Winter Forecast: Creative Communities at Brandt

The Winter 2014 season finds Brandt Gallery continuing to explore creative communities in various manifestations, showing work from two women who each have connections to the local music scene, a father-daughter team with considerable local ties, and a Cleveland Heights children’s librarian returning to painting after a long absence.

 

K. Stewart & Jeanette Thomas

January 10 – February 8, 2014

Since moving to Cleveland over 10 years ago, K. Stewart has played in several local bands (Black Cabbage, Iron Oxide, Mohammad Cartoon, Budapest Dojo). She works with paint, photography, fabric, and linotype, having last exhibited at the December 2012 Decay in Response: Pink Noise edition. A graduate of Cleveland State’s Electrical Engineering program, Stewart has a polymathic range of interests, from linguistics and graphic design to robotics and video games.

Jeanette Thomas studied at CSU for two years, followed by a brief stint at CIA. “Since then,” she writes, “I’ve made event fliers for my previous bands, made cover art for friends’ bands’ albums, including a 7-inch record for Herzog, released on the UK’s Transparent Records, and [for] my current band, The Very Knees. . . . Comic books got me into making art, and sustained me while keeping my form progressing. As far as portraiture, there is nothing more interesting or telling than the human face; it contains a world, as well as life’s secrets and mysteries, the universe in miniature.”

 

Rebecca Yody and Tom Yody

February 14 – March 8, 2014

With over two decades of experience in performance and creative arts, Rebecca Yody is continuously striving to find new ways of expression. She has recently exhibited her work at SmartSpace and Two Girls from Cleveland / The FOUNDRY Store. Tom Yody taught at the Cooper School of Art in the 1970s and returned to Cleveland in 2012, invigorated by the thriving art scene and inspired by what he refers to as “the work-a-day, blue shirt commitment and dedication of the artists here.” In Fall 2013, Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery exhibited Yody’s abstract drawing and sculptures evoking the non-representational surrealism of Yves Tanguy and the organic structures of Antonio Gaudi.

 

Sarah Biscuso

March 14 – April 5, 2014

“I am coming back to painting after a decade-long hiatus. When I paint, I am interested in memory, emotion, and spontaneity. I approach the canvas without primary sketches or concrete plans in an attempt to record ideas from below the conscious level. The work is a document of my experiences, interests, and state of mind at the point in my life when I created it. I have always been drawn to the Expressionist movement, and this influence is reflected in my work.”

 

 

K. Stewart & Jeanette Thomas

January 10 – February 8, 2014

 

Rebecca Yody and Tom Yody

February 14 – March 8, 2014

 

Sarah Biscuso

March 14 – April 5, 2014

 

Brandt Gallery

1028 Kenilworth

Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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