Dwora Fried

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.”