CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

  • EVERYTHING IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
  • GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICE SOLO SHOWS
    • Everson Museum of American Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Panopticon: A Collaboration with Nancy Fridemann-Sánchez 2020
    • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: 2019
    • Ceró Galeria: two-person show with Lucas Ospina, Bogota Colombia: 2018
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: 2018
    • VSOP Projects: Greenport, New York: 2018
    • LUX Center for the Arts: 2017
    • Arts & Culture Center/Hollywood, FL, Miami FL: 2017
    • Museum of Nebraska Art: 2017
    • Omi International Art Center: 2016
    • The Fields at Art Omi: 2016
    • Gallery Diet: 2015
      • Installation Images
      • The Western Code
    • Neues Kunstforum, Köln Germany, two-person show with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: 2014
    • Gallery Diet: 2010
    • Gallery Diet: 2008
    • Barbara Mathes Gallery: 2007
    • Sheldon Museum of Art: 2007
    • White Columns: 2000
    • CRP: 1998
  • BOTTOM OF THE BARREL SCULPTURES/INSTALLATIONS
    • Menorah
    • Portrait of Alex Ross
    • Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Unknown Pleasures
    • Magic Powers (vertical spew)
    • Self-Portrait
    • Magic Powers (45 degree spew)
    • The Talisman
    • Arrows
    • Tiny Talisman
    • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    • Science Project
    • Squirrel Gang
    • Squirrel Gang (Plasticine)
    • Ash Tray
    • Magic Powers
    • Special Powers
    • I LIKE MOIST THINGS
    • Big Red Ball
    • Fake Calder
    • Q-Tips
    • Carpet World
    • Gross Anatomy
    • Lobster Clock
    • Garden
    • Basic Information
    • nancy's tasty vagina
    • Big Eyes
    • Big Eyes II
    • Jellybean Piece
    • G-O-D
    • Cake Box
    • Soundproof Box
  • SUPER CHEAP PHOTOGRAPHS
  • DISCOUNTED PERFORMANCES
  • CHEAPEST VIDEOS
    • One Hours Smile: 1990, 2005, 2015
  • UNDER-PRICED WORKS ON PAPER
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH: Edition of 30
    • EVERTHING IS GOING TO BE OK
    • EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK: Edition of 45
    • Gross Anatomy/Anatomia Completa: Edition of 70
    • Ocean & Sea
    • vagina
    • The Western Code
    • Looking at The Sun
  • BELOW RETAIL PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
    • Big Lake Park: 2014
  • SACRED WRITING
  • SOME RADIO INTERVIEWS
  • SEMI-FICTIONAL CV
  • Statement
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Bibliography
  • Catalogues
Installation A

Gross Anatomy consists of nine highly refined, painted, sculptural figures. Formally, they reference the front and back of a paper doll. Each figure has a “skin” and an “organ” side. The “skin” is appropriated from Joan Miró paintings, and the reverse is an intricately painted anatomical structure designed to contour and fit organically into its respective body. Conceptually, I wanted them to function as though each Miró creature had the possibility of a dual genesis. On one hand, the sculptures exist because of their physiologies; organs, veins, and arteries working together to maintain life. Yet, there is the clear intent of the artist and his hand; the initial idea and the decisive mark that created the image. It is a metaphor about the act of creating: art and life continuously winking at each other yet, it is impossible to determine who winked first.


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