Leslie Friedman – DonArtNews.com By Don Brewer In an interview. “The way that I collage is a 21st Century way of collage-ing. It’s using the internet to get all my imagery, finding things and altering them. So, I’m not cutting up magazines or photographs, my collage is all done on line…I feel like this young generation, whatever you want to call it, uses the internet so fluidly.”
The Curator: Fake Sugar and Sugarhouse – Critical Mass By Courtney Sexton An excerpt from the review: “With its electric colors and alluring shine, “Tasty” is an awesome homage to Pop Art – oversized cans of Coke Zero take over the floor of the gallery, spilling out hot-pink plastic liquids. Scattered among the cans are giant packages of Truvia, Splenda, and Sweet ‘N’ Low, and hanging from the ceiling is a Warhol-esque triptych of a wide-eyed woman’s open mouth getting more of that pink liquid poured into it from a shiny can of substitute … something.”
Leslie Friedman’s Tasty at Napoleon – The ArtBlog by Libby Rosof Excerpt from review: “In a world where James Rosenquist painted a deadpan F-111 with a mixture of adoration and dread, so Friedman creates her salvation and her nemesis with equal ambivalence. It’s here, in this ambivalence, combined with sexual messages about desire, and cultural messages about women, their roles and their value, that this seemingly simple installation finds its not-so-simple content.”
Leslie Friedman at Napoleon – Printeresting by Amzen Emmons Excerpt from review: “A polemic of a print installation, Tasty pounces on ones visual sensibilities the moment you enter the intimate gallery space. Friedman has a virtuous ability with screen printing, and she deploys it ruthlessly here, with a pallet of high-key colors reminiscent of some kind of a Mentos explosion.”
“Introductions 2012” Opens – City Suburban News CitySuburbanNews_2-1-12 pdf download “CFEVA’s Career Development Program is a highly selective fellowship with only a 2% acceptance rate. This years applicant pool was 352 artists with just 6 new fellows being selected. These six artists represent some of the most promising talent among emerging artists in the region: Leslie Friedman, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Gilbert, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Johanna Inman.”
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) has named their new Career Development fellows and Leslie Friedman was one of six chosen for the graduation year of 2014. Other new members include Johanna Inman, Daniel Gerwin, Kay Healy, Heechan Kim, and Rebecca Gilbert.
NAPOLEON is a member-based gallery started in July 2010 with an inaugural show by Christopher Hartshorne. The founders are Daryl Bergman and Leslie Friedman and the gallery is located in the heart of Philadelphia in the Rollins Building. By August, 10 members were named and a schedule created for the first, experimental year. Members include: Daryl Bergman, Matt Kayhoe Brett, Dustin Campbell, Leslie Friedman, Christopher Hartshorne, Jose Ortiz Pagan (OTS), Jordan Rockford, H John Thompson, Tamsen Wojanowski, and Jake Yeager. Check out NAPOLEON at http://www.napoleonnapoleon.com and email napoleon.philadelphia@gmail.com NAPOLEON 319 N. 11th Street, 2L Philadelphia, PA
Weekly Update–A Great Big Woot! from Tyler’s graduating MFA’s – By Roberta Fallon “Also playful is Leslie Friedman’s “Sukkot Ramp,” a hand-serigraphed path of linoleum tiles that runs up what looks to be a skateboard ramp on one wall and dead-ends after a hairpin turn in a wall without a ramp. Why she created a suicidal Jewish holiday skateboard ramp is something I couldn’t figure out.”
Fossil Fools with Leslie Friedman – Pattern Pulp by Shayna Kulik Excerpt from review: “Friedman’s most recent collection, titled, Fossil Fools, embodies all that Providence printmaking represents: an appreciation of industrial craft, the belief in DIY/punk ethos and the acknowledgment of political and historical significance in promoting civil liberties. Through humor, bold color and collage, her serigraphs are funny, honest, expressive compositions that awaken the democratic spirit.”
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