Rande Barke

Rande Barke has been a professional artist for over 20 years. A Milwaukee native, Barke received his MFA in Fine Arts at the University of Georgia before becoming an assistant professor of Fine Arts in Mississippi and then at Syracuse University. In the early 1980’s he moved to the Lower East Side of NY and embarked upon an increasingly successful career as an artist working int he genres of both abstract and figurative painting. Towards the end of the 1990’s as the cutting-edge industrial art havens swiftly gentrified, Barke relocated his studio to Yonkers, attracted by the atmosphere and architecture of the burgeoning downtown district.

Rande has exhibited his works at various New York City galleries as well as nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the National Endowment for the Arts grant as well as a grant from the Ford Foundation. He has work in various corporate and private collections.

His work can be seen at Cafe Zuppa on Main St. in Yonkers.

To find out more, visit his website, listed below:

http://www.randebarke.com