Dan Friedman’s Why Shouldn’t I Have Enjoyable All Day? marks the primary gallery presentation of the late artist’s work since 1994. Staged in Decrease Manhattan’s Superhouse, the exhibition arrives in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Friedman’s passing in 1995 and is an immersive imagining of the artist’s Washington Sq. Park residence.
Within the late Seventies, Friedman remodeled his one-bedroom residence into what he known as “a dwelling sketchbook” for his artwork, utilizing each floor as a canvas. “I created an excessive caricature of the attractive fashionable American house to convey into query our notion of what’s a phenomenal fashionable American house,” he acknowledged on the time. The set up emulates the identical vitality of the pivotal Decrease East Aspect artist’s residence as documented in his influential 1994 work Radical Modernism.
“I started to reside a double life—out at night time, assembly non-designers, artists,” Friedman recalled on the outset of the Nineteen Eighties. “I noticed I used to be having extra enjoyable working at night time on this different world, this different aspect of New York Metropolis. I believed, ‘Why shouldn’t I’ve enjoyable all day?’”
Works featured within the exhibition embody Friedman’s first folding display screen – the spray-painted Fundamental Display screen (1981) – the grass-skirted Wicky Wacky Desk (1981) and A Fallen Sky in a Regal Panorama (1985).
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Superhouse
120 Walker Avenue, 6R
New York, NY 10013
February 6, 2025 – March 22, 2025
Tuesday – Saturday, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
