Randy Garber's art is intelligently and emotionally loaded. She produces works with a mastery of technique that adds resonance to the narratives we inevitably construct when we encounter her images. Garber's art draws on her particular experiences and situations to produce intensely personal yet broadly human images, ones that demand dialogue and reflection. She is an artist who understands the power and complexity of visual communication in a profound and nuanced manner."
—Jim Richard Wilson, Director, Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, New York
Randy Garber makes her mixed media print work in her Somerville studio as well as at Mixit Print Studio where she is a Partner. A recipient of many artist awards and grants including Full Fellowship from the MA Cultural Council, the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Wynn Newhouse Foundation, Puffin Foundation, St. Botolph Foundation, Cappelli d’Angeli Foundation & Somerville Arts Council. Her work is in museum, corporate & private collections: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Decordova Museum, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Dishman Museum in Texas; permanent commissions include Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Governor Baxter School for Deaf as well as private clients. Recent solo and group exhibitions: Currier Art Museum, Sage College of Albany, Atelier Gallery at the University of Michigan, Galludet University, Dishman Art Museum, Lesley University, Simmons College, DeCordova Museum, and Kingston Gallery, Boston. Garber has published articles about her own and others’ work in various print media and catalogues. Her work has been featured on the covers of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature, Prof. Sanchez, NYU Press, 2015; Art New England, January/February 2011.
She works eclectically, with a passion for using traditional printmaking and mixed media sculptural techniques to express her deeply researched contemporary concerns and concepts about the sensory perception of language. Using player piano scrolls, their boxes as well as the copper plates from which she makes her matrices, Randy presents work that expresses what she describes as the “space between silence and sound.”
Garber was raised in Philadelphia, PA watching her father, a hand engraver, carve complex portraits into silver platters and miniature family crests into signet rings. She currently teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is a member of the Kingston Gallery in Boston, MA.
