Tom Friedman - New Now New York Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Gagosian Gallery, Retrospective, June 20–August 22, 2008

  • Literature

    Daniel Kunitz, “Retrospective': Been There, Sold That,” The New York Sun, July 3, 2008, online (illustrated)
    "Go See: “RETROSPECTIVE” Group Show at Gagosian, Chelsea, NY Through August 22," Art Observed, July 23, 2008, online (illustrated)

  • 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.

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Inside Out

cardboard box, christmas lights, Styrofoam, and various media from the artist's studio
26 1/4 x 186 x 55 in. (66.7 x 472.4 x 139.7 cm)
Executed in 1991–2006.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $6,300

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen

Head of Sale, New Now

212 940 1207

asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 9 March 2022