Tom Friedman - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Private Collection
    Phillips, London, 12 October 2011, lot 34
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Tom Friedman

    American • 1965

    Tom Friedman is a multimedia artist working mainly in sculpture and works-on-paper. Interested in looking at the thin line between fantasy and autobiography, Friedman often creates works that push viewers into a complicit state of witnessing. His sculptures are composed of a multitude of objects, and he assembles them in such a way as to transform the mundane into an intricate work of art. He combines materials such as Styrofoam, foil, paper, clay, wire, hair and fuzz through a labor-intensive practice that seeks to tell a story, whether about himself or the world at large.

    Friedman's approach to autobiography is not memoiristic. Rather, he takes the smallest moments of his life, like a piece of paper found on the street, and blows it out of proportion.

    View More Works

245

Untitled (T.V. Sprinkles)

signed, titled and dated 'Tom Friedman "Untitled" 2006' on the artist's Styrofoam box
construction paper, foam board, wood, tin, LCD monitor and computer software with sound
100 x 67 x 53 cm (39 3/8 x 26 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2006, this work is from an edition of 2.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Contact Specialist
Tamila Kerimova
Specialist, Head of Day Sale
+ 44 20 7318 4065
tkerimova@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 5 October 2017