The Grid
The Grid provides a visual and conceptual framework—at once a structure and a suggestion, a blueprint and a puzzle. In this exhibition, artists explore the grid not as a fixed form, but as an open idea: abstracted, fractured, interpreted through line, form, and feeling. The Grid features the works of Mary Ellen Bartley, Blair Seagram, Bastienne Schmidt, and Louise P. Sloane.
In this exhibition, the grid becomes metaphor. It maps our lives—moments intersect, relationships overlap, and our directions wind in and out of view. Sometimes we move within the framework; other times, we’re at its edges or entirely outside it. Rather than thinking outside the box, these artists think around it—disrupting familiar patterns, redirecting the eye, and opening new ways of seeing.
The Grid invites us to reconsider structure not as limitation, but as possibility.
Images from top:
Louise P. Sloane, Sizzler, 2017, acrylic pastes and paints on aluminum panel, 46 x 44", courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Etienne Frossard.
Bastienne Schmidt, Gold Grid with Pink Thread, 2024, duck cotton canvas with polymer paint and polymer grid and string, stretched over canvas, 24 x 24", courtesy of the artist.
Mary Ellen Bartley, Three Stacks Yellow Sticker, courtesy of the artist.
Blair Seagram, Shelter Green 9B, 2024, UV print on plexi, 6" x 10" x 1.5", courtesy of the artist.