Tova Beck-Friedman Explained

Tova Beck-Friedman
Birth Place:Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality:American
Education:Purdue University
Goddard College
Tama Art University
Occupation:
  • Artist
  • Sculptor
  • Film director
  • Film producer
  • Film editor
  • Cinematographer
  • Editor
Known For:Art, sculpture, documentary film

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]

Early life and education

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.

Career

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.

Notable works

Installations

Exhibitions

Filmography

YearFilmDescription
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[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 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 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[19] [20] 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[21] 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

Awards/recognition

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Botz. Dan La. Red Father Seen Through the Eyes of His Daughter. New Politics. June 24, 2014.
  2. News: Stone. Amy. A Daughter's Take on Her Red Father. Lilith. January 7, 2015.
  3. News: Rovner. Ruth. Sculpture parks and gardens: A delight for travelers. Delaware County Daily Times. August 2, 2015.
  4. News: G. Collins. Jane. 10 installation artists involve, celebrate community. The Item. October 1, 2003.
  5. News: Zimmer. William. ART REVIEW; Themes Are Universal in Artworks By Women. New York Times. April 28, 2002.
  6. Web site: Tova Beck-Friedman. Shoah Film Collection. January 30, 2017.
  7. News: SCHWABSKY. BARRY. Sculpture With an Aura of Ritual and Myth. NY Times. August 3, 1997.
  8. http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/Artist/Tova-Beck-Friedman Grounds for Sculpture
  9. Web site: Memory Imprints: A Sculptural Installation by Tova Beck-Friedman. Yumuseum.org. Yeshiva University Museum. June 12, 2005.
  10. Web site: Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities. Cwah.rutgers.edu. January 30, 2017.
  11. News: Sheffield. Margaret. Rhythme and metaphor: Tova Beck-Friedman. January 18, 2017. Sculpture.
  12. Review of exhibitions. Art in America. October 1993. New York City.
  13. News: SCULPTOR TOVA BECK-FRIEDMAN EXPLORES PRIMAL IMAGES IN ONE-PERSON SHOW. William Paterson University. March 2, 1999. Wayne, New Jersey.
  14. Web site: Tova Beck-Friedman, USA. The World's Women On-Line. January 30, 2017.
  15. News: Schwabasky. Barry. ART;Indoors and Outdoors, Sculpture in Bloom. New York Times. May 26, 1996.
  16. News: Laurier. Joanne. Entre Nos (Between US) and Red Father: Aspects of US life and history. World Socialist Web Site. June 23, 2014.
  17. Web site: Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archive 2014 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Louis Proyect. October 1, 2014.
  18. Web site: Red Father: Directed by Tova Beck-Friedman at Soho Film Fest 5/16. New York Women in Film & Television. January 23, 2017.
  19. Calik. Gulsen. At the Altar of Her Memories, Directed by Tova Beck-Friedman. NYArts. May–June 2006. 11. 5/6.
  20. Cohen. Mark Daniel. The Redemption of Innocence: Tova Beck-Friedman's "At the Altar of Her Memories". All About Jewish Theatre.
  21. Web site: Tova Beck-Friedman's Filmography. IMDb. January 30, 2017.

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