
  Trinity Medical Center, Rock Island, Illinois
  Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado
  St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
  Muscatine Art Museum, Muscatine, Iowa

  Previous Exhibitions
  

  it takes all kinds - 2017

  Protected Landscapes: External & Internal - 2024
• ​The Print
  I believe that a print is crucial in the artistic process of photography. It is the final word of intent on the part of the artist. For this reason, images that are displayed in my portfolio galleries on this site represent the image in it's final form. The print. My choice of medium for the final print is based on content of the image, as well as concept of a specific project/body of work. Medium choice is also based on edition size. Handmade prints come in editions of 5 and purely digital prints come in editions of 10. Images used to create numbered editions never exceed the native image size of the camera used in the original image capture; however numbered editions are available in smaller print sizes. This maintains the integrity and detail of the original image file.
   
  The Process
  Handmade van dyke brown prints, handmade cyanotype prints, archival digital prints on various Japanese kozo papers, and archival prints mounted on 4-ply matboard (fictional cabinet cards only) are the main mediums of choice that I utilize. Digital Baryta paper can be used universally for a more traditional photographic appearance.
   
  Van Dyke Brown
  The Van Dyke Brown print process was named for the resemblance of the print color to the brown oil paint named for the Flemish painter Van Dyck. This print method is based on the first iron-silver process, the argentotype, invented in 1842 by the English astronomer, Sir John Herschel.  A  silver nitrate solution is hand applied archival fine art paper. When the paper is dry it is sandwiched with a negative that is the size of the image, and exposed to the sun or other UV light source. The resulting image is processed through a series of washing baths in distilled water, a toning bath to insure permanence, and a final hour long wash. The final print is then coated with a mixture of lavender oil and beeswax. Because the silver sensitizer is absorbed deeply into the paper the image has an amazing tonal range and appears to be dyed into the base material. By hybridizing the latest in digital technology to create a large negative, with the 150 year old photographic process, I am able to create photographs with the depth of detail and tonal range of large format analog photography, but with the subtle control that technology adds to the process.
   
   
  Cyanotype
  The Cyanotype process also has ties to Sir John Herchel. It is one of the first permanent photo processes. Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate are mixed and applied the sameway as Van Dyke Brown sensitizer. The resulting prints have a distinctive Prussian blue tone.  I tone my cyanotypes in black tea. The toning leaves the darker tones blue and shifts the mid to light tones warm. This creates an added feeling of depth. I feel that this process lends itself to a limited amount of imagery, but is very effective for the right type. For this reason I don't use this process often.
   
  Kozo Paper
  Kozo paper are made primarily from mulberry bark. Kozo paper has been around for over 1000 years and is still made using traditional means by several small paper mills. With a special inkjet coating, kozo paper offers amazing black density and sharpness not achieved with matte surface inkjet paper. The softness of the paper surface and the density of the kozo fibers allow the ink to be absorbed deeper into the paper surface, while maintaining detail. This produces an inkjet print that appears much less superficial. I use four different kozo papers that vary in thickness, and tone, based on the imagery being printed.
  

  

  Van Dyke Brown

  

  Cyanotype

  

  Pigment print on Kozo Paper

landscape photography, still-life, scenic art, nature, scenery, environment snapshots, cabinet cards, surreal, quiet, dramatic, mysterious, eclectic, portraiture, figures