Rope and cast plaster with applied faux verdigris paint, ten vertical rope strands, each with eleven cast figures posed in various classical gestures, appears unsigned.

106 in. strand, each figure approximately 7 in.

Property of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sold to support art collections care

Matt Freedman was a sculptor, graphic artist, performer, writer and curator with a background in cartooning and anthropology.

Solo exhibition venues include Pierogi Gallery (Brooklyn), vertexList (Brooklyn), Studio 10 Gallery (Brooklyn), Valentine Gallery (Queens), Flipside (Brooklyn), FiveMyles (Brooklyn), and SculptureCenter (New York). Freedman has performed at PS1 MoMA (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen (New York), Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn Academy of Music at FiveMyles, Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), and Flux Factory (New York). Freedman has curated projects at SculptureCenter (New York), Long Island University Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, and PS1 MoMA (New York).

He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1991) and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant Fiction writing (2000) as well as the author of the graphic journal Relatively Indolent but Relentless (published by Seven Stories Press, 2014).

Scattered cracks, some areas of loss and separations; one figure with cracks and loss is detached but included.