macaroni necklace

source: decordovaorg

In her sculptures Brooklyn-based artist Martha Friedman depicts tricks and balancing acts, while arguing for the possible sexual connotation in everything. Referencing the history of art, from high modernist abstraction to minimalism to the Duchampian ready-made, Friedman is interested in locating the point at which common objects slip into abstraction and, even more so, eroticism. As a result, food, which is so deeply connected to the body, emerges as one of her subjects, as do quotidian objects like rubber bands and eggs in conglomerations that are beautiful, witty, and often set up visual and verbal double-entendres.
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source: artsprincetonedu

Friedman (b. Detroit, MI) lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2003. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2010); DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (2010); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL (2010); Wallspace, New York, NY (2012, 2009, 2007). Select group exhibitions include Frieze New York Sculpture Park, curated by Tom Eccles, New York, NY (forthcoming artist commission 2013), Flesh and Blood, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Isreal (2013), Buy My Bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2012), Flights From Wonder, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (2012); New York Minute—organized by Kathy Grayson, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2009); The Station—curated by Nate Lowman and Shamim M. Momim, Miami, FL (2008); Bunch, Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2007).