Barbara Friedman
     

NEWS

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Barbara Friedman's work will be included in an upcoming four-person show on art history, historiography and the contemporary.
Studio 10
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 852-4396

Opening reception: Friday, February 8, 7-9 P.M.

Exhibition dates: Feb. 8, 2013 – Mar. 3, 2013


Three paintings were recently reproduced in the 2010 issue (#86) of New American Paintings: A catalogue of the winner's work from the 2009 Northeastern Competition. The juror was Monica Ramirez-Montagut, curator of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

SOLO SHOWS

Painting Center
April 24, 2012- May 19, 2012

547 W 27th St #500
New York, NY 10001
(212) 343-1060

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Big & Small/Casual Gallery
Long Island City, NY
May 6- 8, 2011


RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Valentine Gallery
September 14, 2012- October 14, 2012
Group Show
Ridgewood, Queens

This Land
BCB Art

March 3, 2012 – April 8, 2012
Hudson, New York

Governor's Island Artfair 2011
September 2-25, 2011
Building H, 3rd floor, Room 4
Governor's Island, NYC

THE SPECTATOR PLACE
BCB Art

Hudson, NY.

“Where There’s Smoke”

Hampden Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
September-October 2010

Vault Series: Portraits
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford, MA
Paintings, prints, video and drawings by approximately
sixteen artists living in the United States and abroad.
June 4- Sept 11, 2010


"Portraits Today"
Mount Vernon Public Library
Mt. Vernon, NY
April 8- June 12, 2010


"9/11- 11/9: New York/Berlin"
May- June, 2010
Galerie am Meer, Berlin

New Paintings (Solo Exhibition)
February 23- March 18, 2010
Peter Fingesten Gallery
Pace University, New York, NY

“It’s a Wonderful 10th”
January 9-February 20, 2010
Sideshow Gallery
Williamsburg, NY

"Selections"
January, 2010
BCB ART

Hudson, New York

Michael Steinberg Fine Arts
New York City

Video of Barbara Friedman discussing "Overlook Paintings."
"Overlook Study (Balcony)" featured as Pic of the Day on artcritical.com

"New York/Wuppertal," Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Gallery Epikur, and other Wuppertal locations,
Wuppertal, Germany.

"Here's Looking at Us (Portraits of Artists by Artists),"
Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York City.

"What's in a Face?," Salena Gallery, Library Learning Center, Ground floor; Brooklyn Campus,
Long Island University; 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11201; October – November 2008.

"RISD NYC Alumni Biennial 2008."
Old American Can Factory, Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Solo exhibition of new Barbara Friedman paintings
Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, New York

PRESS RELEASES + INVITATIONS

"Overlook Paintings" Michael Steinberg Fine Arts
Press Release
Van Brunt Invitation
Ober Gallery Invitation
"In Passing" Michael Steinberg Fine Arts Invitation
"In Passing" Michael Steinberg Fine Arts Press Release

PRESS

Video
Interview with Barbara Friedman on French Television

The Brooklyn Days Blog (scroll down to April 25th)

"...a beautiful painter, very subtle and understated."

"Barbara Friedman’s semiabstract paintings, on view at The Ober Gallery in Kent, Connecticut, are packed with movement and emotion, though they are thoroughly unsentimental…her work portrays the constant tension between having – and not having. 

In 'Garden of the Finzi-Continis II,' a reference to the novel (and movie) about doomed upper-class Italian Jews in WWII, a bright green tennis court is lined in hot pink: preppie colors.  But the court isn’t whole; it’s a half court.  And there are no players …Beyond the court is a background of dark trees with touches of red; they suggest smoldering embers.  In 'Disappearing Bus,' we see the back end of a yellow school bus taking off into a hazy, murky somewhere else.  It’s an everyday moment loaded with fear, potential loss."