Tova Beck-Friedman | |
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Nationality | American |
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Purdue University Goddard College Tama Art University |
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Known for | Art, sculpture, documentary film |
Website |
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Tova Beck-Friedman is an American artist, sculptor, writer and filmmaker [1] [2] based in New York City. [3] Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Australia, Israel, Europe, and Japan. Her work is in the collection of Grounds For Sculpture, Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum, Sculpture Garden, the Shoah Film Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Beck-Friedman holds a BA in Fine Arts from Purdue University and an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1982 she pursued a graduate student research studies at the Tama University of Art in Tokyo.
Beck-Friedman's work has been exhibited and shown at The International Artists' Museum for the 50th Venice Biennale, New Jersey State Museum, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, Sculpture Biennale in Beersheba, Israel, The Newark Museum and Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland. Her artwork has been installed and is part of Grounds For Sculpture, the Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum and Sculpture Garden. [8] [9] [10]
Among her fellowships and awards are: Franconia Sculpture Park, MN; USA/ Jerom Artist Grant; Accessibility at Sumter, South Carolina; Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland; Gulgong Symposium, Australia; Environmental [11] Sculpture Symposium, MuJu, Korea; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Center for Visual Arts, Be'er Sheva, Israel; New Jersey State Museum at Drew University; International Biennial in Beersheba, Israel. [12]
Beck-Friedman's oeuvre ranges from sculpture to photographs to videos and documentaries. Her work is represented in major public collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, the Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, Newark Museum, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, Jersey City Museum, NJ, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL, and Český Krumlov Castle, Czech Republic. [13] [14]
In 2016, Beck-Friedman founded an online art portal called The Pythians, showcasing older women artists' work.
Year | Film | Description |
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2016 | Gaia Regards Her Children | A film made to a poem by Alicia Ostriker |
2015 | On the Other Side | A poetic musing on aging, based on a poem by Natalie H. Rogers |
2014 | Red Father [1] [16] [17] [18] | The story of Bernard Ades, a Communist Jewish lawyer who in the 1930s fought for civil rights at home and against fascism in Spain |
2011 | Medusa's Head [19] | A woman is slowly dancing in a columned underground cistern to the narration of Ovid's Metamorphoses |
2011 | Lot's Wife | An homage to the biblical Lot's wife |
2010 | Her World [19] | A poor beautiful woman infatuated with movie star glamor – a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe arrives in West Virginia on the eve of the Great Depression |
2008 | Don't Ask | A docu-poem on language and identity |
2007 | A portrait of The Artist as an old Woman [20] [21] | Three octogenarian women artists share their insights into the creative energy and vitality that is not hampered by age |
2005 | At the Altar of Her Memories | Through a mix of puppetry and storytelling Bracha Ghilai, who spent her adolescent years in concentration camps, unlocks chapters from her painful past |
2004 | Passages [19] | Filmed at the historic Lafayette cemetery in New Orleans, the video is set to investigate the psychology of memory |
2005 | Reflections | Fairy tail; parable; magic; myth; reflections; musing on the absurdities of social ideals |
2004 | Shadow Walk | Investigating the history and memory through dance movements |
2002 | Andromeda | The collaboration with dancer Dana Brewer-Plazinic, creating choreographed and improvised movement, responding to the Andromeda sculpture installation |
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Tova Beck-Friedman | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Purdue University Goddard College Tama Art University |
Occupations |
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Known for | Art, sculpture, documentary film |
Website |
tbfstudio |
Tova Beck-Friedman is an American artist, sculptor, writer and filmmaker [1] [2] based in New York City. [3] Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Australia, Israel, Europe, and Japan. Her work is in the collection of Grounds For Sculpture, Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum, Sculpture Garden, the Shoah Film Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Beck-Friedman holds a BA in Fine Arts from Purdue University and an MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1982 she pursued a graduate student research studies at the Tama University of Art in Tokyo.
Beck-Friedman's work has been exhibited and shown at The International Artists' Museum for the 50th Venice Biennale, New Jersey State Museum, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, Sculpture Biennale in Beersheba, Israel, The Newark Museum and Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland. Her artwork has been installed and is part of Grounds For Sculpture, the Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum and Sculpture Garden. [8] [9] [10]
Among her fellowships and awards are: Franconia Sculpture Park, MN; USA/ Jerom Artist Grant; Accessibility at Sumter, South Carolina; Boleslawiec International Symposium, Poland; Gulgong Symposium, Australia; Environmental [11] Sculpture Symposium, MuJu, Korea; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Center for Visual Arts, Be'er Sheva, Israel; New Jersey State Museum at Drew University; International Biennial in Beersheba, Israel. [12]
Beck-Friedman's oeuvre ranges from sculpture to photographs to videos and documentaries. Her work is represented in major public collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, the Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, Newark Museum, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, Jersey City Museum, NJ, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL, and Český Krumlov Castle, Czech Republic. [13] [14]
In 2016, Beck-Friedman founded an online art portal called The Pythians, showcasing older women artists' work.
Year | Film | Description |
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2016 | Gaia Regards Her Children | A film made to a poem by Alicia Ostriker |
2015 | On the Other Side | A poetic musing on aging, based on a poem by Natalie H. Rogers |
2014 | Red Father [1] [16] [17] [18] | The story of Bernard Ades, a Communist Jewish lawyer who in the 1930s fought for civil rights at home and against fascism in Spain |
2011 | Medusa's Head [19] | A woman is slowly dancing in a columned underground cistern to the narration of Ovid's Metamorphoses |
2011 | Lot's Wife | An homage to the biblical Lot's wife |
2010 | Her World [19] | A poor beautiful woman infatuated with movie star glamor – a Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe arrives in West Virginia on the eve of the Great Depression |
2008 | Don't Ask | A docu-poem on language and identity |
2007 | A portrait of The Artist as an old Woman [20] [21] | Three octogenarian women artists share their insights into the creative energy and vitality that is not hampered by age |
2005 | At the Altar of Her Memories | Through a mix of puppetry and storytelling Bracha Ghilai, who spent her adolescent years in concentration camps, unlocks chapters from her painful past |
2004 | Passages [19] | Filmed at the historic Lafayette cemetery in New Orleans, the video is set to investigate the psychology of memory |
2005 | Reflections | Fairy tail; parable; magic; myth; reflections; musing on the absurdities of social ideals |
2004 | Shadow Walk | Investigating the history and memory through dance movements |
2002 | Andromeda | The collaboration with dancer Dana Brewer-Plazinic, creating choreographed and improvised movement, responding to the Andromeda sculpture installation |
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