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Lace and Textile – Tina Cassara   Except from Leather and Lace by Frank Green from the Cleveland Free Time August, 1999 A noteworthy exhibition in Tremont this month is a show at Brandt Gallery of recent work by Christina (Tina) Cassara, a conceptually minded fiber artist and professor at Cleveland Institute of Art who…

The March 1998 Southside Gallery show was a breakthrough for me.  I had spent the previous two years rehabbing a rental property and moving to the other end of Tremont.  I was just experimenting with a calmer, more focused theme in my work when Jean invited me to exhibit. After working on interior walls, patching…

Biographical Info Sheet Folk and Self Taught Artist November 1996 Name:  Clyde Eugene Merritt, “Gene” Age:     November 30, 1936 Born:   Columbia, South Carolina Lives:  Rock Hill, South Carolina Gene’s subject matter ranges from popular cultural icons, people in his community, landscapes, scuba diving (frog men), cars and animals.  The drawings are usually…

I lived upstairs from the Southside Gallery for five years, and ironically never had a show there until after I moved out.  During my time spent there, I did several shows around Tremont and always loved sharing the basement below the gallery with the current artist in residence and whoever else happened to be around at the…

  Works were a collaboration between Michael Hurley and Samantha Staley.  Samantha set up the model shoots and took digital images of models in various poses. We edited these shoots and I manipulated the chosen images in photoshop. I then wrote a program that blew the image up pixel-wise, split into precise divisions and output…