Drawing from op art and pop art as well as surrealism, his paintings and lithographs were intricately geometric and dreamlike, conjuring otherworldly skylines, town centers, buildings and temple-like interiors. His work sometimes called to mind one of his early influences, M.C. Escher, the Dutch printmaker known for trippy (and dorm-friendly) visual enigmas. Many of Mr. Friedeberg’s paintings and sculptures incorporated incongruous images, like dog heads or Mickey Mouse, or symbols drawn from the Aztecs and other cultures, the occult or kabbalah. Mr. Friedeberg was considered a leading light of the mid-20th-century Mexican surrealist movement, along with older European emigre artists...
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