Terri Friedman

1) ENOUGH, 86” x 72”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers, 2021. $32,000

2) You Don’t Get to Know, 82” x 72”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers 2021, $25,000

3) I Prefer Nonfiction, 86” x 78”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers 2021. $32,000

4) IN/HALE/EX, 130” x 75”, cotton, wool, acrylic, chenille, metallic fibers, 2019. $40,000

5) AWE/FUL , 45” x 64”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic fibers, 2018. $12,000

6) Stay Astonished, 62" x 67”, wool, cotton, acyrlic, metallic fibers, 2018. $18,000

7) Green Placebo, 74” x 41”, wool, jute, hemp, acrylic, stained glass, 2019. $15,000

8) REPAIR, approx: 48” x 36”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers, 2021. $6000

9) NO, approx: 72” x 40”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers , 2020, $10,000

10) 6 FT, 72” x 72”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers, 2020. $18,000

11) ‘2020’, approx: 62” x 36”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers , 2020. $6000

12) EXHALE, approx: 42” x 36”, wool, acrylic, cotton, metallic, chenille, fibers, 2021. $6000

Responding to global and national uncertainty, Terri Friedman’s work documents the climate of anxiety and instability with fiber. How do we live with heartbreak and gratitude at the same time? Dread and Hope? For Friedman it’s all about neuroplasticity. The brain, which we thought for centuries was inflexible and unchanging, unable to create new neural pathways after childhood or trauma, is actually able to grow new pathways. Even gratitude practiced over time can rewire the brain. Brain Science, Neuroplasticity, as well as Epigenetics (gene expression is affected by environment) are all growing fields that impact her life and work.

Friedman is interested in the awkward, uncertain, chromatic, complicated, imperfect, theatrical, and ornate because it mirrors the unhinged world we live in and the vulnerable human experience. Her work is an attempt to make senseof personal and world events through color, abstraction, and words. Her weavings are somatic posters of urgency.

She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family and is an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts.