Tom Friedman, Resident Artist Lecture 1999

Tom Friedman shows examples of his conceptual sculptures which use everyday items such as paper, wire, string, feces, chewing gum and balls. He talks about the labor intensive process and the thinking behind each work. The presentation is not chronological, but roughly divided into objects, hanging work, and works in which the speaker or his image was physically part of the work. Questions range from knowing how far to take a piece; to the viewer’s role and how much information the viewer is given and the importance of context (gallery v. other settings) in relation to the works.