Tom Friedman - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 14, 2013 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection

  • 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 (String Figure)

2005
Coloured string and painted styrofoam
246.5 x 60 x 60 cm (97 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in)

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 

Contemporary Art Day Sale

15 February 2013
London