The local DC blog Free in DC used my image of Temple Tile to advertise the opening of the National Small Works Exhibition at Washington Printmaker’s Gallery. So much fun to see my work act as a representative of this diverse show! The opening is Saturday, August 4th from 1 – 4pm in their relatively new Silver Spring location. Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 2nd Fl. | 8230 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 | 301-273-3660
Philadelphia Inquirer just covered a group show I am in at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. The author, Edith Newhall, points to a few works to describe curator Julien Robson’s “attraction to art that pushes beyond the expectations of its particular medium – and that refuses to be easily categorized.” Two of the more obvious examples of resistance in Robson’s exhibition are Virginia Maksymowicz’s fulsome Panis Angelicus, a cast plaster sculpture of what appears to be an upper section of a Corinthian column overflowing with cast-plaster loaves of bread and broken plaster ornamentation, and Leslie Friedman’s Tasty, an installation…
Calling something a “dream come true” sounds cliché (and it is). But in the case of the project I am working on right now, it actually is a dream come true, particularly because my dreams tend to be vivid soap operas with loopy non-sequiturs where just about anything can happen. For the last three years, I have been playing around with identity politics and Jewishness. The experimentation culminated in a show called Glitzianers in which I transformed a gallery room into bright, shiny, woven pathways that moved from the floors to the walls. Bringing that show to fruition was thrilling…
August 1 2012 – August 26 2012 15th Annual National Small Works Leslie Friedman’s Temple Tile and Nasty Button (see below) are amongst the selected small works on exhibition this summer at WPG. From the WPG website: Juried by Brian Garner, founder and master printer, the Litho Shop, Inc, Baltimore, MD. This year’s exibition contains 50 prints by artists across the nation, all under 170 square inches (approx 13×13). Running concurrently is the solo exhibition by our 2010 winner, Kiyomi Baird. The 15th Annual National Small Works is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the…
Fragile Boundaries Exhibition Dates: Jun 15, 2012 – Sep 16, 2012 Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts 200 South Madison Street Wilmington, Delaware 19801 P 302-656-6466 F 302-656-6944 DCCA Members’ Juried Exhibition 2012 exhibiting artists: Nancy Breslin – Brad Carlile – Leslie Friedman – Johanna Inman – Mark Isaac – Michael Kalmbach – Emilie Keim – Laura Ledbetter – Virginia Maksymowicz – Maggie Mills – Joe Netta – James Rose – Ted Walsh From the DCCA website: The Annual Members’ Juried exhibition highlights local and nationally-recognized artists whose works range from drawing and painting to sculpture and photography. Juried by internationally renowned curator Julien Robson, the exhibition…
For years now, I have dreamed about making a functional skateboard halfpipe and finally my dream has come true! I have been selected by ADORATION, a Detroit-based curating duo, for one of their sites for 2012 ArtPrize. Due to the scale of this project, I will be making a Kickstarter Campaign to fund this project and will be looking for your help. ArtPrize is an international art competition held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2012 marks ArtPrize’s fourth competition. The first took place between September 23 and October 10, 2009, and has occurred annually during similar periods of time. ArtPrize is…
Name of the exhibition and artist list are forthcoming, but I am excited to announce that I will be showing at the DCCA Annual Member Show curated by Julien Robson! The exhibition will be held from June 16th – September 16th, 2012 in the Bieber Ham Gallery. The opening reception will be held on Friday July 6th 2012 from 5 – 9 pm, though I hope you can join the DCCA for the subsequent Art Loops on August 3rd and September 7th as well. The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA) is a non-collecting art museum dedicated to the advancement of contemporary art. Their…
Tuesday, April 24th at 7:00pm Hillel at Temple University 15th and Norris, Philadelphia, PA Open to the public Professor Leslie Friedman is offering a talk on Tuesday 4/24, 7pm at the Rosen Hillel in light of the visiting art exhibit, Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust. Professor Friedman teaches at Temple University and University of the Arts, and her artwork, which is inspired by her own Jewish identity and journey, has been featured here in Philadelphia and across the country. Go here for the Facebook invitation.
Over 270 artists from the U.S. and Canada submitted a total of 960 works for consideration for the Oso Bay Printmaking Exhibition. Leslie Friedman is among 78 artists selected for the exhibition by Jurors Bill Fick and Tom Huck. They chose Cargo For Port Derby (2010) for the exhibition. The 2012 Oso Bay North American Printmaking Exhibition will be on display in the Islander Gallery at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi from March 30 through April 26, 2012. You are cordially invited to attend the public reception Thursday, April 26, from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. The jurors will announce recipients…
I got my start making rock n’ roll posters in the basement of AS220.org and I continue to love making event posters when the opportunity arises. See some of the first things I printed when you check out the Poster Gallery.
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