Western Code

Western Code is Charley Friedman’s third solo exhibition with Gallery Diet. The artist, who is currently dividing his time between Lincoln, NE and Brooklyn, NY finds the commonalities amongst cultural, intellectual and religious divides through humor. His practice moves fluidly across media manifesting as large-scale public sculpture, photography, video and drawing. 

The themes in my new body of work reflect my preoccupations with how individuals, nations and cultures form and transmit ideas and values. How we perceive each other and ourselves and how we invent systems to categorize our own egocentric worldview.  The work is anchored in a particularly American or First World idiom: Pop, Minimal with a dash of Consumerism.