Fridman Gallery

Soar, human, soar! These are the words that come to mind when we’re looking at art upstairs and listening to experiments in sound downstairs.

You won’t find big market gestures or overt political provocations in the art shown here. There's something more intimate bubbling up: personal expression, longing, memory, emotion. We’ve seen fabric in the paintings spill beyond the frame onto the floor, like it's trying to reach further than the parameters it's been assigned.

If the fine art we see here makes our soul skip, the sounds we hear descend into new auditory depths. One night, you’ll hear ambient glitch and light-reactive feedback. Another night, a whisper turned seismic. Birdsong, subway tremors, synthetic chorales. Listening can feel like being inside a generative dream.

Fridman Gallery was founded in 2013 by Russian émigré Ilya Fridman, a lawyer who had worked at creative agencies and advised new media startups for 15 years. In 2021, he opened another space in Beacon, New York, to expand exhibition space and offer additional opportunities for outdoor performances. He founded New Ear, Inc. and The New Ear Festival in 2024 to celebrate artists pushing the boundaries of sonic innovation.