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“Solitary Lotus” ©
Jon Friedman
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Name: Jon Friedman
Bio: My
first encounter with the work of Jon Friedman was in the pages of the Pastel
Journal, December 2010. Now and again one has the jolt and the joy of seeing
something unexpected, unanticipated, and frankly inexplicable in a medium with
which one had become comfortable, one saw as predictable – and then some
Friedman jumps out of the pastel box and shouts “Boo” – and don’t we all need
this experience to keep us keen and fresh and on our toes.
Jon Friedman
attended the Corcoran Museum School in 1968 to study printmaking; the following
year was spent in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture while taking
his BA in Philosophy at Princeton. In
1971 he graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art with an MFA in painting and
sculpture. He was immediately appointed Visiting Lecturer in Art in Connecticut
College until 1977, during which period he acted as Invited Lecturer in the
Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute. His resumé from then till now is too
long to rehearse – you may see it on his website, but you may take it that his
exhibitions, awards and representation in private and national collections are
numerous and prestigious. However, briefly, I can say that Friedman's work is
displayed in mural and sculpture form at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New
York; he was granted a Residency Grant at the Ossabaw Island Project in
Georgia; and he was a University Scholar for Princeton University. He has held
solo exhibitions in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Santa Monica,
California and his work is displayed in such prominent and diverse corporate collections as
American Telegraph & Telephone, the National Academy of Sciences in
Washington D.C., the American Broadcasting Company in New York, and Johnson
& Johnson Pharmaceuticals.
Medium: Pastel;
oil; sculpture.
Technique :
Jon Friedman uses all the tools at his disposal—everything from pastel and
Flashe paint to sandpaper and a spray bottle—to capture his creative vision.
C/f the Pastel Journal, December 2010 for more.
Subjects: (in
pastel) Nature; Landscape
Style: Representational
– hyperrealism.
Navigation: Links
remain available at side of page.
Gallery: Paintings;
Portraits (some pastels); Sculpture; Works on paper and Pastels.
Note: there are
sub-galleries in these categories; I am concerned only with the Pastel Gallery
in this blog.
Image View: Two pages of thumbnails
that may be enlarged, and scrolled by clicking on image on screen. Information in provided in column on left of screen.
Download is possible. Solitary Lotus is 48
x 66 ins., 700 x 506, 82 KB; Charcoal and pastel.
Demo/Blog: No
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