Randi Bachman ( she, her, they )

My work navigates the topography of emotional experience: a personal narrative suspended in nostalgia and memory. Through the use of material and iteration, my work metaphorically conveys lineage and influence through texture and narrative. Utilizing the aesthetics of process, my ceramics are the manifestation of small monuments created improvisationally and experimentally. Ceramic medium in the archival form but manipulated through the use of light, perspective and media, a recapitulation and reiteration is created upon itself. Soft color palettes evoke a sense of celebration and reminiscence. I am interested in the notion and extrapolation of “byproduct.” Instead of linear or rigid processes of creating, I engage in experiential play: a sort of call and response that happens between me and the material. I am interested in discovery, nuance, impressions, and the unseen. 

Randi Bachman is a multidisciplinary artist who engages ceramic materiality, exploring expressions of memory and monument through experimental processes. Bachman earned a BFA in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute. She is the recipient of the Ernest A Jones Scholarship, 2022 Regina Brown Fellowship, the Glenn C. Nelson Scholarship, the Ken Ferguson Scholarship, the McKeown Award and the Cynthia and Edwina Bringle Scholarship. She has exhibited her work nationally – recently at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT) Arc Gallery (Chicago, IL), Visual Arts Center (Richmond, VA), Forum Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Vulpes Bastille (Kansas City, MO), DAAP Galleries (Cincinnati, OH), Belger Arts Center (Kansas City, MO), and Drewlowe Gallery (Iowa City, IA). Bachman is a nomadic midwesterner and is currently a second year MFA graduate in the Ceramics Program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.