Education
1991-92 Computer Graphics
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
1987 Masters of Fine Art Printmaking
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1983 Bachelors of Fine Art Printmaking
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1978 East Lansing Arts Workshop
Studied Serigraphy, East Lansing, MI
1976-78 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Professional Experience
1992-2009 Computer Aided Design(CAD) Mechanical Designer
1992 Instructor of Art Oregon School of Arts & Crafts,
Portland, OR. - Taught Papermaking
1990-91 Instructor of Art Pacific Northwest College of Art
Extension Program, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
Taught Relief Printmaking
1991 Workshop ‘Papermaking: Pulp Painting/Stencil
Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, OR.
1988-91 Instructor of Art Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.
Classes taught: Etching, Lithography,
Silkscreen, Woodcut,
Monoprint, Painting, Drawing, Basic Design.
In charge of print studio management.
1989-91 Adjunct Faculty Mt. Hood Comm. College, Troutdale, OR
Taught Silkscreen & Drawing
1987 Adjunct Faculty University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Taught Silkscreen & Monoprint.
1986-87 Graduate Teaching Fellowship
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Taught and managed printmaking facilities.
1984-86 Graphic Designer Center on Human Development,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Graphic Designer and paste-up for publications.
Exhibitions
1996 Prints! The Northwest Print Council
Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
Northwest Print Collective
Northwest Print Council Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Society of American Graphic Artists New York, NY
Fairbanks Art Association Fairbanks, AK
1994 Drawings and Prints Comus Gallery, Portland, OR
1993 Narratives group show, Comus Gallery, Portland, OR
Northwest Print Council Exhibit Pierce College, Steilacom, WA
1992 Northwest Print Council 10th Anniversary Exhibit
Traveling
exhibit: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR,
University of
Hawaii, Manoa, HI, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID
McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition
Abercrombie
Gallery,McNeese State Univ,, Lake Charles, LA.
The Prints and the Paper - International Print '92
San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.
Artists
Joining in Celebration of Rose Festival '92
Invitational, Galleria, Portland, OR.
20 Oregon Printmakers Heathman Hotel, Portland, OR.
Prints By 20 Oregon Artists
Maveety Gallery - Shalishan, Lincoln City, OR.
1991 Max Michigan Awakes and Other Stories
One-person show, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR.
Prints and Handmade Paper One-person show,
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR.
Relief Prints
Northwest Print Council, Haynes Fine Arts Gallery,
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Celebration of the Arts in Oregon/'91
State Capitol, Salem, OR.
Mentors. Magicians, and Mythmakers
Invitational group exhibit,
Boise State University Gallery of Art, Boise, ID.
5th Parkside National Small Prints Exhibit
Juried, Communication Arts Gallery,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI.
Mt. Hood Community College Faculty Exhibit
Visual Arts Gallery, Gresham, OR.
1990 14th Harper College National Print & Drawing Exhibition
Harper
College, Palatine, IL. Travels to Western Illinois
University,
Macomb, IL., and NE Illinois University, Chicago, IL.
Grabadores Norteanericanos
Northwest Print Council's traveling exhibition
Santa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina.
What a Relief! Juried Relief Print Exhibit,
Fairbanks Art Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Pacific Prints 1990
5th Biennial Print Competition & Exhibition,
Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA.
Cal Print 90 Los Angeles Printmaking Society Annual
Membership Exhibit,Weingart Gallery,
Occidental
College, Los Angeles, CA.
All Oregon Art Annual
Juried exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Salem, OR.
Northwest Regional Print Biennial Juried
traveling exhibit to Bush
Barn Gallery, Salem, OR.,Central Washington
Museum of Art, Wenatchee, WA.
Mt. Hood Community College Faculty Exhibit
Visual Arts Gallery, Gresham, OR.
Four Lithographs by Friedman
Augen Gallery, Portland, OR.
Endings and Beginnings Art Department Faculty
Exhibit,
Paasche Gallery,
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.
1989 16th Juried Exhibition & Invitational Print Show
The Print Club of Albany,
Town of Colonie Library, Albany, NY.
Northwest Print Council's All Member Show
Scheider Museum, Ashland, OR.
Augen Gallery Group Show
Augen Gallery, Portland, OR.
Northwest Regional Print Biennial
Juried - Littman Gallery, Portland State University,
Portland, OR. Travels to The Rogue Gallery,
Medford,
OR.
All Oregon Art Annual Juried- State Fair Grounds, Salem, OR.
1st Annual Northwest Print Competition
Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR.
Invitational Printmakers Art Exhibit Visual Arts Gallery.
Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR.
101 Prints Benefit Exhibition, Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR.
Mt. Hood Community College Faculty Exhibit Gresham, OR.
Lewis & Clark College Faculty Exhibit Portland, OR.
Los Angeles Printmaking Society Membership Exhibit
Brand Libr. Galleries, Glendale, CA.
Works on Paper from the 1987 Oregon Biennial
Pinckey Center for the Arts,
Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR.
Hoke College Center,
Eastern Oregon State College,
LaGrande, OR.
1988 2nd International Biennial Print Exhibition
Somerstown Gallery, Somers, NY.
Oregon 2-D A. N. Bush Gallery, Salem, OR.
Small Format Prints From the U.S. Argentina Traveling Exhibit,
Lincoln Library, Buenos Aires, and others, Argentina.
Oregon Biennial 1987 Traveling Exhibit
Coos
Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR;
Scheider Art Museum, Ashland,OR;
State Capital Building, Salem,OR;
Lane Com. College,
Eugene,OR.
Animal Show New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR.
1987 Oregon Biennial Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR.
New Blood Three-person exhibit,
New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR.
Eugene Comes to Portland
Exchange show, North West Artists Workshop,
Portland, OR.
All Oregon Art Annual Juried Exhibit,
State Fair Grounds, Salem, OR.
Season Opener New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR.
Mayor's Art Show Hult Center for the Performing Arts,
Eugene, OR.
University of Oregon Faculty Show
141
Gallery,University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Oregon 2-D A. N. Bush Gallery, Salem, OR.
Aaron R. Friedman One-person exhibit
Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR.
Masters of Fine Art Exhibit University of Oregon Museum of Art,
Eugene, OR.
Monoprints One-person Exhibit, 141 Gallery,
University of Oregon,Eugene, OR.
Forbidden New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR.
1986 Pam Baker & Aaron R. Friedman Two-person Exhibit,
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR.
Aaron R. Friedman & Eleanor Rycraft Two-person Exhibit,
Benton County Historical Museum, Philomath, OR.
Monoprints One Person Exhibit,
Seal Rock Gallery, Seal Rock, OR.
Graduate Student Exhibit 141 Gallery,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
National Print Exchange Traveling Exhibit
Universities of Buffalo,Nebraska, Oregon, Washington
2nd Annual Cow Show 141 Gallery,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Wielded Birthday Syndrome One-person Exhibit,
141 Gallery, Eugene, OR.
1985 Graduate Student Exhibit 141 Gallery,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Two Artists Creative Arts Guild Gallery, Albany, OR.
1984 Graduate Student Exhibit 141 Gallery,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Kalamazoo Area Show
Kalamazoo Art Institute, Kalamazoo, MI.
1983 The Holiday Collection
The Light Tight Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI.
Emerging Artists The Light Tight Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI.
Junk Dreams One-person Exhibit, School of Art,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Women's Image Now 9th Annual Exhibit
Cochise Art Center, Bisbee, AZ.
1982 Foam Dreams One-person exhibit of kinetic sculpture,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Airzona Outdoor inflatable sculpture show, Sedona, AZ.
Dimensions '82 Arizona Artists Guild juried show,
Westside Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
Celebrate Youth invitational exhibit,
Phoenix Civic Center, Phoenix, AZ.
Women's Image Now Small Exhibition Series
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Publications
1991 "In Galleries: Heat Wave" In Town, Eugene, OR,
reproduction, Spring 1991, p. 26.
"Jacobs Gallery to Show Printmaker's Work"
The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR, May 17, 1991,
p. 6d, reproduction p. 1d.
"Artists Create Their Own Magic"
Idaho Press Tribune, Boise, ID, Feb. 10, 1991.
1990 Northwest Print Council Brochure
Portland, OR, reproduction.
1989 "September First Thursday Lineup" The Oregonian,
Portland, OR, September 6, 1988, p. D8,
reproduction.
1988 "New Members" A. P. Newsletter,
Northwest Print Council, Portland, OR, Fall
188, p. 4.
2nd International Biennial Print Exhibition
catalogue reproduction, p. 14.
1987 Oregon Biennial 1987 catalogue reproduction, p. 8.
"Gallery to Feature 'New Blood'"
Register-Guard, Eugene, OR, October 16, 1987.
"Exhibit Challenges Ideas on Art"
E. Brinton, What's Happening, Eugene, OR.
1986 "Show Pairs Rycraft's Ceramics, Paintings by Eugene Artist"
Corvallis Gazette-Times,
Corvallis, OR, September 26, 1986.
1983 "Different Media Harmonizes Well at the Light Tight Gallery"
S. B. Siegel,Kalamazoo News,
Kalamazoo, MI, August 12-18, p. 4.
1982 "Student to Show 'Sudsy' Sculpture" B. Eckenrode,
State Press,Tempe, AZ, April 16,1982, p.10.
Awards and Commissions
1991 Oregon Arts Commission with the
Oregon Department of Corrections
Commission of an edition of prints for
Correctional Facilities.
Celebration of the Arts/'91 State Capitol, Salem, OR. 2nd Prize.
5th Parkside National Small Prints Exhibit Daniel Smith Award,
Communication Arts Gallery
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha,
WI.
1990 All Oregon Art Annual
Merit Award, State Fair Grounds, Salem, OR.
1986 Graduate Teaching Fellowship
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
1982 Dimensions '82 Honorable Mention,
West Side Gallery, Phoenix, AZ.
