CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

CHARLEY FRIEDMAN

  • EXHIBITIONS
    • Nemeth Art Center: Magic and Loss with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez 2024
    • Museum of Nebraska Art: Magic and Loss with Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez 2025
    • Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University: A Serious Man 2024
    • Gregory Allicar Museum of Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2024
    • Everson Museum of American Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2022
    • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art: Soundtracks for the Present Future 2021
    • 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
    • Magic and Loss
    • Deadpan
    • War Room
    • 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
  • PHOTOGRAPHS
    • Family Portrait
    • Chasid in the Woods
    • Dandelion
    • E G G S
    • Nipple Eyes
    • Untitled (Chasid)
    • Untitled (Chuck Close)
    • doody de deer
    • Cow Staring at You
    • Cow Profile
    • Tortoise
    • Fall Swastika in Cornish, NH
    • MOM
    • My Father with His Shirt Off
  • PERFORMANCE
    • The Talisman
    • Bitzalel Friedemann: Docent guided tour of Sheldon Museum of Art
    • Betsey Geffen: Docent guided tour of Sheldon Museum of Art
    • A Brief History of Performance Art
    • Betsey Geffen: Tour at Sarah Meltzer Gallery
    • Betsey Geffen
    • Felix, Flowers, Flags & Poems
    • Grapefruit Piece as Adenoid
  • VIDEO
    • One Hours Smile: 1990, 2005, 2015
    • The Grapefruit Piece
    • The Talisman
    • True Stories - Live!
    • Four Track Memory
    • Felix, Flowers, Flags & Poems
    • Grapefruit Piece (remastered)
    • Walking Backwards in the Woods While Air Guitaring Sgt. Peppers from Beginning to End
  • 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
    • Ten Letters
    • Coat Rack
    • Magic Rays
    • Growth Gouache
  • COMMISSION
    • Big Lake Park: 2014
  • WRITING
  • INTERVIEWS
  • CV
  • artist statement
  • links
  • contact
  • bibliography
  • catalogs
G-O-D
1999
Custom vinyl inflated letters, motors, PVC pipe
6’ x 6 ’x 1’

“G-O-D” is a kinetic sculpture made of three transparent, inflated letters that slowly revolve around themselves. Commenting on spirituality, this piece draws attention to the intangible, ephemeral qualities of a higher power. As the letters spin, they very rarely align to be legibly read, but for a brief moment they come together and the viewer catches a glimpse of its meaning. The cast shadows on the wall reference Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and the idea that our perception of the divine through sensation of the material world is limited and cannot possibly provide a complete understanding of God.


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