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Randall McKissick
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Educated at the Ringling School of Art and Design, McKissick has pursued a double career as a professional illustrator and fine artist for 25 years. For the past several years, the artist has focused mainly on his fine art painting. McKissick’s paintings have traveled the globe, with selected exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, Vail, Honolulu, Capetown, South Africa, and St. Thomas, USVI. Special Collections can be found at Georgia Pacific in Atlanta, AT&T in Jacksonville, the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Umbro International in England and Phillip Morris in New York City.
At first glance, McKissick’s lively impressionistic paintings of people, animals, and places appear effortlessly spontaneous, as though conceived and executed in an afternoon. They are not. They are elegantly and precisely drawn images with composition, color and atmosphere, deliberately calculated to evoke a specific emotional response. They are the culmination of an exhaustive process in which the artist studies his subject in photographs and videos, mulls over the exact message he intends to convey, and then obsessively compares the painted image in progress to his “mind’s eye” until the piece corresponds to that carefully conceived vision.
The viewer is pulled into the scene, fascinated by the way the light picks out a detail or the luminous colors point our way to the decisive moment. Whether McKissick is painting a portrait, landscape, animal or architectural environment, his confident brushstrokes and sense
of mood and place are powerful statements of the artist’s vision. McKissick is also an accomplished portrait painter, with numerous commissions held in collections around the globe.
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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Sir Joshua Reynolds
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