"Ohioan Randall Tiedman contributes a group of vast industrial landscape paintings on paper , magnificently gloomy, pierced intermittently by cold light: dark fantasies from our ruined heartland"
Art in America   Faye Hirsch  9/10
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"Cleveland Artist Randall Tiedman's paintings, on view in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, are a virtuosic fusion of Hudson River  School's technique and "Blade Runner"-esque dystopia, combined to represent the strange landscapes of decaying Rust Belt cities from Detroit to Syracuse. You can spend long spans of time staring into each of Tiedman's intricately rendered painting and getting lost in his entrancing visual language."

"In his relatively recent series on 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."
Sarah Gyorki  Arts Collinwood   

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Randall Tiedman's  quasi abstract "Luciferous Music", a 1995 oil painting is filled with luminous passages of paint that suggest a ghostly semitransparent body floating on black background. Its easy to imagine enjoying Tiedman's work in the future.   Steven Litt Cleveland Plain Dealer  11-2 -1997
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In Tiedman's dreamlike places, the laws of physics have been suspended. Broken and fallen structures merge with visions of landfills,chemical plants,sports stadiums and office towers.Like Piransei's 18th century etchings of imaginary prisons,they can be seen as epic visions of the apocalypse . And yet ,some details-like what appears to be a series of crisp red and white banners-suggest an enduring world in which life goes on.  Up close the newest paintings reveal that his loose and expressive use of paint has been deftly carried from his figurative work into his landscapes. Surprisingly long lines hold the brash imprint of a straight edge,lending gritty energy to already rough terrains. Rough patches of black and umber seem to bear the actual weight as they simultaneously depict shadowy recesses in his strangely beautiful world"   Dan Tranberg  9-23-2009