Some of the most striking pieces dealt with the ominous beauty of the Industrial environment,a sort of Rust Belt sublime. Ravishingly strange imaginary landscapes verging on science fiction,the paintings of Randall Tiedman,a self taught artist from Cleveland were a highlight.......Frieze Magazine  Steven Stern  2010

Randall Tiedman's work hails from his interest in psychogeography,which is the practice in which people seek to find out more about the environment they live in based on mental maps we carry with us in our subconscious. His large scale paintings, which he refers to as inscapes rely on a painterly approach that is based more on the mind's eye, rather then what we see or experience in the landscape. Tiedman begins each work with no preconceived notion as to what the resulting imagery will be, but instead depends on a process of building memory based imagery through a process that albeit spontaneous,depends upon a traditional approach to painting. The results are nothing short of spectacular.....Albert Knox Museum  2010