Opening Reception: Mirrored in Time

Fridman Gallery is honored to present Mirrored in Time, an exhibition examining relationships between external physical environments and internal mind-spaces.

Featured Artists:

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka

Naomi Lisiki

Will Maxen

Daniel Neumann

Foresight, the ability to recognize that events happen on a timeline, enabled us to dominate other species as predators. Yet, we are not well equipped to tell geological time – our foresight has not extended to appreciate distant origins or long-term futures. And, as we gradually ceased to fear our surroundings, we seem to have lost appreciation of the present moment. Spatial sound – the practice of attentive listening in an acoustical space – can center us in the present and help us look more attentively as well.

The featured artists including Will Maxen, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Naomi Lisiki, and Daniel Neumann use deep time as a medium in their practices. This exhibition is a space for contemplative listening and looking, a mirror to our inner world, as individuals and as a species.

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In the project space: Madeleine Skrzynecka

A World of Her Own

Madeleine's paintings are fragments of a world between memory and imagination. The women who inhabit it are occupying public settings, yet their presence feels quiet and private. Madeleine is interested in femininity in its most delicate sense: sensitivity, intimacy, softness, ritual, and the inner life beneath the visible. Her heroines belong to an imagined universe, moving through rooms, gardens, summer landscapes, and interiors that feel strangely familiar.

Their silhouettes, clothes, gestures, and surroundings are a language of their own. The monochromatic blue creates a certain distance, but also a sense of safety. Within it, the figures are dreamlike, as if they exist outside ordinary time.