Acrylic Friends

Laurie Frick’s installations and drawings explore how art and technology can change our our understanding of our physical and social environment. Her new work, Acrylic Friends, is a stacked piece of 450 polished, dyed acrylic pieces in which her interpersonal connections take the form of sociological sculpture. The work evolved from lists she made of the most memorable people in her life, in which she described the relationship according to specific criteria. She began asking friends to make the same list, furnishing the dataset for the hand-collaged, visual interface of these People Connections. Acrylic Friends characterizes each friend as a colorful, translucent stack of personal interaction and influence, accumulated and characterized over time.