Arts Interview: Scientist, Philosopher, Artist and Performer Steven Friedman

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Arts Interview: In-Depth Conversation with Steven Friedman

This week as her special guest from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing scientist, philosopher, artist and performer Steven Friedman. Excelling in academics from an early age, Steven’s contributions to molecular biology and medicine range from developing methods to work out the structure of viruses to conceiving smart chemotherapeutics against cancer. Steven Friedman’s writings include philosophy, poetry, and plays; his art, ranging from representational pastels to acrylic under acrylic poles, has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has entered major private collections around the world. A prominent contemporary intellectual, Richard T. Murphy, has written that Steven Friedman is “the only person I have ever known who I am sure is a genius, someone whom one could pair with Einstein and not sound silly.”

As a young man, Steven Friedman enrolled in Harvard, majoring in philosophy and graduating cum laude in General Studies. He was then accepted into the PhD program in molecular biology at UCLA under a grant from the National Cancer Institute and then into UCLA's School of Medicine. Steven’s writings include over 200 works of philosophy; six collections of lyric poetry; the play, A Passion of the Mind (1980); and the philosophical narrative poem, The Books of Joshua (2008). His output has also included such unconventional forms as the beachbook T Lite Book by the Sea in 5000 tealights next to Santa Monica Pier in 2009 and the skybook, Proving God in Worlds from Even to Odd, over Huntington Beach, California, in 2010. Steven’s one-man show, Phalaris’s Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World is a personal and poetic narrative addressing philosophy, art, and science. The show was described by The New Yorker as a ‘truly distinctive piece of theatre’ and ran at The Beckett Theater at Theater Row, NYC, from December 12, 2015 to January 16, 2016. As a fine artist, Steven Friedman has been represented at Robert Berman Gallery at Bergamot Station Arts Center in Los Angeles since 1999. 

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