Martha Friedman at Wallspace

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Martha Friedman, 'Mechanical Disadvantage III,' steel, concrete, silicone rubber, pigment, 2012.
Martha Friedman, ‘Mechanical Disadvantage III,’ steel, concrete, silicone rubber, pigment, 2012.

You use tools to make art, but can you make art out of studio tools?  Martha Friedman gives it her best shot, transforming a rather impersonal object – the wedge – into mysteriously totemic towers punctuated with flaccid, pizza-paddle shapes in day-glo orange silicone rubber. (At Chelsea’s Wallspace Gallery through October 20th).