Dan Friedman’s career took off in the early 1970s when he received high-profile commissions from companies like Citibank, whose logo he redesigned. Friedman had studied modern typography in Germany and Switzerland, but commercial work soon left him feeling unfulfilled. He moved to New York in the late 70s and changed course, hanging out in the East Village with a radical crowd that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Tseng Kwong Chi. He started working with assemblage and furniture, moving from graphics into three dimensions. Friedman became increasingly political, using his oeuvre to address urgent topics such as the AIDS crisis and apartheid. He died of AIDS in 1995, age 49. Featuring 50 works, this is the first museum retrospective of Friedman’s work. —Elena Clavarino