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Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 | Mixed Media in Paintings by John Randall Nelson | Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts in Scottsdale
Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 | Mixed Media in Paintings by John Randall Nelson | Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts in Scottsdale
Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 | Mixed Media in Paintings by John Randall Nelson | Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts in Scottsdale
Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 | Mixed Media in Paintings by John Randall Nelson | Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts in Scottsdale
Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 | Mixed Media in Paintings by John Randall Nelson | Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts in Scottsdale

Created and Sold by John Randall Nelson

John Randall Nelson

Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023 - Paintings

Featured In Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

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Center Space Gallery, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, 2023.


Laura Hales, curator of learning and innovation, along with the assistance from her colleagues at Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation selected artworks which correspond to 11 terms: challenged, enlightened, hopeful, swept away, intimately engaged, consoled, disgusted, compassionate, confused, humbled and upset. Each artwork was chosen to correspond to a respective term.

The result is an exhibition featuring artwork by:
John Randall Nelson, Beth Ames Swartz, Carolyn Lavender, Patricia Sannit, Bill Dambrova, Diane Silver, Binh Danh, Tom Eckert, Fausto Fernandez, Jill Friedberg, and Ellen Wagener.

On exhibit July 21st, 2023 - April 29th, 2024 in the Center Space Gallery at Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 7380 E. 2nd Street, Scottsdale.

Item Rolls with the Punches, 60"x 48", 2023
John Randall Nelson
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2019
I think the ambiguous is more interesting, more engaging. Because there is always something more to discover it reveals itself more slowly and it has greater longevity.”

John Randall Nelson lives and works in Tempe, Arizona. An MFA graduate of Arizona State University’s Herberger School of Fine Arts, his folk art inspired works have been exhibited and collected both nationally and abroad. A sculptor as well as a painter, he has completed commissions for clients as diverse as the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Postal Service and the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona.

“Over the years I've heard Nelson's work described as Outsider Art, Pop, and Primitive. Maybe it's all of the above. What I do know is John has perfected the combination of playful and poignant. Using a diverse mix of materials in both painting and sculpture, he's developed a unique language over the years with the use of societal, political ancedotes and familiar cultural icons. Nelson has created a landscape all his own, both introspective and whimsical, much appreciated qualities, in this ever-changing moment in time.”
Covington Jordan, Director, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM.