About
the Artist:
Randall Tiedman is a highly intuitive self taught
artist. He was accepted for an advanced standing at the Cleveland
Institute of Art after his tour of duty in Vietnam but decided
to pursue art on his own, He did not publicly exhibit his art
until 1982 when he made his gallery debut in the Proscenium '82
at the Beck Center in Lakewood, Ohio. The following year he was
selected for inclusion in an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of
Art that was curated by Sherman Lee. Since that time, Tiedman
has received more than 24 awards in juried exhibitions including
the Erie Art Museum, Trumbull Art Guild, the Artist Archives of
the Western Reserve, the Beck Center, the Hallinin Religious Show
and the Fine Arts Association. He has been selected for inclusion
in juried shows by Don Eddy, David Hickey, James Harithas, Sherman
Lee, Tom Hinson, Barbara Rose, Edward Henning, George Adams, Larry
Salander, Lynne Warren and in 1992 he was selected by Terry Dintenfass
for first place in the National Butler Institute of American Arts
Mid-Year Show. His work has been shown at Case Western Reserve
University, B K Smith Gallery, Lakeland College, Cuyahoga Community
College, In-Town Club as well as numerous invitationals. His works
are also in the collection of the Butler Museum of Art, The Erie
Art Museum, World Trade Center, Case Western Reserve University,
Lakeland Community College as well as private and corporate collections
across the United States. In 2002 his works were purchased by
Circus De Solei. Tiedman is a former President and co-founder
of the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, an organization
dedicated to preserving the works of Ohio artists.
Artist
Statement:
This current work reflects the trend of Psychogeography
and the Derive. This is more by reaction than intention. Psychogeography
is the study of geographical settings consciously managed or not
acting directly on the mood and behavior of the individual. Psychogeometry
research is carried through non-scientific methods such as the
derive aimless drifting through the city trying to record the
emotions given by a particular place; and mental mapping, the
production of mood based maps. An artist may have a specific idea
as to the kind of painting he intends to make. However the process
usually leads to unforeseen dynamic possibilities in line and
form impossible to imagine at the onset. He begins his paintings
cold. These "inscapes" as he calls them, are visionary
works made without reference materials or photos of any kind.
They are inner visions composed entirely from imagination. He
endeavors to maintain balance in the composition and to use color
and texture to create a feeling of ever shifting musical tones
and harmonies. This intuitive approach helps to avoid the boredom
and labor involved if he were to copy from source material. This
work is revealed to him in the creation . "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; a single Horton sphere-enigmatic balloon tethered to
fused sand by its steel cradles; the unique clarity of the light;
fluted tablelands and jigsaw bastions; the limitless neural geometry
of the landscape.
"Tiedman's remarkable control over painterly
media is also displayed in the paintings incredibly transparent
forms that seem to float in dark infinite space" Dr. William
Robinson, curator , Cleveland Museum of Art
"Tiedman's work is striking, provocative,
and beautiful and had I been the juror, I think I too would have
seen the advantage of selecting both of these fairly large works."
John Edwards, Art Reviewer
"Tiedman is an ace draftsman whose skills
give no clue that he is self-taught" Helen Cullinan, Plain
Dealer Art critic.
