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Tom Friedman

Untitled (dollar bill, back)

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000
Lot Details
Screenprint in colors, on Lanaquarelle paper, with full margins.
2011
I. 19 3/8 x 50 1/2 in. (49.2 x 128.3 cm)
S. 25 1/4 x 56 1/4 in. (64.1 x 142.9 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 5/100 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), co-published by Stephen Friedman Gallery and Luhring Augustine, New York, framed.

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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