Juxtapoz Magazine – Sam Friedman Brings His Composite Paintings to Frieze Week in Los Angeles

There is a globe that I believe in visually, and it’s developed in how I use paint.” There is also a way that longtime Juxtapoz preferred, Sam Friedman, composes his paintings, the way he structures canvases together that feel disparate but build a tale. For years he has explored a relation in between abstraction and nature, using vivid and daring hues to mimick the elegance and virtually surreal energy of the organic world. But its also about paint and the act of painting as both of those a meditative and utilitarian act. 

For Frieze 7 days in Los Angles, Library Avenue Collective have introduced Friedman to LA for Composite Paintings, a new collection of works that are freshly interacting with each other. Friedman cheekily refers to his “Composite Paintings” as “the recomposition of the part things from the decomposition of the authentic composition.” And like nature, factors regrow and regenerate themselves each and every year, often in flux and changing with the situations and its as if Friedman has committed himself to mimicking both of those that phenomenon and his have inner phenomenon in the studio. —Evan Pricco