Nemeth Art Center Artist Reception – Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez and Charley Friedman

Celebrate the work of Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez and Charley Friedman at a special reception honoring their latest collections. Enjoy an evening of art, conversation, and refreshments as the artists share insights into their creative process and inspiration.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American interdisciplinary artist. She grew up in Colombia, the child of a Colombian and a U.S. citizen, and migrated to the U.S. as an adult. Her art mines the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated, yet feeling a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez’s work is included in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, The Nerman Museum of Art, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Blue Star Contemporary, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, La Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, The Sheldon Museum of Art, The Joslyn Art Museum, The Portland Museum; El Museo del Barrio and Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Charley Friedman is sculptor, photographer, performance, video artist whose main material, and medium, is humor. Humor allows ideas to take root in the body, and has been, he writes,  “a useful tool verbally and aesthetically, from the lowly to the holy . . . to make sense of the absurd world we live in, and [is also] deeply rooted in Jewish history.”  Exploring the ways that images and objects take on value–on a continuum from the sacred to the disposable–Friedman’s work questions the ways in which society agrees to assign meaning and value to symbols. His deployment of humor and absurdity magnifies cultural vulnerabilities and prejudices, revealing individuals’ humanity, and ultimately asks us to think about how we all internalize and filter the outside world–whether through magical thinking, institutionalized religion, or consumer culture. Friedman has shown nationally and internationally, notably at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; MOMA PS1, NY; Everson Museum of Art, NY; Art Omi, NY, and the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, and is included in many museum and private collections, including the Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum, New York Public Library, and the Karen and Robert Duncan collection in Lincoln, NE.