Maria Calandra
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present Contents May Vary, a group exhibition that embraces variety not as a seasonal inevitability, but as a working method. This isn’t a summer vacation.
It’s a field of competing frequencies—shifts in scale, tone, and intent—gathered not to define the program, but to stress its pressure points.
Borrowing its title from the familiar packaging disclaimer, Contents May Vary resists coherence in favor of proximity: works placed not for alignment, but for charge. Think of the exhibition not as a show with a thesis, but as a structure built from friction—between figures and fields, decoration and dissonance, the polished and the unstable.
Some works will rotate or reappear throughout the run—not as spectacle, but as part of the gallery’s longer rhythm of testing, revision, and return. What looks like looseness is, in fact, a form of listening.
Contents May Vary reflects the gallery’s belief that aesthetic friction is not a flaw in the system—it is the system. And that the most lasting encounters often begin not with resolution, but with tension that holds.
