Tom Friedman - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 18, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Feature Inc., New York

  • Exhibited

    Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Zero–G: When
    Gravity becomes Form, June 4 - August 4, 1999; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Waste Management, April 7 - July 11, 1999 (another example exhibited); Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Aspen Art Museum; Winston - Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, July 8, 2000 - February 3, 2002, Tom Friedman, p. 35 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    B. Hainley, “Next to Nothing: The Art of Tom Friedman,” Artforum, November, 1995, p. 74 (illustrated); B. Adams & L. Liemann, Young Americans 2: New American Art at the Saatchi Gallery, London 1998, n.p. (illustrated); B. Hainley, D. Cooper & A. Searle, Tom Friedman, London 2001, p. 49 (illustrated); G. Celant, ed., Tom Friedman, Fondazione Prada, Milan 2002, p. 14 (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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Untitled

1993
Gelatin silver print.
33 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (86 x 60.6 cm).
Signed, inscribed, titled, numbered and dated “Untitled 1993T.TF 9303 Tom Friedman” on the reverse of backing board. This work is from an edition of seven plus two artist’s proofs.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Contemporary Art Part II

18 May 2007
10am & 2pm New York