Densely accumulated lines dominate the artist’s drawings; a graphic language developed over the past decade that has since informed new experiments in photography and sculpture. Implicit to her extended labors has been an attempt to suspend time, to hold at bay the “seepage of fatal time, of entropy into each and every living form.”* Thusly, the persistence of the line in Fried’s work has succinctly addressed temporal chronology and the act of drawing itself. Her new body of work foregrounds a parallel concern with collective and personal histories.
Zipora Fried studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Recent exhibitions include Greater New York at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2010); Total Recall, at Public Art Fund, Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY (2010); Trust Me. Be Careful. at On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2009); Text at Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA (2009); Creative Migration at The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (May 2009). Fried’s work is represented in a number of museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. Fried is also the recipient of numerous awards for her experimental films, which have been featured in festivals worldwide.
Shown: "I.M.Z. #1," 2011 (self portrait), Wool stitching on black and white c-print, 30 by 40 inches
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