2/29/2012

Auerbach Lecture Series: Tom Friedman

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2:15 - 3:15pm

Wilde Auditorium,
Harry Jack Gray Center

Guest artist Tom Friedman will present a talk as part of the Hartford Art School’s Auerbach Lecture Series. The lecture, sponsored by the Sculpture Department, is free and open to the public.

Tom Friedman is known for transforming mundane materials into meticulously crafted works of art. His work is accessed easily by anyone, the entrance being a flippant level of humor that takes one into a deeper phenomenological discourse about art and life itself. He can seduce us into these deeper levels, or we can enjoy the artwork for its simple humor and beauty.

Mr. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1965 and received his B.F.A. at Washington University, St. Louis and his M.F.A. at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Tom has exhibited extensively in major museums throughout the world, some of which include: South London Gallery, London; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, which traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Aspen Art Museum in Colorado, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo; Saint Louis Art Museum; Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills and London; Magasin 3, Stockholm; FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. In February 2012, Friedman will be exhibiting at Luhring Augustine Gallery, his first solo exhibition in New York since 2005.

Tom lives in Leverett, Massachusetts with his wife, children, and a real nice dog.