CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

  • EVERYTHING IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
    • GUN SHOW
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Everson Museum of American Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Panopticon: A Collaboration with Nancy Fridemann-Sánchez 2020
    • Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: 2019
    • Ceró Galeria: two-person show with Lucas Ospina, Bogota Colombia: 2018
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Nancy Friedeman-Sánchez: 2018
    • VSOP Projects: Greenport, New York: 2018
    • LUX Center for the Arts: 2017
    • Arts & Culture Center/Hollywood, FL, Miami FL: 2017
    • Museum of Nebraska Art: 2017
    • Omi International Art Center: 2016
    • The Fields at Art Omi: 2016
    • Gallery Diet: 2015
      • Installation Images
      • The Western Code
    • Neues Kunstforum, Köln Germany, two-person show with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: 2014
    • Gallery Diet: 2010
    • Gallery Diet: 2008
    • Barbara Mathes Gallery: 2007
    • Sheldon Museum of Art: 2007
    • White Columns: 2000
    • CRP: 1998
  • SCULPTURE-INSTALLATION
    • Gun Show
    • Menorah
    • Portrait of Alex Ross
    • Soundtracks for the Present Future
    • Unknown Pleasures
    • Magic Powers (vertical spew)
    • Self-Portrait
    • Magic Powers (45 degree spew)
    • The Talisman
    • Arrows
    • Tiny Talisman
    • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    • Science Project
    • Squirrel Gang
    • Squirrel Gang (Plasticine)
    • Ash Tray
    • Magic Powers
    • Special Powers
    • I LIKE MOIST THINGS
    • Big Red Ball
    • Fake Calder
    • Q-Tips
    • Carpet World
    • Gross Anatomy
    • Lobster Clock
    • Garden
    • Basic Information
    • nancy's tasty vagina
    • Big Eyes
    • Big Eyes II
    • Jellybean Piece
    • G-O-D
    • Cake Box
    • Soundproof Box
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    • One Hours Smile: 1990, 2005, 2015
  • PAPER
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH
    • HOLOCAUST DENIERS WORD SEARCH: Edition of 30
    • EVERTHING IS GOING TO BE OK
    • EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK: Edition of 45
    • Gross Anatomy/Anatomia Completa: Edition of 70
    • Ocean & Sea
    • vagina
    • The Western Code
    • Looking at The Sun
  • COMMISSION
    • Big Lake Park: 2014
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Nipple Eyes
2004
C-Prints
30" x 40" each

Playing upon my interest in symbols and the necessary markers to communicate their meanings, this image extrapolates the formal similarities between the concentric circles of the iris and pupil with that of the areola and nipple. To emphasize this eye connection, I shaved the surrounding hair into the iconic almond shape of a human eye. This formal resemblance combined with our natural instinct to see faces and symbols in the world results in the absurd impulse to stare into the nipples as one might eyes, and even assign them emotions.


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