With Airy Mesh, Richard Friedberg Captures… Nature’s Might Oneonta Sculptors ‘Terrible Beauty’ Opens At Munson-Williams-Proctor By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As 2010 arrived, Richard Friedberg was feeling “dispirited, unhappy that we did not have a great chance of solving our environmental problems, our climate problems.” “I needed a change,” said Friedberg, who has a studio in a Harpersfield barn, halfway from Oneonta to Stamford. Then, on April 20, change arrived: BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded; 11 workers…
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RICHARD FRIEDBERG WORKS DEBUT Local Sculptor Bringing ‘Terrible Beauty’ To Public UTICA – “Terrible Beauty,” an exhibit of monumental sculptures by an Oneonta-area artist, Richard Friedberg, will open Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica. Developing a novel aluminum mesh as his raw material, Friedberg’s nine sculptures in the show are based on such catastrophes as BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and the Fukushima nuclear accident and resulting tsunami. MORE IN…