.

Looking Up – by Tom Friedman

Temporary Exhibit: September 21, 2016 through September 30, 2017.

33-foot tall / Stainless Steel

Location: 48th South Lakefront / East of Lake Shore Drive.

Brought by CPD and DCASE

Courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery

.

 

.

 

.

Before Chicago, it was installed in New York City, at the intersection of Park Avenue and 53rd Street. In NYC, placed among the skyscrapers, it looked like a person gazing or is perhaps lost in the midst of the high rise skyscrapers. But in Chicago, it is placed in an open space along the lake. Here it assumes a very different character. It looks like a person is in a meditative state, gazing to the sky with open hands, and getting nourished from the energy that the surrounding nature provides.
Even I laid down on the grass, stared at open sky and soaked in energy from nature!

Even I laid down on the grass, stared at open sky and soaked in enery from nature!

.

 

.

 

.

Tom Friedman was born 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri. He has strong Chicago ties. He received his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. So it’s like home coming for the artist.

.

 

 

.

 

 

.

 

 

.

 

 

.