Lauren
Friedman
Painter
and Sculptor Lauren Friedman's work is heavily steeped
in representing the unreal. Things that are familiar,
yet unfamiliar. Unreal realism. As a mixed media sculptor,
Friedman focuses greatly on textiles, texture, media
and craft. She creates mythical/biblical images using
the media of fabrics or feathers. Her quest in art
is to find the magic in objects, the magic in shape
in form, the magic in a material. Creating mythical/biblical
images in the round, on paper or in oil on canvas,
Friedman searches for the power in all art forms,
moving from the wall to the floor and back again,
connecting the different worlds. Connecting the real
with the unreal is the real magic in art. This is
what gives the world power - be it religion or science
or the heart. The real and the unreal come together
in her work in regards to her process. Proper technique
and craft is very important and she utilizes this
to create the unreal, the unseen, the magic - blending
of the two worlds. Friedman's work tends to have heavy
doses of the dramatic. While her work can be highly
representational, it is based more on fantasy than
reality - more on the reality of the heart and the
mind. She focuses on fears of the soul - things that
are seen within, and less of what is seen with the
eye. She prefers to see through the naked soul rather
than through the eye. Friedman is a graduate from
the University of Southern Maine with a BFA and a
BA in Art History, and received her MFA from the University
of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the University
of Pittsburgh and is currently a faculty member at
Duquense University, teaching design, sculpture, watercolor
and drawing. her work has been exhibited both locally
and nationally.
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