This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following is submitted by Zak Friedman, partner of the artist.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Israel, a student in the United States and Japan, Tova Beck-Friedman is working and living in New York. She is a sculptor who has been using a visual vocabulary that synthesizes 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, she places conscious emphasis on placement of figures in rhythmic groups, usually in landscape settings. Individual elements interact in dynamic rhythms with one another, with the site, and with the viewer, who in turn, becomes the link among the pieces.
Beck-Friedman has been widely exhibited including one person shows at: Monique Goldsrom Gallery, NYC; New Jersey State Museum; Bill Bace Gallery, NYC; the Newark Museum; Herzliya Museum in Israel; Michaelson & Orient Gallery, London, UK.
Her work is held in numerous public collections among which are: Herzliya Museum, Israel; Be'er Sheva City Hall, Israel; the Newark Museum; Arizona State University Museum; New Jersey State Museum; the Paterson Museum; Fukuoka Town Hall, Japan; Skidmore College, NY; William Paterson College, NJ; Schering-Plough Corporation; Morris College, NJ;
Information about the artist can be found at www.tbfstudio.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Mishkenot Haomanim, Hezeliya, Israel
Gallery Mani H., Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, Ny
Project Room At The Phoenix Gallery, New York, Ny
1999 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, Nj
1998 The Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Il
Visual Arts Gallery, College Of Morris, Randolph, Nj
1997 Bergen Museum Of Art, Paramus, Nj
1996 Lisa Parker Gallery, New York, Ny
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Nj (Catalogue)
1993 Bill Bace Gallery, New York, Ny
1992 Quietude Gallery, East Brunswick, Nj
Schering-Plough Gallery, Madison, Nj
1991 The Newark Museum, Nj (Catalogue)
Bill Bace Gallery, New York, Ny
1990 Herzliya Museum, Israel (Catalogue)
Visual Arts School Gallery, Beer Sheva, Israel
1989 Michaelson & Orient Gallery, London, Uk
1988 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, Ny
1985 Amos Eno Gallery, New York, Ny
1984 Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo American Cultural Center, Japan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Markers, The Artists Museum @ The Venice Biennale, Italy
Documenta Usa, Detroit, Mi
Photography, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, Ny
Art For The Community, Givataim Theatre, Israel
Earth/Line Land/Scape, The Gallery Of South Orange, NJ
Paper Pots 3 Benefit, Elder Gallery, New York, NY
Art Project/Akerstein Industries, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000 Art/Nature/Nurture Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI
1997 Ancient Emblems-Contemporary Signifiers, Jersey City Museum, NJ
Women Artists Of The Collection, New Jersey State Museum
Solo Esculturas Galleria De Arte Florida, Caracas, Venezuela
Boleslawiec 96, Galeria Sztuki, Jelenia Gora, Poland
Cesky Krumlov Cultural Foundation, Czech Republic
1996 A Womans Place, Manmouth Museum, NJ
Arts Annual, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1995 Internet Gallery Installation, Un Conference On Women, beijing,China
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1994 Fine Art Annual, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, AND TEACHING
2001 Artist In Residence, Mishkenot Haomanim, Hezeliya, Israel
1998 Sculptor In Residence, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN / Jerom Artist Grant
2002 Visiting Artist, International Ceramic Biennial, Beer Sheva, Israel
1996 Visiting Artist, Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland
1995 Master Artist, Clay/Sculpt Gulgong Symposium, Australia
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