Lake
RANDALL LAKE
SOLD
Randall Lake is a Salt Lake City artist who paints colorful, realistic, alla prima oil landscapes, interiors, still-lifes and portraits related to California Impressionist realism. An exhibition of Van Gogh paintings in Chicago helped the artist become more painterly, moving away from a meticulous realism.A tiny oil, "Rooster Teacup," 9 x 10, has solid form, rich color and a strutting chicken on its side. The cup in variants of white, intense red, green and darker blue, is set against the greyer blue and dulled red of the fabric-covered table on which it rests. The cup, empty except for an angled spoon emerging from its depths, is flanked by two tiny cubes, either sugar or a pair of dice without their spots. It has crisp intensity, a sense of three-dimensional form and of the actual existence of the cup and saucer."A Painter's Desk," 25 x 30, richly colored, has a variety of cards, letters, containers, eye-glasses, lamp and brushes stacked handle down in a pot on the desktop in front of a gold-framed landscape hanging on a green wall. Lake's landscape, "Liberty, Utah," 20 x 22, depicting middle-ground, corrugated tin-roofed barns and outbuildings against the rise of massive mountains close behind, has subtly rich, closely harmonized golds, blue and gold-greens setting off the violet of the barnand vice-versa. Born in Southern California, Lake attended boarding school in Switzerland, visiting art museums, where, at age twelve, his interest in art was awakened. He graduated, with a degree in English, from the University of Colorado in 1970, then taught that subject at the Sorbonne in France for two years. He started to paint at this time. Wanting to learn to paint realistically, Lake heard of Alvin Gittens, a professor of painting at the University of Utah who taught traditional techniques. Lake was twenty-six years old when he went to Salt Lake in 1973.
"Garfield County" 12x15
"Gauguin, Bogart, and Me" 42x48
"Teapot with Green Onions " 20x24
200 E. South Temple, Suite #100. Salt Lake City, UT. 84111 (801) 534-0331 info_williamsfineart.com Gallery Hours: M-F, 10-6pm