Stephen friedman gallery

Tom Friedman

Celebrated for his playful and exacting approach to art making, Tom Friedman embraces everyday life by looking afresh at familiar objects and their assigned function. 

Tom Friedman was born in 1965 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He lives and works in Massachusetts.

Fluctuating between the comical and conceptual, Friedman’s meticulously rendered drawings and sculptures recreate random elements from his daily life and surroundings. Confounding expectations through startling trompe l'oeil, Friedman’s works reveal his remarkable attention to detail and handicraft. What might first appear to be a simple, stable structure is, on closer inspection, intricately constructed from unexpected materials such as Styrofoam, flock, wire or even the artist’s own hair. 

Inhabiting the boundary between reality and illusion, Friedman’s playful works challenge everyday processes of perception and notions of artistic value. He explains, “Art, for me, is a context to slow the viewer’s experience from their every


Steve Friedman
Former Director of the National Economic Council

Stephen Friedman was Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (NEC). The NEC was established in 1993 within the Office of Policy Development and is part of the Executive Office of the President. It was created for the purpose of advising the President on matters related to U.S. and global economic policy. By Executive Order, the NEC has four principal functions: to coordinate policy-making for domestic and international economic issues, to coordinate economic policy advice for the President, to ensure that policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President's economic goals, and to monitor implementation of the President's economic policy agenda.

The purview of the NEC extends to policy matters affecting the various sectors of the nation's economy as well as the overall strength of the U.S. and global macro-economies. Therefore, the membership of the NEC comprises numerous department and agency heads within the administration, whose policy juris

Stephen J. Friedman (academic administrator)

US Securities and Exchange Commissioner

Stephen J. Friedman (born March 19, 1938) is the former commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and seventh president of Pace University from 2007 to 2017.[1][2] Prior to that, Friedman has served as dean of the Pace Law School,[3] and senior partner and co-chairman of Debevoise & Plimpton. On February 1, 2017, Friedman urged New York to increase student financial aid to both public and private universities.[4]

Education and career

In 1959, Friedman earned an AB from Princeton University'sWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[5] In 1962, he earned a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court.[6] Friedman was a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and resigned in 1981 at the end of hi

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