Tom Friedman

I don't know much about Tom Friedman except that he makes me laugh and his art has something to do with commercial products and repetition maybe. I'll look into it more tomorrow, but here's a few photographs. The last 2 in particular would make me lol if I didn't hate it when people wrote lol. He also seems to like the circular form, which I'm interested in myself. The artwork in the last picture is not actually the block - that's just the plinth. It's a sphere of space above plinth, which has been cursed by a witch. What makes it more real, the idea of it having been visited by the witches physical presence or the introduction of the idea of a sphere shape (of  nothing)? Anyway, it makes me laugh. Job done. 

1. Untitled 1995 Toothpicks 66 x 76.2 x 58.4 cm 26 x 30 x 23"
2. Untitled 1990 The artist writes his signature repeatedly for the life of a pen 106.7 cm
3. Tom Friedman, Untitled 1999/2002 wooden school chair, 35 x16-½ x 24-½ inches Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery
4. Two By Four 1990 A 2 x 4in wooden plank painted in acrylic to look exactly like itself 121.9 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm
5. Untitled - A Curse 1992 An 11inch sphere of space floating 11inch above the top of a pedestal cursed by a witch 133.4 x 28 x 28 cm