{"id":10741,"date":"2017-10-16T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klohecat.com\/wvanart\/randy-walker-thread-held-in-tension\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T07:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:12:21","slug":"randy-walker-thread-held-in-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klohecat.com\/wvanart\/randy-walker-thread-held-in-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Walker: Thread held in tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Walker originally studied Architecture at the University of Oregon and as an artist has completed temporary and permanent commissions all across the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient of many grants and awards Randy\u2019s work straddles precariously on several boundaries: solidity and transparency; structural stability and collapse; visibility and invisibility.<\/p>\n<p>He strives to create work that primarily engages our sense of sight by contemplating how light can define structure, surface, and colour.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, we discover what fires Randy\u2019s imagination and how his background in architecture has shaped his artistic vocabulary. 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