Artist Center: Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman’s work explores material transformation through minimal, focused, repetitive interaction. He takes everyday objects and transforms them into new things. With is works, it is hard to determine what they original product was from a glance, but once you look at his art you begin to see what he has taken and transformed into something completely new.

Friedman takes his time to construct each piece, so it does not look like its original form. He also helps objects to become or to look like something in real life, such as with his work with the bees. His works are not complicated in sense that they are not made up of many objects, but they are complicated by how much detail and time he spends in each piece to make it look the way it does. There are many strong elements in his pieces such as line, color, texture, and form, and he uses each term to bring each piece to the next level. His pieces have movement, show depth and give a sense of awe when you look at them for how much detail is put into them.

Friedman works with many different objects, and his sculptures range in many sizes from very small like a bee to the size of a room. Tom Friedman’s work helps give us a new description on everyday objects and see what they can be transformed into.