Grid+Painting

Keep in mind when looking at these repros that there are many, many more examples of grid painting. These are ones that fit what I was thinking at a particular time. Names like Jasper Johns and Jeniffer Bartlett, Agnes Martin, even Mondrian are some of the more famous grid painters. This is as opposed to Chuck Close who I feel used the grid as more a structure to paint on rather than an end in itself. A fine line but a line never the less. As you will see there are many ways to use a grid structure. I am entranced by them and I do not know why. It may be a way of ordering images or destroying or rebelling against structure. I think the grid is a stabilizing force. Of course it is a structure, a physical structure, but it is more than that for me. It is not math. It is order though and symmetry and it is repetition though not a pattern as we know pattern. It is a given thing to fight against and work within. It is Paul Klee fooling with paint and color. These end up being things themselves. Agnes Martin really floored me when I first saw her work. I had a similar reaction to Phil Glasses work. It is there, you see it, you hear it but it is not to be captured.

Jasper Johns

Jenniffer Bartlett J

Larry Poons Began using the grid as a structure to paint on. Then he began to reject the grid with his Discs paintings seen below.

A drawing for an early Poons Dot painting Jack Tworkov was an Abstract Expressionist before using the grid and his carefully constructed color field paintings. Sol Lewitt Katie Pasquini Masopust Sean Scully Aydin Hamami Marilyn MacGregor Above and below - Katherine Knauer www.oldereyes.wordpress.com Larry Schute Rona Innes Rita Childress L.S. L.S Lane Banks Esther Solondz Woven Photo, Larry Shulte?

Sam Francis

Sam Francis ? Alan Shields

Steve Locke

Kerry Vandermeer Kerry Vandermeer

Agnes Martin Agnes Martin Agnes Martin painting Miranda Parks

Dennis Farrell above and below

Mozer

Piet Mondrian below

Andy Warhol Jannis Kounellis - above and below Alan Shields Alan Shields Alan Shields

Jennifer Bartlett is an artist that has used the grid for many years. Joanne Greenbaum Morton