<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Randall Tiedman and <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Douglas Max Utter</SPAN>, 1987-2009</SPAN></U></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Arts Collinwood Gallery, 15605 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, OH<SPAN> </SPAN>44110</SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">When: September 11 – October<SPAN> </SPAN>3, 2009</SPAN></I>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Where: Arts Collinwood Gallery</SPAN></I>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Randall Tiedman and Douglas Max Utter are among <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_4>Cleveland</SPAN>’s most memorable living artists. Both have pursued painting single-mindedly for the past <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_5>three decades</SPAN> (and more), developing highly distinctive, psychologically fraught manners of expression. <B>Wayfaring Strangers </B>brings together a selection of works representing different aspects of their techniques and thought.</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In his relatively recent series of acrylic landscapes Tiedman seems to discover, rather than merely depict, darkling plains of Miltonic breadth, often hinting of vast man-made structures – highways, arenas, factories, set amid rivers and distant hills. Dream-like, tenuous forms snap into sharp detail, describing a world both familiar and alien, like a vision of a distant human future, or new construction on the banks of hell.</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Utter’s often large-scale paintings in a variety of mediums ranging from spray paint to tar examine the history of the human image in European painting, filtered through the people and places of his own life; they evoke the weight of spiritual presence as it haunts the material world.</SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Tiedman (who is included in the latest edition of the national publication New American Painting) notes that his current work reflects some of the concerns and insights of <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_6 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">Situationism</SPAN> and the thinking of theorist Guy Debord. Tiedman’s explorations parallel the errant wandering typical of the Debordian “<I>derive</I>” and the research techniques of so-called psychogeography, which attempt to re-discover the world through techniques that short circuit preconception. Tiedman describes his work this way:</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> "A low shoreline; air glazed like amber; derricks and jetties above brown water; the silver
geometry of a petrochemical complex, a Vorticist assemblage of cylinders and cubes superimposed upon the distant tableau of mountains … the unique clarity of the light; fluted tablelands and jigsaw bastions; the limitless neural geometry of the landscape." </SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Utter (who has been reviewed in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_7 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Art in America</SPAN>) is interested in the Jungian idea of archetypes –<SPAN> </SPAN>structural templates set deep in the mind, ordering emotional experience and development. Similarly, in recent works (which are often created by pouring paint and letting it crack, then drawing in relation to this ground) he is concerned with the layering and accumulation of time in painting, and the philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea of “Duration,” which emphasizes an intuitive, subjective understanding of time and movement. </SPAN>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Works by Tiedman and Utter can be found in numerous collections, including the Artists Archives of the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_8>Western Reserve</SPAN>. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>This chance to see Randall Tiedman's work in an intimate local gallery is particularly attractive, given an array of recent awards and honors: </DIV>
<DIV>Randall has three paintings in the recent juried exhibition at the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_9 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Erie Art Museum</SPAN>, and another two in the National Butler Mid-Year exhibition. He won the National Arts Program's "Best in Show" in April 2009, was awarded a Special Mention in the Wasmer Gallery's juried exhibit, and received both <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251737248_1>Best in Show and</SPAN> First Place Painting at Fairmount <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251737248_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Center for the Arts. His work is featured in</SPAN> the latest edition of <EM>New American Paintings, </EM>due in <EM> </EM>bookstores Sept 23, 2009, and also in the 15th Anniversary Edition of <EM>New American Paintings</EM>. He won Best Painting in the Zeitgeist 09 juried competition and will have his work on
display at the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_10>Bang & Olufsen</SPAN> Galleries in <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251737248_2><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251810512_11>New York</SPAN>, </SPAN>Frankfurt, Germany and I<SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1251737248_3 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none">stanbul, Turkey. Save the airfare and see this terrific body of work here in Collinwood. It's not too late to add an original Randall Tiedman to your collection!</SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT color=#00007f>Sarah Gyorki <BR>Executive Director <BR>Arts Collinwood <BR>216-692-9500 <BR>s.gyorki@artscollinwood.org</FONT></DIV></td></tr></table>