NEWS
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.
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
BCB Art
Hudson, NY,
August 2010
UPCOMING GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"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
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
“Where There’s Smoke”
Hampden Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA,
September-October 2010
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
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."