Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Randall Stoltzfus

@sloweye.bsky.social

42 followers 160 following 24 posts

Light-filled abstract landscapes from countless hand painted circles in Brooklyn, NY. Occasional gold-leaf and posts about art-making, art-seeing, sometimes gardening

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

💙

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

So good!

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

Love this one 💚

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

love this one, so delicate

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

Truth about bigger/better! Hope it is/was a nice dance

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 7

lovely painting, this 💙

1 1

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excellent tips for looking at art by @benadavis.bsky.social for artnet - advice for pacing and the value of taking your time one piece, keys to real seeing news.artnet.com/art-world/ho...

Here's My Personal Method for Seeing an Art Show, If You Want to Get the Most Out of It | Artnet News

How to get the most out of a day at the museum? Consider these three steps: Make a Map, Find the Story, and Focus In.

news.artnet.com

1 4

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Apr 23

Lights on! This is beautiful, Frank✨

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Mar 3

The exhibit is called "The School of Goodness and Beauty" and it's opening in its second venue this week, at:
Gallery 360 in Roanoke, Va
Mar 7 - Apr 25, 2025
Opening Reception: Mar 7, 5-8pm w/ talk by Steven Francis Coates
more info: sloweye.net/goodness-and...

Goodness and Beauty at Gallery360 – Randall Stoltzfus

I’m pleased to share that “The School of Beauty and Goodness” exhibition is continuing with an additional showing at Gallery 360 in Roanoke, Virginia. This curated selection from the original presenta...

sloweye.net

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Mar 3

"Study for Invocation" is part of a group show honoring a different kind of path-finder- a teacher who made things possible for me when I was very much still figuring things out. That teacher was Philip Geiger and you can read about what I learned from him here: sloweye.net/randall-stol...

Randall Stoltzfus on learning from Philip Geiger – Randall Stoltzfus

Some journeys begin with resistance, only to reveal the path we were meant to follow all along. I wrote this essay for a group exhibition honoring Phil Geiger, whose guidance at UVA transformed my…

sloweye.net

1 3

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Mar 3

So in this case that little study ended up taking a lot longer. Partly because the number of decisions involved is really about the same. Partly because the little painting was being used as a pathfinder for the larger painting- especially helpful when there's gold leaf involved.

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Mar 3

Here's the full sized painting, simply titled "Invocation" and a snapshot showing the incomplete "study" hanging on the wall to the left of it. That's a sorta working drawing higher on the wall- a scribbled-on printout

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Mar 3

This painting is titled "Study for Invocation"- it's a smaller painting at 19 by 13 inches. The title includes "study" because there's a larger version of the composition. Which of the two do you think was faster to paint?

1 4

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Feb 18

So nice!

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Feb 17

One of my “Illuminate” postcard prints made it to Antarctica where it spent a few months of wintry summer with friend Caz, who was driving big machines around in the snow. More great photos over on FB at Caz R Applegate. So fun sending these palm sized images across time and space.

A black and white art print of a moonlit landscape lies on volcanic rock and snow

An metal door with an open mailbox with a brown envelope and a black and white art print, their is now on the ground

A person with a jacket red hat and mirror sunglasses stands in front of a vast field of sunlit ice and snow. There is a solitary penguin in the middle distance

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 27

Sinuous and beautiful ✨

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 27

Hello back!

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thank you thank you

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 23

So nice! And nice to see your work over here

1 1

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is lovely! And nice to see your work here

1 1

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Jan 22

Lovely image as always!

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Nov 24

Lucky to catch the Giorgio Morandi exhibit at Galleria Mattia De Luca in NY on one of its last days (thru 11/26). This photo is of Morandi's final painting, from 1964.

A photo of Giorgio Morandi's final still life painting shows a grey and white painting of two bottles and two boxes arranged so that they make an almost abstract image with the poetic, loose brushwork and muted colors typical of the artist. the painting is surrounded by a black velvet and weathered grey frame and hangs on a white wall.

1 8

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Nov 20

Lovely photo!

1 2

Randall Stoltzfus @sloweye.bsky.social · Nov 19

Something blue. This is "Held" - it's acrylic dispersion and iridescence on polymer canvas and 12 x 19 inches

A blue and white and yellow contemporary landscape painting made up of many tiny painted circles hangs on a white wall with pin holes and paint spatters. The painting looks like the silhouette of a group of trees cupping the sun #art #sunlight #blue