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The Return of the Agrarian Society
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Which Hunt
Maze-like environment for participants dealing with frustration and anger. (Foley 1980: 144)
Synchromatic Baseball
Howard Fried's Synchromatic Baseball was performed one night in 1971 on a San Francisco rooftop. Fried selected the Dommy and Indo teams from among his friends and acquaintances according to whether they assumed dominant or "indominant" roles in…
40 Winks
On December 10, 1971 I staged a piece called 40 Winks for a show of free live performance at the Berkeley Museum. The piece had two parts. The first was a long involved message which was posed as a riddle and delivered by me. It began as I destroyed…
ALLMYDIRTYBLUECLOTHES
Fried arranged the clothes on the floor and marked the symbols on the wall in a carefully reasoned sequence […] In summing up his description of the work “Allmydirtyblueclothes” Howard Fried also stated:…
Long John Servil vs. Long John Silver
Fried, assisted by crutches, wove his way through the gridded streets of San Francisco from sunset to sunrise as the passive yet happy-go-lucky Long John Silver; then, from sunrise to sunset he portrayed the more willful Long John Servil, carrying a…
Exhibition:The Eighties
In response to this new zeitgeist, Berkeley Art Museum curators Brenda Richardson and Susan Rannells presented The Eighties in 1970, soon after the museum moved into its new building. Richardson and Rannells asked a group of artists to address in…
Exhibition: Young Bay Area Sculptors
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Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, John Woodall, Stan Askew, Richard Berger, John C Fernie, Robert Kinmont, Karen Kline, Phil Pasquini, Elliot Ross, Mike Stevens, Gigi Vandernoot.
Exhibition: Performances by Six Artists
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Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, Jim Melchert, Bill Morrison, Tyrus Gerlach, Marc Thorpe, William Wiley.
Exhibition: 16 Rose Street
A building in San Francisco leased by Reese Palley Gallery and given over as studio space to artists such as Sam Richardson, Terry Fox, James Pennuto, Howard Fried, Barney Bailey, and Alex Lambie (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 54)
Reese Palley’s…