No Reserve
159
Tom Friedman
Inside Out
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000•
$6,300
Lot Details
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.
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Full-Cataloguing
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Exhibited
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Tom Friedman
American | 1965Tom 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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