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Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman (Born 1965) is active/lives in Massachusetts, Missouri.  Tom Friedman is known for Sculptor-conceptual, everyday object.

Tom Friedman, conceptual artist, uses everyday materials including sugar cubes, soap powder, toothpicks, construction paper, spaghetti, bubble gum, hair, tooth paste, and toilet paper.

Friedman, who rarely titles his work, employs a labor-intensive technique related to process art, and creates humorous and elemental works out of
materials that typically don't get human attention. For instance, a glob of bubble gum is stuck to the floor and stretched to the ceiling. In one piece,
thousands of words written on paper become an abstract design, and in
another, a piece of styrofoam is reduced to dust and then sculpted into an
improbably thin, gravity-defying tower.

Friedman's search for meaning in the ordinary broadens themes begun
in the 60s and 70s with pop art, minimalism, process art and conceptual art.

Of a fall 2000 exhibition of his work at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, a critic wrote: "The materials may be mundane, but the artist   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1751 characters.]  Artist bio

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