Tom Friedman

2006 Exhibition of new work at Gagosian Galllery in 2006. Essays by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Lawrence Douglas and Alexander George. Empiricist, alchemist, sage, and prankster, Friedman invents startling works of art by taking very ordinary materials – paper, wire, cardboard, plastic cups, pencils, foam core, Styrofoam and other odds and ends at hand – and transforming them using highly specific processes. Whether constructing or deconstructing the object, either on a microscopic or macroscopic level, he strives to comprehend the elementary mechanisms of visual and plastic metabolism.