Untitled
2003 · Colored pencil and felt-tip pen on paper
3/4 x 3/4" (1.9 x 1.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Tom Friedman
1965
SculptureConceptual Art
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None documented
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10
Works in Collection
22
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3
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Tom Friedman makes sculpture, installation, drawing, and video works rooted in a conceptual practice that subjects ordinary materials and everyday objects to obsessive, often invisible transformation. Born in St. Louis in 1965, he treats mundane materials as both medium and subject, finding structural and philosophical complexity in acts of repetition, removal, and reconfiguration. His graphic illustration training informs a precision of mark and form that runs through work across every scale. The result is a body of work in which the gap between the unremarkable source and the labor embedded in the final object is central to its meaning.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Washington University in St. Louis
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University of Illinois Chicago
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John Burroughs School
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