Primarily abstract/surrealist artist. Live and work in Columbia County, NY.    Visual artist Randall Schmit was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in San Pedro, California, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the tradition of his Dutch heritage, he consistently paints figures with still lifes; domestic scenes or existential tropes; traditional modes of depicting characters within their environment. He was previously studio assistant to the second generation abstract expressionist Ray Parker in New York for several years.  Following his first solo exhibition at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in Soho, New York, the artist has exhibited widely, with several dozen solo exhibits in the USA and Europe.  While he is considered a third-generation Abstract Expressionist, Schmit's narrative investigations of situational space have incorporated comic imagery for nearly three decades. Consistently presented within various areas and compartments, conversation bubbles pose as hard-edged biomorphic abstr