Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman was born 1965 BirthSt. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Lives and works in HomeConway, Massachusetts.
Categories: Sculpture Objects Neo-Conceptualism Postminimalism
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tom friedman’s funny and clever sculptures are passive-aggressive,
we see them through the eyes of the outsider, the alien, the artist.
looking at these sculptures is sort of like looking too closely
in the mirror and seeing fields of blackheads on your otherwise
lovely and photogenic nose. but at the same time things are
simpler here on friedman’s side…
Bienal Sao Paolo
Tom Friedman’s work seduces the audience into a deeper phenomenological discourse about art and life. Quantum Physicist David Bohm tells us that the shape of a bumble bee’s wings, their velocity of operation and their size, compared to the bee’s body conflict with its ability to fly – plainly, this thing should not be flying! Tom Friedman’s work is this way – is it really art?
The quirky, beautiful work of Tom Friedman defies categorization. While his art is often linked to 1960s Conceptualism and Minimal art, Friedman invents his own visual language through his almost obsessive attentiveness to detail and his striking ability to transform the familiar into the unexpected…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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