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DESCRIPTION:“NINE SQUARE GRID / NEW MEANINGS” AT DIEGO RIVERA  GALLERY  / SFAI  SAN 
 FRANCISCO–Fourteen artists address the nine square grid in this 
 exhibition opening Monday, July 4, at the Diego Rivera Gallery, San 
 Francisco Art Institute and running through Saturday, July 9. The 
 artists’ reception will occur Tuesday, July 5, from 5-7 pm with a talk by 
 curator Emily Silver at 5 pm. The Gallery is open daily.  Artists included 
 in the show are Kathleen Thompson, Paulette Long, Lori Delmar, Joshua 
 Eggleton, Janet Kham, Jan Blythe, Jessie Cork, Eve Morgenstern, Derek 
 Haverland, Clayton Llewellyn, Carla Fraga, Barry Beach, and Alastair 
 Bolton. Their work explores the use of the nine square grid in very 
 personal, versatile ways.  Carla Fraga, who works primarily in photography 
 and installation, looks at optical illusions intrinsic to the grid format 
 in her digitally created print “Optical Allusion”. Jessie Cork explores 
 repetition as movement in her black and white photographs entitled 
 “Market & 4th / 1/30 second”. Paulette Long challenges the grid by 
 dissolving parts of it with overpowering color in her painting 
 “Chromology: Enter (Nebbia).” The comfort of an implied grid discretely 
 anchors Kathleen Thompson’s complex line work in her large untitled 
 painting, while circular forms soften the grid’s structure in painter Jan 
 Blythe’s “Clan”. Barry Beach’s sky photographs and Eve 
 Morgenstern’s “Tracks” suggest repetition can take numerous forms. 
 Lori Delmar invites our visual sense of touch to celebrate the mundane in 
 her fragile lint piece, “Relic” .  In eighty-one portraits of men with 
 facial hair, Joshua Eggleton creates a population of men similar, in 
 specific ways, to himself. Also drawing meticulously with graphite on 
 paper, Clayton Llewellyn inventively merges the mechanical into the organic 
 in “Fallacy of Manufactured  Inspirato”. In Derek Haverland ‘s 
 sculpture the nine square grid is “extruded” into nine cubes whose 
 relationship one to the other is less rigid. Photographer Janet Kham looks 
 at the viewers’ ability to complete an incomplete image with the grid as 
 an implied format. And Alastair Bolton’s enlists the grid as a format for 
 experimentation in his painting “Untitled Landscape”, a fusion of 
 landscape drawing techniques and acrylic and oil glazes on wood panel.  
 “The creation and use of this elemental structure throughout history 
 fascinates me,” says curator Emily Silver. “The nine square grid has 
 been a familiar part of human experience for thousands of years, from 
 ancient Egyptians who understood human proportion in grid terms, through 
 the tic-tac-toe-like game the Romans played, to Muslim and Christian 
 symbolism throughout the world. Even Fung Shui has long incorporated the 
 compass-based nine square concept of “Nine Palaces” to describe the 
 invisible energy flow in a building. Starting with John Hejduk  at Cooper 
 Union in the Sixties, we see this form in broad use as a contemporary 
 teaching tool. It makes such a high-profile appearance in art and 
 architecture throughout the world, I wanted to see how emerging artists at 
 SFAI make use of it in the Twenty-first Century."  \n 
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SUMMARY:Nine Square Grid Art Exhibition / Reception
LOCATION:SF Art Institute Diego Rivera Gallery
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/30/70413.php
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