Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show)
Exhibition Dates: Friday, Nov 18, 2016 – Sun, Jan 8, 2017
(cake + cava every Thursday during exhibition)
Opening reception: Friday, Nov 18, 6-8pm
Tomory Dodge, Monolith, 2016
Gina Beavers, Trudy Benson, Will Cotton, Tomory Dodge, Loius Fratino, Tom Friedman, David Kaihoi, Sadie Laska, Dominic Mangila, Isaac Mann, Lari Pittman, Ben Schonzeit, Chris Taylor, Richard Tuttle, Matthew Wong – and Dalton School’s Wayne Thiebaud student project.
A candle keeps us company ...and turns cake into an event.
For our second exhibition, 1969 presents Tom Friedman (+ The Birthday Show) featuring representational paintings and sculptures of cake + cakey abstract paintings + a commissioned window installation + artworks any birthday boy would covet. A focal point of the group exhibition is a new light work by Tom Friedman. The 10-minute projection features a lone candle in slow, constant burn, lighting every artwork in the exhibition. Never shrinking down in size, looping within its own image, the candle maintains a steady presence exhibited in broad daylight. It is a poetic work about consciousness and presence, a reminder that not every flame measures time passing or goes to extinguish. Every day is your birthday.