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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0012666
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Work Title (display):
Untitled Lambda Print
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1998
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2014-09-09
Work Creator (display):
Tom Friedman (American, born 1965)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor. At the heart of Friedman's idiosyncratic work is a denial that art must be grand in scale in order to be large in meaning. Profoundly antiheroic, formally diminutive and whimsical in choice of materials, his delicate small scale works are an assertion that focus and concentration, rather than size and ambition, can determine the scope of an artwork. He started exhibiting soon after completing an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. His work was positively received as a refreshing alternative to what could be seen as the slick production values of American art during the 1980s. Reminiscent of the process-oriented Minimalism of the 1970s, Friedman's work was infused with a content that could be as humorous as it was serious. Untitled (1990), an early work in the form of a perfectly smooth 5-inch diameter ball of chewed gum, hinted at an earnestness in Minimal art by using the more derogatory cultural reference of the gum-chewing kid. Friedman always used prosaic objects, such as rubber bands, soap and drinking straws, as his sculptural materials. Through such neglected and commonplace things he explored themes of much greater import, turning the accumulation of almost imperceptible gestures into something surprisingly grandiose. These include Untitled (1995; see 1997 exh. cat.), a starburst made from approximately 30,000 toothpicks. While this and other works refer simultaneously to the galactic or molecular, to the infinitely large and the infinitesimally small, he also made obsessive and intimate works concerning the self, including Untitled (19934)a self-portrait carved into a tablet of aspirin. In 1993 he left Chicago to undertake a residency at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT; he subsequently remained on the East Coast, settling in Massachusetts. (Andrew Cross. "Friedman, Tom." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 18 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Worktype:
laser prints
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laser prints
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Work Worktype:
photographs
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photographs
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Work Worktype:
prints (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
prints
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Work Material and Technique (display):
ink on paper
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Source Reproduction refid:
batch_20140905_02
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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