diploria labryinthiformis (brain coral) .002, 2024

Glazed ceramic, epoxy, silver

15 3/4 x 16 x 1 7/8 inches

Fair Market Value: $3,400

Starting Bid: $2,380

Buy It Now: $5,100

RANDI RENATE is an MFA graduate of the Sculpture Department at the Yale School of Art, and the recipient of numerous fellowships including Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, New York, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Fountainhead in Miami, Florida, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, and Sculpture Space, New York. Her 2021 permanent public sculpture, "blue is the atmospheric refraction I see you through," at the Adirondack History Museum was made in part by the 2021 New York State Council of the Arts DEC Community Arts Grant and featured in Interior Design Magazine. Featured in Sculpture Magazine is her most recent public sculpture in NYC for the 2022 Socrates Annual exhibition "Sink or Swim Climate Futures." Randi also produces the podcast CORALESCENCE: conversations highlighting the connection between art and science. These episodes are "studio visits" she conducts with scientists and other researchers in their fields, exploring a broad range of topics starting with coral restoration and ecology.

Artist-in-Residence, 2023