Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Retrospective, June 20–August 22, 2008
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)
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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