Randy Gachet
Randy Gachet
Stage of Career/Practice
Mid-Career: An artist who has created professional level art over many years and who has received some regional or national recognition.
About
Randy Gachet earned a BFA, concentrating in sculpture, from Birmingham Southern College in 1987. In 2002, Mr. Gachet joined the visual arts faculty at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Gachet’s work is consistently exhibited in galleries, non- profit spaces and museums throughout Alabama and the Southeastern region. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment Center in Huntsville, AL, the Johnson Center for the Arts in Troy, AL and the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan, AL. His sculptures and installations have been included in Digital Graffiti 2013, Alys Beach, FL, HomeGrown Southeast Exhibition 2007 at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, Questions to the New South: Politics, Politics, 2006, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL, the Red Clay Survey of Contemporary Southern Art, 2000, 2007 and 2017, Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL. and the John and Joyce Cadell Sculpture Garden, Montgomery Museum of Fine art, Montgomery, AL 2018. Awards received include 2009 Art Teacher fellowship from the SURDNA Foundation, 2008-2009 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, merit awards from the 2007 and 2004 Kentuck Arts Festival, merit award from the 2013 and 2004 Magic City Art Connection, the Spirit of the South Award from the 2004 Art with a Southern Drawl juried exhibition at the University of Mobile and an award of merit from the 2000 Red Clay Survey :Seventh Biennial of Contemporary Southern Art. His work can be found in public collections, including the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Southern Environmental Center, as well as private collections across the country.
