One of the original Tremont Artists from the 80s & creater of the 'Pretentious Tremont Artists' group: Tim Herron will have a rare showing of his art displayed at Asterisk Gallery [basement]during the Tremont ArtWalk. Arabella Proffer classic portraiture will be upstairs at Asterisk.

The Doubting Thomas has a tribute to Clevelands late/great Masumi Hayashi featuring many sweet local artists.

Read the Free Times article below for more info..

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Arts Calendar
Hoofin' It
Tremont Art Walk, Friday, October 12

There'll be an exceptional array of outstanding work on display during this month's Tremont Art Walk, taking place from 6-10 p.m. today. Arabella Proffer's Private Empire: The National Portrait Gallery of Kessa brings the artist's unique contemporary take to classical portraiture intended to flatter nobility. She's combined modern punk and goth looks with historical fashions in her crisply painted portraits (pictured), creating a time-warping culture clash that sets off a conceptual chain reaction. Her paintings will be accompanied by extensive auxiliary material including invented biographies, genealogies and maps when her fictional portrait gallery opens at Asterisk Gallery (2393 Professor Ave., asteriskgallery.com). At the same time, 3D paintings by Tim Herron will go on display in Asterisk's basement gallery. Around the corner, Doubting Thomas Gallery (856 Jefferson Ave.) kicks off the upcoming feast of exhibits in tribute to the photographer Masumi Hayashi who was murdered last year. (Shows open at MOCA, SPACES, the CSU Gallery and the Akron Art Museum in the next month). This show, called To Masumi, features not her own work, but that of two dozen friends, colleagues, her former Cleveland State students and area artists influenced by her including such area notables as Joan of Art, Douglas Max Utter and Julius Lyles. For tonight's 6-11 opening, violinist Michael Doc Dreyfuss and ambient guitarist Bill Weita will provide music. The show runs through November 2. Other shows to check out: the 6-10 p.m. closing at the Brandt Gallery (1028 Kenilworth Ave., 216.621.1610) of Ebb, a series of black-and-white prints by Pamela Dodds, recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Roger Mastroianni's powerful black-and-white photos of LTV Steel in the early '90s titled Labor and Industry, closing at Browns Market (761 Starkweather Ave.) from 6-9 p.m. - Anastasia Pantsios

The Manly Pad Legacy //

I moved into Tremont, Cleveland OH, around 1987 because of the affordable housing. I bought a dilapidated storefront with a small house in the back for $14,000. The condition of my new studio was so foul, no sane person would enter. Thus the name, "THE MANLY PAD". The Manly Pad at 2490 Professor St. has been part of the Tremont Art Walk since its inception.

The main focus of my work is to be influenced by life. Whether I am creating a portrait or landscape, I work from live sittings. ( The exception would be Surreal subject matter such as Hidden Danger, which required reference matireal.)

About the Artist //

Timothy Owen Herron

Born 8.7.54
Graduated Revere High School 1972
Attended Cooper School of Art 1976-82 ( full and part time )
Attended Cleveland Institute of Art 1984-88 ( part time )
Attended Cuyahoga Community College for several night classes
The 90's entailed an untold number of Figurative Drawing sessions all over the Northeast Ohio area my entire adult life.