Fridman Gallery is honored to present Mirrored in Time, an exhibition examining relationships between external physical environments and internal mind-spaces.
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 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.
Daniel Neumann’s 8-channel sound installation tunes sustained drones to subjective resonances (felt vibration) and the acoustic space of the gallery. The tones are carefully calibrated to produce beating, interference patterns, and microtonal shimmering in the air. Daniel Neumann, Dilation (Excerpt from Day #399), 2026, Sound Installation Naomi Lisiki., Coeur des Tropiques (Heart of The Tropics), 2026, Oil on canvas, 50 x 54 in. Naomi Lisiki’s paintings are at once representational and abstract; the viewers are looking simultaneously at the edge of a lush rainforest, their distant memory of it, and their emotions experienced then and now. Time appears as waves, rather than points on a line. Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Ripples, 2025, Handcarved and handprinted linocut on custom handmade kozo paper, 19 x 38 in. (48.3 x 96.5 cm) Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka employs traditional Japanese papermaking and printing techniques to record shifting natural environments and our place within them. The works reflect water, as frozen and moving, presenting an opportunity to relate to geological time.
Will Maxen’s figures submerge in metaphorical landscapes, as if the psyche is connecting versions of itself. Paint itself becomes the unifying medium of personal histories, a harmonic table of frequencies which had fragmented over time. Will Maxen, The Sun Beyond This One, 2026, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 80 in. (177.8 x 203.2 cm)
