MATT FREEDMAN is an artist, writer and curator living in Queens,
New York. He graduated from Harvard College and the University of
Iowa. He teaches in the graduate fine arts and Visual Studies
programs at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and New
York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction writing. He
co-curated the Paper Sculpture show that began at SculptureCenter
in New York and toured nationally and the (B 19) exhibition at Long
Island University. Recent solo shows at Pierogi, FiveMyles,
Big&Small/Casual, Valentine and Studio 10 galleries in
Brooklyn. An exhibition based on this journal opened May 10, 2013,
at Studio 10 in Bushwick, Brooklyn at 56 Bogart Street.
Matt was a cartoonist for 12 years out of college--his strip "Free
Associates" was published in The Onion, The Chicago Reader, The
Philadelphia City Paper, and his writing has been published by
Cabot Magazine and The Pierogi Press.
"This is a staggering and beautiful book. It reminded me of the
impact of Maus—how an unexpected form suddenly breaks your heart
and takes an axe, as Kafka said, to that frozen sea inside us. In
all honesty, I found this book…impossible not to
read." —Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!
"Harrowing, hilarious, humbling, triumphant." —Lawrence
Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
"Freedman’s assignment is to record the unvarnished, gruesome, and
ultimately liberating details of his thirty-five day radiation and
chemotherapeutic calendar. And the details are truly
fascinating." —Graphic Medicine
"An amazing book…Matt Freedman manages to make his story come
alive, and that’s what every artist/writer/cartoonist is trying
for: a moment of focus and clarity that manages to convey personal
insight…Freedman’s intelligence and humor comes through so
clearly—[this book doesn’t] feel like a fictional [nor] filtered
experience…It worked for me." —Charles Burns, artist
"Relatively Indolent is a work of tremendous courage, talent and
zeal, that turns the most difficult experience life can offer into
a beautiful, evocative, and even humorous journal that anyone with
cancer or without can understand. It cements my faith that in
times of pain, not only is art the best answer, it's the only
answer." —Paul Hoffman, bestselling author of The Man Who
Loved Only Numbers
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