OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism

OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism

260 Utah Street San Francisco, CA 94103, USA Tuesday, April 11, 2023–Saturday, May 20, 2023


cosmic background radiation 1 by jutta haeckel

Jutta Haeckel

Cosmic Background Radiation 1, 2022

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nantahala by isabella kirkland

Isabella Kirkland

Nantahala, 2023

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artwork 1060307 by nicole phungrasamee fein

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein

1060307, 2007

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mexico city and lake texcoco by lordy rodriguez

Lordy Rodriguez

Mexico City and Lake Texcoco, 2022

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11 April – 20 May 2023

OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism


This sprawling group exhibition will trace the use of the form of the grid in contemporary art, beginning with some of its most illustrious mid-20th century proponents: Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and South American geometric abstractionists Luis Tomasello, Francisco Sobrino and Antonio Asis. From there, it examines conceptual uses of the grid from the 1970s and 80s and utilizes that history to establish a vantage point from which to explore a current resurgence in the motif among contemporary artists of wide-ranging cultural backgrounds.

Artists include Antonio Asis, Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Jim Campbell, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Richard Diebenkorn, Manuel Espinosa, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Jutta Haeckel, Damien Hirst, Birgit Jensen, Jess, Isabella Kirkland, Stefan Kürten, Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Bernard Lokai,  LOT-EK, Emil Lukas, Marco Maggi, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Liliana Porter, Lordy Rodriguez, Surabhi Saraf, Francisco Sobrino, Pablo Siquier and Luis Tomasello.