Randy Gibbs

RANDY GIBBS is working toward a B.F.A. in printmaking at Arizona State University at Tempe. He hopes to teach the printmaking media on the college level. His art has appeared in a number of shows, including one at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Although every artist is influenced by other artists each prides himself on someday achieving a unique style, a trade-mark of his creativity. My hart has been influenced significantly by two artists, Peter Mitton, a Pennsylvania-born printmaker, and James Christensen, a California artist. Though still in ist formative stages, my own style is converging toward a point, a point which encompasses images and symbolic figures of the Victorian era (a perid dominant in the history of our Church). The combining of my art with the synthesis of those images which I find thought-provoking and admirable have produced a spiritual dimension which I have only recenly realized.

I find myself thoroughly involved in each print, drawing or painting–it’s conception, symbolization, executaion and underlying metaphysical message.