Space 1026 1026 Arch Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 http://www.space1026.com Tastier an solo-installation by Leslie Friedman 7.5.13 – 7.26.13 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Real Coke taste with zero sugar. It’s possible.” TASTIER an exhibition by LESLIE FRIEDMAN at SPACE 1026 GALLERY July 2013 7.5.13 – 7.26.13 Tastier, an installation by artist Leslie Friedman, expands on a body of work which made its debut in Tasty, a solo exhibition held at Napoleon Gallery in February 2012. Tastier is a site-specific installation created for the expansive gallery at Space 1026 and, while it continues to explore the pervasiveness of sugar substitutes in…

Main Line Art Center Twists the Traditional in Urban Pop 9th Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition March 20 – April 12, 2013 Featuring Artists DISTORT, Leslie Friedman and Jay Walker Curated by: Amie Potsic, Executive Director of Main Line Art Center Artist Talk & Opening Reception:  Fri., March 22 Artist Talk: 5:30-6:30 pm Opening Reception: 6:30-8:30 pm Closing Reception: Thurs., April 11, 6-8 pm HAVERFORD, PA (February 26, 2013)—Take what you thought you knew about Main Line Art Center and twist it.  Start with classic artistic training, add in graffiti, skateboard half-pipe references, and then a layer of vinyl tape….

Providence, Rhode Island is the birthplace of Leslie Friedman and the location of her next solo show. Fun Guys is an exhibition of modular, stackable sculptural pieces that reference the positive and negative stereotype of the Jewish people made of screenprinted tiles wrapped around wooden armatures.  Though geometric, graphic, and colorful, this undulating wall sculpture suggest organic forms found in nature. Opening Reception Thursday January 10, 2013 7:00 – 9:00 pm Gallery (401) 401 Elmgrove Ave. Providence, RI 02906 Exhibition Dates: 1.10.13 – 3.7.13 The open hours are: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Monday through Thursday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm…

After the fundraising, the emails, and all the posts on Facebook, many of you wondered “What ever happened to that project we heard so much about?” Well, the wait is over!  Images from Half Piped Ideas are finally available! Thank you to everyone who supported, both financially, spiritually, and physically. In particular I would like to thank to very special interns, Andrea Savidge and Sofia Ramirez Hernandez.  Andrea and I worked together all summer long to churn out tiles and Sofia helped me to mount the piece in Grand Rapids.  Your endless hours of help made this project possible.  Thank…

Half Piped Ideas is included in this amazing show in Grand Rapids… ACTIONS : MUTATIONS : REVISIONS : FORMATIONS Inspired by the theatrics of ArtPrize, the Adoration curatorial team produced a site-specific exhibition, showcasing an array of multi-media artworks and performances. Using Calder Plaza and the Grand Rapids Police Department as a backdrop, an international ensemble of thirty artists has been brought together to stage the public exhibition Actions : Mutations : Revisions : Formations. For more details see the exhibition guide book (available in printed format during ArtPrize). Or visit http://www.adorationdetroit.com According to the press release: Leslie Friedman, Philadelphia,…

ArtWorks, Trenton, New Jersey September 7 – October 13, 2012 Leslie Friedman, Stereotems, mixed media, 2012. Artist Talks & Reception:  Friday, September 21st 5 – 6pm Talks, 6 – 8pm Reception Curated by:  Amie Potsic and Sean Stoops Artists: LEWIS COLBURN DON EDLER LESLIE FRIEDMAN DANIEL GERWIN REBECCA GILBERT KAY HEALY HEECHAN KIM JOHANNA INMAN MAMI KATO DANIEL KORNRUMPF MAGGIE MILLS JENNIFER WILLIAMS KIMBERLY WITHAM Visions & Vignettes is an exhibition by Career Development Program Fellows at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists featuring site specific installations, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, and paintings, which reference unique perspectives, created environments, and…

Fans, Friends and Family, We have 11 days left to raise funds for Half Piped Ideas.  Many of you have already supported and many have shared this link with their friends, too, and for that, I am so grateful. We are at the halfway point of the ultimate goal of coming in just shy of $4,500.  In order to fully fund this project, we need to double that. The good news is I have the under-structure completely designed and it is in the process of being built.  Because the fundraiser has been pretty successful, I have decided to make the…

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…