Passing Through challenges one of the most persistent binaries of our time: the divide between public and private space. Visual Artist Naomi Friedman interrogates how trans bodies, experiences, and rhythms disrupt these categories, revealing their fragility and the violence required to maintain them. With collage and paintings, Friedman insists on the permeability of cultural categories and the instability of the narratives that sustain them.
We will discuss figure and setting in the works, and what components might complicate/disrupt those boundaries, as well as other questions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Naomi Friedman, non-binary, is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who graduated Cum Laude from Vassar College in 2022 andl co-founded the Boyz With Apple Artist Collective LLC,https://www.boyzwithapple.com/about-the-boyz Recent exhibitions include the Cannes Contemporary Art Biennale, Art Basel Switzerland and a solo exhibition in Madrid. Friedman teaches early-childhood art classes in Brooklyn.
ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
Stephen Friedman, PhD, is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute where he is a Supervisor of Psychotherapy and teaches a seminar on the clinical implications of the Interpersonal perspective, race, diversity and otherness in clinical work. He has a private practice in New York City.
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Frances V. Dillon, MSW, and Eric Dammann, PhD, Co-Directors, Artist Study Group