Inside and Outside: An Essay on Leslie Friedman’s Go Home by Deborah Krieger

Inside and Outside An essay on Leslie Friedman’s Go Home By Deborah Krieger What does it mean to feel at home? For home to be a place that doesn’t seem to particularly want you? For home to be transitory and impermanent? To be an outsider? I ponder these questions as I meet Leslie Friedman for … Continue reading

The Untitled-ness of Daniel Petraitis’s Tondo

The Untitled plaster-cast mattress will transform from sun to moon as NAPOLEON closes for today.  Come see this beautiful work of Daniel Petraitis, curated by our Napoleon founder and member Leslie Friedman, rise and set all throughout March.  We’ll be open from 2-6pm Sat & Sun and by appointment.

Leslie Friedman on WHYY – “TASTIER”

Leslie Friedman is on the radio! Peter Crimmins from Philadelphia’s NPR station stopped by Tastier, Leslie Friedman’s exhibition currently on view at Space 1026, to talk about diet sodas and the male perspective. In particular, the WHYY team was interested in making a connection between the show and a recent study released by Purdue University that shows sugar … Continue reading

Leslie Friedman: Urban POP

Napoleon member, Leslie Friedman, just won’t quit! Showing again, this time at the Main Line Art Center for Urban Pop! Urban Pop: Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition Date: Mar 20, 2013 – Apr 12, 2013 Time: Artist Talk: Fri., March 22, 5:30-6:30 pm & Reception: 6:30-8:30 pm Opening Reception: Fri., March 22, 5:30-8:30 pm (Talk & … Continue reading

NAPOLEON Member, Leslie Friedman’s “Fun Guys” in Providence, RI

Providence, Rhode Island is the birthplace of Leslie Friedman and the location of her next solo show. Fun Guys is an exhibition of modular, stackable sculptural pieces that reference the positive and negative stereotype of the Jewish people made of screenprinted tiles wrapped around wooden armatures. Though geometric, graphic, and colorful, this undulating wall sculpture … Continue reading

She’s On A Roll! Philadelphia Inquirer Covers Leslie Friedman and others @ DCCA’s Fragile Boundaries Exhibition

Get this girl a lottery ticket! NAPOLEON’s own Leslie Friedman is on a roll! With big news coming all summer, here is another cherry to top that summer sundae. Found in this weekend’s Philadelphia Inquirer’s Arts & Entertainment section, an article “Galleries: Shows are a good reason for a short trip to Delaware”, reviewing the … Continue reading

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