Tom Friedman - Luhring Augustine

Tom Friedman
Born 1965

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1989
Toothpaste
43 ½ x 36 ½ inches
Toothpaste applied to the wall

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2000
Construction paper
12 x 114 x 120 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1993
Black and white photograph
Edition of 7
35 x 25 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1990
Bubble gum
Approximately 1,500 pieces of chewed bubble gum molded into a sphere and displayed at head height in a corner, hanging by its own stickiness

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Garbage bags and pedestal
63 x 28 x 20 inches
Approximately 3,000 garbage bags layered one inside the other until no more could be added

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Stolen balls
20 x 36 inches
About 200 balls, stolen by the artist over a six-month period

Tom Friedman
Untitled<i> (A Curse)</i>, 1992
Witch’s curse and pedestal
52 x 11 x 11 inches
A spherical space 11 inches in diameter and 11 inches above the pedestal that has been cursed by a witch

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Wooden school chair
34 x 22 x 22 inches
Hundreds of holes drilled into a wooden school chair

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Wooden school chair
34 x 22 x 22 inches
Hundreds of holes drilled into a wooden school chair

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Feces on pedestal
Pedestal: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
A sphere of the artist’s feces ½ mm in diameter centered on a cubed pedestal

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1992
Detail
Feces on pedestal
Pedestal: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
A sphere of the artist’s feces ½ mm in diameter centered on a cubed pedestal

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1993
Plastic cups
Diameter: 40 inches
A continuous ring of plastic drinking cups, one inside the other

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1994
Aspirin
¼ x 3/8 x 3/8 inches
A self-portrait carved from an aspirin

Tom Friedman
<i>Loop</i>, 1995
Spaghetti
Diameter: 12 inches
All the strands from a one-pound box of spaghetti, cooked, dried and connected end-to-end. The first piece connects to the last to form a continuous loop

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Pencils
11 x 14 x 11 inches
Sections of pencil glued together end-to-end to form a continuous loop

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Pill capsule and Play-Doh
¼ x ¾ x ¼ inches
A gelatin pill capsule filled with tiny spheres of Play-Doh

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Detail
Pill capsule and Play-Doh
¼ x ¾ x ¼ inches
A gelatin pill capsule filled with tiny spheres of Play-Doh

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Toothpicks
26 x 30 x 23 inches
A starburst construction made out of 30,000 toothpicks

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1996
Cardboard box corners
24 x 33 x 31 inches
A construction made from the corners of cardboard boxes that contained products the artist used over the course of one year

Tom Friedman
<i>Space Station</i>, 1997
Household objects and spray paint
32 x 32 x 17 inches
A space station made with objects found around the house, spraypainted white

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1999
Cardboard and Styrofoam
100 x 30 x 22 inches
A robot made from cardboard and covered with Styrofoam balls

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1999
Sugar cubes
48 x 17 x 10 inches
A self-portrait made from sugar cube

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Cereal boxes
31 ¼ x 21 ¼ x 6 ¾ inches
Nine Total cereal boxes cut into small squares and combined to make one large box

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2002
Cardboard box and Styrofoam
23 ¾ x 27 x 27 inches
A cardboard box covered with Styrofoam balls

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2002
Packing peanuts
22 x 22 x 22 inches
A cube made by gluing together pink packing peanuts

Tom Friedman
<i>flatyarnmonster</i>, 2006
Yarn
66 x 62 inches

Tom Friedman
<i>Open Black Box</i>, 2006
Black construction paper
137 x 137 x 137 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2005
Paint
Each: 4 x 11 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches
A replica of the artist’s shoes made entirely out of paint

Tom Friedman
<i>Untitled (blue creature)</i>, 2010
Styrofoam and acrylic paint
90 x 29 x 8 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled <i>(blue creature)</i>, 2010
Detail
Styrofoam and acrylic paint
90 x 29 x 8 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled<i> (blue creature)</i>, 2010
Styrofoam and acrylic paint
90 x 29 x 8 inches

Tom Friedman
<i>Circle Dance</i>, 2009
Aluminum foil
7 ½ x 23 x 23 inches

Tom Friedman
<i>Up in the Air<i>, 2009
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
Installation at Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

Tom Friedman
<i>Up in the Air<i>, 2009
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
Installation at Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

Tom Friedman
<i>Up in the Air</i>, 2009
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
Installation at Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

Tom Friedman
<i>Up in the Air<i>, 2009
Mixed media
Variable dimensions
Installation at Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2011
Yarn
53 x 49 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2011
Detail
Yarn
53 x 49 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1990
Paper
2 parts, each: 11 x 8 ½ inches
Two identically wrinkled sheets of paper

Tom Friedman
<i>Everything</i>, 1995
Ink on paper
36 x 36 inches
All of the words in an English language dictionary written on a piece of paper

Tom Friedman
<i>Everything</i>, 1995
Detail
Ink on paper
36 x 36 inches
All of the words in an English language dictionary written on a piece of paper

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2005
Colored pencil on paper
19 x 24 inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1995
Pastel on paper
19 ½ x 15 ¾ inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1996
C-print
Edition of 7
3 x 4 ¼ inches
A snapshot-sized photograph in which an image of a small clay sculpture has been merged with one of a landscape

Tom Friedman
<i>1000 Hours of Staring</i>, 1992-97
Paper
32 ½ x 32 ½ inches
A blank piece of paper stared at by the artist for 1,000 hours

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1997
Marker on paper
30 x 32 inches
A field of dots made by placing a marker on a piece of paper and allowing the ink to bleed

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1997
Detail
Marker on paper
30 x 32 inches
A field of dots made by placing a marker on a piece of paper and allowing the ink to bleed

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1997
Ink on paper
54 x 42 ½ inches
A drawing of an accumulation of dots connected by lines and arrows

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1997
Detail
Ink on paper
54 x 42 ½ inches
A drawing of an accumulation of dots connected by lines and arrows

Tom Friedman
<i>Secrets</i>, 1997
Ink on paper
11 x 8 ½ inches
The artist’s secrets written so small they can’t be read

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1997
Colored pencil and graphite on paper
Left: 41 x 45 ½ inches
Right: 41 ½ x 41 ¼ inches

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 1999
Dollar bills
14 x 35 ¼ inches
36 dollar bills combined to make one large dollar bill

Tom Friedman
Untitled, 2001
Photographs and museum board
60 x 40 inches
Approximately 36 passport photographs cut into small squares and combined to make one large portrait

Tom Friedman
Untitled <i>(back of dollar)</i>, 2011
Detail
Colored pencil on paper
26 x 60 ½ inches

<i>Untitled (sun)</i>, 2012
Wood, Styrofoam and paint
Approximately 3,650 12-inch wooden dowels, painted yellow, were stuck and glued into a 12-inch Styrofoam ball, at varying angles.
32 x 32 x 32 inches
(81.28 x 81.28 x 81.28 cm)

<i>Untitled (peeing figure)</i>, 2012
Stainless steel
From an edition of 3 and 2 artist's proofs
Figure: 96 x 30 x 27 inches
(243.84 x 76.2 x 68.58 cm)
Urine stream: 56 x 10 x 1/2 inches
(142.24 x 25.4 x 1.27 cm)

<i>Untitled (video camera)</i>, 2012
Wood and paint
63 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches
(161.29 x 113.03 x 113.03 cm)

<i>Untitled (lily pads)</i>, 2012
Collage
Three separate collages, each the same size, were made with circles cut from various magazines. Each collage was then cut into 1/8 inch strips and combined systematically into one collage.
41 3/4 x 71 inches
(106.05 x 180.34 cm)

<i>Untitled (kite)</i>, 2012
Wood, paint and monofilament
Diameter of base: 41 1/2 inches
Figure: 1 1/8 x 3/8 inches
String: Dimension varies

<i>Untitled (kite)</i>, 2012
Detail
Wood, paint and monofilament
Diameter of base: 41 1/2 inches
Figure: 1 1/8 x 3/8 inches
String: Dimension varies

<i>Untitled (verisimilitude)</i>, 2012
Graphite on paper
15 5/16 x 12 7/16 inches
(38.89 x 31.59 cm)

<i>Untitled (verisimilitude)</i>, 2012
Detail
Graphite on paper
15 5/16 x 12 7/16 inches
(38.89 x 31.59 cm)

Tom Friedman
Born 1965

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