Poet Tom Adams and multi-media artist/musician Richard Hearn combine spoken word and audio samples (both found and manufactured) with original music and multi-media art for spinning tales culled from just-beneath-the-surface of everyday life and the abstract and sometimes bizarre depths of the human condition.

Poet Tom Adams began developing his craft in the mid 1980’s and has performed his work at open mics and organized poetry events around the Northeast Ohio area and beyond, including Mac’s Backs, Border’s Books and Music, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Barking Spider Tavern, Spaces Gallery, and Shakespeare & Company in Paris. Tom has published a chapbooks of his work, including Lament for The Fallen Soldier.

Musician/artist Richard Hearn has been involved in the Northeast Ohio arts and music scene since 1980, playing in local underground “alt. art” bands of note – Uzizi and Breakfast In India, and working in the visual mediums of painting, photography and mixed-media sculpture. In the late 80’s, Richard worked on more experimental audio projects, including cut-up assemblages of field recordings and an early collaboration with Tom Adams, before forming his own band, Angst Café (1989-1995) which released the EP Sad Venus. Besides performing at local clubs and regional festivals, Angst Café presented multimedia events at venues around Northeast Ohio that included performances by local poets and artists. During this period Richard also began to experiment with digital photography, at first by digitizing his 35mm film images for further treatment in PhotoShop, to working entirely in the digital realm, and later, experimenting with analog/digital video loops. Besides his work with Trenchcoat Manifesto, Richard is working on various other projects, including hARMONICAvIRGINS, and a solo project of experimental music called Music For Jardo. Richard is also developing new skills in the mediums of lamp-worked glass and jewelry fabrication. Further information is available at www.echogate.net/dharmajava.

The exhibit will be up for the months of June and July, with receptions on Art-Walk nights of June 11, July 9, and August 13th at Mastroianni Photography and Arts.

The show offers a glimpse into a still developing aesthetic, as well as an interesting slice of an era from over 20 years ago.

Closing reception Friday March 12, 2010, 6-10PM, in conjunction with the March Tremont Artwalk.

Stacey-circa 1987

Andrew Klimak-still from "A Few Minutes with Death on a Stick"

Washington DC-circa 1986

self portrait--circa 1989

 

America in a Box by Ron Knight

Alice I by Debra Shepherd

 

 

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2688 W. 14th St.
In the historic Tremont neighborhood
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