Fridman Gallery

You won’t find big market gestures or overt political provocations here. Instead, the work centers on emotional inheritance, ancestral memory, and forms of longing that unfold quietly.

Upstairs, artists with African roots or diasporic identities often work through strategies of survival and continuity. Hand-sewn tapestries wrap figures in ancestral materials. Paintings push beyond the frame, with fabric spilling onto the floor, as if resisting the limits imposed on them.

Experiments move from ambient glitch and light-reactive feedback to whispers that accumulate into something seismic. Birdsong meets subway tremors; synthetic chorales hover in the air. Listening can feel like being inside a generative dream.

Ilya Fridman, a lawyer, creative agency veteran, and advisor to new media startups, founded Fridman in 2013. In 2021, he opened a second space in Beacon, New York, for bigger exhibitions and outdoor performances. In 2024, he founded New Ear, Inc. and The New Ear Festival in 2024 to celebrate artists pushing sonic boundaries.