Amanda Friedman is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. We met for the first in person interview at her studio and talked about current and recent work, and her solo show Everyday Drawings and Pyramids at Grifter. We also talk about her studio check in forms, “tending the garden”, everyday drawings, the slippage of mark making, going towards color and beauty, making plays (which are also paintings), Helen Rides and beat poet Helen Adams, the last live performance of her play, witchy women and desire, singing, make your own art world as a way to avoid cynicism, working for the Rosemary Mayer estate, cult figures and counter culture, how different kinds of work and found objects leads into other work, light castles and bones, transformation, ceramics, glove paintings, making things that hold themselves, art as a mirror, figuring out what the art is, Paul Thek, Andrei Rublev, using rules as an anchor point, Leonora Carrington, and paintings as keepers of secrets.

https://amandabfriedman.com/

https://g-rift-er.com/
The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater
https://www.kenningeditions.com/shop/the-kenning-anthology-of-poets-theater-1945-1985/

Helen Adam readings/recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BC9rsdSdlw&t=4s

https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Adam.php

Current Rosemary Mayer exhibition http://www.gordonrobichaux.com/rosemary-mayer.html

A Great Wagon - Rumi
https://onbeing.org/poetry/a-great-wagon/

Amanda’s uncle, Kinky Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman

Leigh Ruple
http://www.leighruple.com/

Peter Doig
https://www.michaelwerner.com/exhibitions/peter-doig2/selected-works?view=slider

Paul Thek
https://www.frieze.com/article/paul-thek-2

Andrei Rublev
https://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev

Leonora Carrington article/show https://www.artforum.com/print/202104/chloe-wyma-on-the-tarot-of-leonora-carrington-85247 

https://www.gallerywendinorris.com/exhibitions-collection/leonora-carrington-the-story-of-the-last-egg