Interior Resonances: 10th Anniversary Show: Curated by Regine Basha

13 July - 25 August 2023

Interior Resonances, curated by Regine Basha, features works by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Tamar Ettun, Alina Grasmann, Milford Graves, Yvette Janine Jackson, Remy Jungerman, Nina Katchadourian, Dana Kavelina, Victoria Keddie, Jacob Kirkegaard, Nate Lewis, Dindga McCannon, Daniel Neumann, Aura Satz, Kazumi Tanaka, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Jan Tichy, and Summer Wheat.

It has been 10 years since the first show at Fridman Gallery. From the beginning, the gallery aimed to show emerging artists working in painting, sculpture and installation, often giving the artists space to create new work and experiment and guest curators room to explore ideas. The gallery saw the value of giving artists free reign of the space, including setting aside time between the exhibitions to allow for live music, experimental performance, dance and other interdisciplinary works. Serial programs emerged and took root such as the annual New Ear Festival showcasing some of New York's most exciting experimental performers every January, and, more recently, Radial - electronic music as an art form, and Morir Soñando, a series pairing electro-acoustic musicians with free-improv instrumentalists.

With all this fullness, the 10th anniversary show will consist of three distinct but related parts:
- Interior Resonances, an exhibition of sculptures, prints, and paintings in the gallery's main space, curated by Regine Basha.
- CT::SWaM's Plasticity Office in the gallery's showroom, designed by sound engineer, artist and curator Daniel Neumann.
- A microcinema in the gallery's downstairs media room featuring an ongoing montage of past performances and interviews, and a weekly screening series.
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Main Gallery:
The group exhibition Interior Resonances brings together a selection of works from the current Fridman Gallery roster as well as from many of the seminal shows and performances that took place during the gallery's early days on Spring street and its current location on the Bowery. Curated by Regine Basha, an early advisor of the gallery, the works in the group exhibition will reflect a plutonian mood, meaning the tendency to dwell in an interior realm, while processing distant memories, wrestling with inner demons, and transmuting these into material forms. The practice of inner work, otherwise known as 'spirit work' or 'shadow work', foregrounds looking inward to reflect fearlessly into the depths of subconscious activity and to reckon with often existential questions about what we are really made of beneath the surface of the skin. Beyond gazing inward, this work also calls for the actual task of carving out space for, listening deeply to, and manifesting specific forms or talismans of these inner forces, as did the early forebears of this, the Surrealists.
Pascale Marine Thayou’s Poupées (or dolls), small figurative sculptures fashioned from crystal and mixed materials. These are wonderfully hybrid sculptures, fusing European and African elements. Crystal connects with the long history of glassmaking (as well as issues of class) in Europe, while the mixed materials and the look of these sculptures connect with different kinds of African sculptures. Marthine Tayou was featured in Flair, a group sculpture exhibition that took place at Fridman Gallery in 2017. Dana Kavelina's works address military violence, historical and individual trauma, and memory. Kavelina has participated in the widely acclaimed group exhibition of twelve women artists from Ukraine responding to the ongoing war, Women At War (2022). Milford Graves was a visual artist, drummer, healer, computer programmer, martial artist, and professor of music. His spirit defined the sounds of free jazz, a musical style that became a symbol of Black empowerment. Graves’ artworks combine the various elements of his genre-bending practice: sculptures, drawings and paintings of energy flows connecting body and mind, often incorporating musical instruments and anatomical studies. Graves first and only gallery show, Heart Harmonics: sound, energy, and natural healing phenomena, took place at Fridman Gallery in 2021, three months after his passing.
Summer Wheat creates unique “paint tapestries” by pushing acrylic paint through the back and onto the front of wire-mesh screens. Inspired by intimate and cosmic space, her tactile, vivid, layered, non-linear compositions offer alternative versions of history, mythology, and folklore.

Wheat’s debut solo exhibition in New York, Walk-In Pantry, took place at Fridman Gallery in 2015.
Jacob Kirkegaard records acoustic and visual properties of carefully selected environments to generate spatial installations, sound sculpture and photography. Kirkegaard's Black Metal Square #1 consists of three freely hanging black metal plates of different sizes whose subtle natural vibrations are amplified and played back into themselves, evoking their resonant frequencies.
Artist
Regine Basha

Heather Dewey-Hagborg

Alina Grasmann

The Estate of Milford Graves

Remy Jungerman

Dana Kavelina

Jacob Kirkegaard

Nate Lewis

Dindga McCannon

Aura Satz

Kazumi Tanaka

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Jan Tichy
About the Curator
Regine Basha
Regine Basha has over 20 years of cultural production experience with exhibitions, special commissions and texts, online projects and publicly-sited curatorial projects throughout the US and internationally as found on Bashaprojects.com. Since the early 2000s she has focused on artists exploring the materiality of sound /music, in exhibitions such as TREBLE, SculptureCenter (2004), The Marfa Sessions, Ballroom Marfa (2008), When you Cut Into the Present the Future Leaks Out, Old Bronx Courthouse/NLE (2016) and with 9+50, Fridman Gallery (2016) she has also worked with seminal artists such as Nina Katchadourian, Michael Rakowitz and Basim Magdy as well as other artists from the MENA region and its diaspora. Since the past decade she has been touring her audio-visual archive / story-telling session Tuning Baghdad to Berlin, Dubai and Los Angeles focusing on the Iraqi-Jewish parties and music she grew up around. In recent years, Basha has taught at Columbia University MFA Sound department, Parsons and SVA and continues to guest lecture and sit on art juries globally. She sits on the Executive Board of Art Matters and on the Advisory Board of Denniston Hill, SETI AIR, and SOFAM in Brussells. From 2016-2019 Basha was the Director of Residencies at Pioneer Works. She holds a BFA from NYU / Concordia University and an MA from Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Currently she divides her time between Madrid and New York.

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