EAF06: 2006 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition


Martha Freidman

 

Laid, 2006
Rubber
9’ 2" x 2’ 7” x 22”
Special thanks: Andrew McNay

An artist who has often dealt with precarious placement and balance in her previous works, Friedman has created a Brancusi-like column of oversized, rubberized eggs that perch one on top of the other in a seemingly impossible acrobatic composition.

Born 1975, Detroit, MI
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education
2003 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1998 B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1996 M.A. Audited, University of Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

Selected Exhibitions:
Bunch, Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2007)
Mystic River II, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (2006)
Mystic River, SouthFirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2006)
Space Between The Spokes, KS Art, New York, NY (2006)
Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, NY (2006); Excitations, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (2005)
The Reality of Things, Triple Candie, New York, NY (2004)
Buy American, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France (2004)
Textuality, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL (1998)
Anti-Archival Show, Columbia Center Book/Paper Arts, Chicago, IL (1997)