Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman

 

Tom Friedman is a conceptual sculpture artist from America.  Friedman creates his sculptures by taking normal everyday objects and placing them in complicated geometric patterns.  He has exhibited work in London, Tokyo, Rome, and several other prestigious cities.  His work Untitled (sun) is representative with his use of repeated everyday objects, in which more than 3,500 wooden dowel rods were painted yellow and then glued into a Styrofoam ball.  Other famous sculptures he has made include a sphere made from 1,500 pieces of chewed bubble gum, and a self-portrait of himself in the form of a shattered person lying on the floor, made out of construction paper.

            I like Tom Friedman’s artworks a lot, and I am inspired by the items he uses.  I like that he uses everyday objects and presents them to the public in new and impressive ways.  The way he combines the objects in large repeating numbers and builds them into geometric shapes gives a good impact on the viewer.  My favorite piece of his is Untitled, 1992 which at first glance is a bunch of different sized and colored balls piled atop of one another.  However, when I did more research I learned that each of these balls was stolen by the artist.  The amount of balls Friedman stole amounts to about 200, which gives the artwork a whole new meaning.