Tova Beck-Friedman

Education: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, B.F.A. Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont M.F.A./Post-Graduate: Tama University of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Exhibitions: Art/Nature/Nurture, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI One-person exhibition, The Mitchell Museum Mt. Vernon, IL Ancient Emblems-Contemporary signifiers, Jersey City Museum, NJ

Selected Collections: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Beit Ha'ribua Hakachoi, Rosh Ha'ain, Israel Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Selected Awards: International Sculpture Biennial, Be'er Sheva, Israel Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland Clay/Sculp Gulgong Symposium, Australia

Tova Beck-Friedman

"Contemplation Pit"
2'8"x15'x16'
Masonry & Earth
1998

Artist Statement:

"As a sculptor, I have been using visual vocabulary that synthesized figurative imagery--both archaeological and architectural--resulting in primordial forms of figural and abstract. For the most part the materials were humble--clay, paper, and concrete. Interested in the psychology of space, I placed conscious emphasis on placement of figures (segments) in rhythmic groups, usually in landscape settings. Individuals elements interact in dynamic rhythms with one another, with the site, and with the viewer, who, in turn, becomes the link among the pieces."