Among the most celebrated recent works by Tom Friedman are the artist’s crushed aluminum foil roasting-pan figures, sculptural objects that blend classic modernist sculpture with a child’s playful constructions. In the first stages of creation, Friedman carves his figures in rudimentary Styrofoam, then covers them with crushed baking tins, like a skin overlaying the foam structure. Through a process of molding and lost wax casting, the figures are eventually converted into stainless steel while retaining the detail and imprint of the baking tins. Towering nearly thirty-three feet high, Looking Up, 2015, is among the largest and most spectacular of these works, a major new acquisition by The Contemporary Austin for the grounds of the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria in Austin, TX, exhibited for the first time in completion at this scale.