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May 7, 2019 to July 26, 2020 | Sculpture Garden

Tom Friedman: Hazmat Love

The highly inventive and idiosyncratic work of Tom Friedman (b. 1965) often uses everyday materials to explore the nature of object making in our material culture.

Artworks

Two figures made out of crumpled baking pans cast in polished stainless steel
Two figures made out of crumpled baking pans cast in polished stainless steel with a large white building in the background
Close up of two figures with mirrored faces

Since 2007 the artist has been creating sculpture made of aluminum foil, roasting pans, and baking tins. His work Hazmat Love (2017) presents two wrestling figures whose bodies are clothed in a protective armor made out of crumpled baking pans cast in polished stainless steel. As with most of Friedman’s work the meaning lies in ambiguity tinged with humor: are the figures fighting, dancing, or helping each other? The figures in Hazmat Love will greet visitors on the patio in front of the Museum’s entrance.

Organized by Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, and Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

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Funders

Generous support for The Aldrich Sculpture Garden is provided by The Leir Foundation and the Anne S. Richardson Fund.

Top image: Tom Friedman, Hazmat Love, 2017, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London © Tom Friedman, Photo: Christopher E. Manning