Biografie von Kenneth Scott FRIEDMAN (1949)

Birth place: New London, CT

Addresses: San Diego, CA

Profession: Sculptor, instructor

Studied: Calif. Western Univ.; Shimer College; San Francisco State College, B.A. & M.A.; also special study with Dr. G. David Cahoon & Dr. Robert Smith.

Exhibited: Solos: Time, Space, Light & Forgetfullness, Galerie Vice Versand, fall 1971, Early Works, Starr King School, Berkeley, CA, 1971, The One Year One-Man Show, Oakland Mus., 1972, Ken Friedman & Friends in Process, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1972 & Work in Progress, Henry Gallery, Univ. Wash, Seattle, 1972; Armin Hundertmark/Edition Hundertmark, Blumenweg, Germany, 1970s.

Member: College Art Assn.; Aktual Czech Group (director, Aktual/USA, 1967; director, Ann. KTM, 1971-); Religious Arts Guild (editorial consultant, 1971-); Western Assn. Art Mus.; Soc. Aesthetic Res. (gen. editor publs.).

Work: Oakland (CA) Mus.; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; La Jolla (CA) Mus. Contemporary Art; Archiv Sohm, Markgröningen, Germany; Centro Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Commissions: Eingepacktes (wrapped sculpture), Galerie Vice Versand, Remscheid, Germany, 1969; Friedmanswerk, Edition Hundertmark, Berlin, Germany, 1970; GTM (with Barbara Smith & Greg Sweigert), San Francisco, 1970; Friedmansmuseum, Dr. Alexander Thomas, Münster, Germany, 1971; Collected Works, Mrs. Leonard Brown, Springfield, MA, 1972.

Comments: Preferred media: intermedia. Positions: director, Fluxus, exec. director, Fluxus West & editor, Fluxus West Publ., 1966-; program director & director gallery, de Benneville Pines, Angelus Oaks, CA, 1972-; curator contemporary art, Intersection, San Francisco, 1972-. Publications: author, The Stone Forest: An Existential Approach to Education, privately published, 1971; illustrator, Thomas Onetwo, Something Else Press, 1971; author, The Aesthetics, Beau Geste Press, 1972; author, Friedmanstijl,1973; plus many other papers & small booklets.Teaching: instructor, expanded art & educ., Exp. College, San Francisco State College, 1966-69; instructor, intermedia & expanded art, Free Univ. Berkeley, 1970-71; special lecturer art, Univ. Sask., Regina, 1972. Research: psychological & social implications & meanings of art & art activity; educational potential.