Russell Vidrick - photo by Charlotte Mann

Cleveland poet Russell Vidrick hosts this second Saturday event 3 p.m. at Brandt Gallery in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.

An informal structure, poets sit in a round and share poems (their own and other’s work). There is no sign up list, you can listen, read, recite or comment, or not.

A good group for a low key friendly afternoon of poetry.

In a series of landscape paintings, Seward explores our collective use of technology, set against our desire to preserve the natural environment.

For the past five years, “Stealth Towers,” has been the subject of this inquiry, as real and imagined cell-phone towers are camouflaged as pine trees, church steeples, flag poles, barn silos, and totem poles. Depicted with traditional techniques, and with a nod to the Hudson River School style of painting, these works place communications infrastructure in a Romantic, sometimes religious, context.

“My attempt is to seduce the viewer with a beautifully painted image, but then discover a betrayal with a narrative contrary to the original emotion. I’m as conflicted about living in the post-modern world as anyone else, and present these works as open-ended questions.”

This new body of work looks at another current technological wonder framed against the sky: drone aircraft. The on-going quest to control the sphere geo-politically – black operations since the Cold War – continues as stealth drones dominate the skies over domestic and foreign lands. As unwitting ambassadors of American policy, drone planes demonstrate our reliance on technological solutions while, literally, being personally removed from the equation.

“I’m hoping that the viewer considers this surveillance tool from another angle, by juxtaposing the invasiveness of remote technologies with pristine landscape and, sometimes, to explore stylization of the piece from a non-Western tradition.”

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Broken and picked over .. left as only a whisper in the wind … where fragments of the past lay, new life sprouts through reminding us that eventually mother earth will reclaim what was once hers. Sometimes we must go back to go forward.

Location: Randali Park Mall, North Randall OH

Bio: Bradley Miller. Bradley was born to a single mother’ in the summer of 1984 and has been an artist for as long as he can remember. After graduating high schooL his run-ins with the law and struggles with addiction landed him in the “clink’” ‘for several years providing an intense period of intellectual stimulation and some serious soul searching. After his release he attended Youngstown State University and later Cleveland State University studying fine art and photography. Today he is a proud father, an almost husband and has a promising future in both the culinary and photography fields.

photo credit - Sarah Perez

Special appearance by Dan Smith and the Deep Cleveland Trio.

Opening Reception Tremont ArtWalk Friday April 12 6 – 10 p.m.

Broken and picked over .. left as only a whisper in the wind … where fragments of the past lay, new life sprouts through reminding us that eventually mother earth will reclaim what was once hers. Sometimes we must go back to go forward.

Location: Randali Park Mall, North Randall OH

Bio: Bradley Miller. Bradley was born to a single mother’ in the summer of 1984 and has been an artist for as long as he can remember. After graduating high schooL his run-ins with the law and struggles with addiction landed him in the “clink’” ‘for several years providing an intense period of intellectual stimulation and some serious soul searching. After his release he attended Youngstown State University and later Cleveland State University studying fine art and photography. Today he is a proud father, an almost husband and has a promising future in both the culinary and photography fields.

Live Bait Recording Foundation and Brandt Gallery present
VIDEO SCREENING from Audio Visual Baptism #13 “All-Acoustic”
held February 21, 2010 (almost three years ago)

In addition to a POWERSTRIP OF CROCKPOTS (additions welcome), we’ll be featuring video of performances by:

Ghostpussy
Beard of Chipmonks
slMakita
Michael James
Tempered Decay (featuring Steve Petrus)
Tom Orange
Jack Smiley
Temple Fugate
A Gaze Blank & Pitiless (feat. Roman J)
Dead Peasant Insurance
Fluxmonkey
Throbbing Griswold

Additional video surprises from the LBRF archives will be screened!

Autism: A Mexican Adventure by Craig Matis opens ArtWalk Friday March 8 runs through April 4, 2013

This book installation exhibition at the Brandt Gallery, “Autism: A Mexican Adventure” is a series of panels which relate the story of an American father and his autistic son traveling through Mexico to help cope with his wife’s death. Using music, narration, and a mixed media technique of folded paper and 3-D pencil drawings, the story describes a surreal journey that invites the viewer to learn a little about the difficulties in raising a special needs child, all set in a Mexican landscape.

Following up on the Euclid Park Beach photographs he took with the 201 Minolta he got in college and exhibited at Brandt Gallery in 2010, Novak’s new exhibit explores shadows in the digital age. Noting that “digital color is so honest, it can be unforgiving,” Novak explores how the shadows so integral to the black-and-white medium of 50 years ago return to impact the digital print.