BLM
Big Red Riding Hood
Baby Face
Dwora Fried
Artist Statement
Dwora Fried is an assemblage artist creating mixed media tableaux in wooden boxes. She populates them with miniature vintage furniture, dolls, toys and fabrics from the 50s, adding photographs, plastic, wood, metal and paint. Her small rooms evoke what it was like to grow up as an outsider in postwar Vienna: being Jewish, lesbian and a child of Holocaust survivors, she learned to see everything through the prism of loss, danger and secrecy. “I inherited a sense of isolation, displacement and an appreciation for the surreal.”
She had solo shows in London, England, Venice, Italy at the Museo Ebraico , Vienna, Austria and California.
Her art is in the permanent collection of Vienna’s MUSA Museum.
Fried has exhibited in multiple group shows at Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association, bG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Chicago’s Elmhurst Art Museum, San Francisco’s Arc Gallery and Orange County Center for the Arts. Most recently she showed at Fullerton College Art Gallery, Castelli Art, Sola Contemporary and at Quotidian -a Jill Moniz Project.