Randall Schmit (born 1955) is a contemporary American artist of Luxembourger and first-generation Dutch descent, working primarily in painting.
[2] Visual artist Randall Schmit[1] was born in Newark, New Jersey,[2] and grew up along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
[3] After initial studies in architecture at Texas A&M University, Schmit began to paint, and was Studio Assistant to abstract colorist, Ray Parker (painter) during the late-seventies and early eighties in New York.
In addition to the obvious influences of Surrealism[5] and the mature New York School found in the studio of Schmit's mentor,[6] Ray Parker—a colleague of Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Michael Goldberg and others—the graphic influence of comics and contemporary 1980s East Village Graffiti artists is also seen in Schmit's early work.
These works are psychedelic in nature, with swirling comic and science fiction imagery[13] woven into web-like trails and gestures of paint that bind disparate images together as one entity.