Preview, Susan Finsen, Grids, July 10 - Aug 5, 2009

Grids Exhibition Preview
Susan Finsen

Grids are systems of crisscrossed bars. They provide structure, organize space, and bring order to chaos. They exist in the natural world and are used in typography, utility distribution, sports, games, cartography, city planning, design and many other areas of human activity.

I see grid imagery all around me -- street grates, griddles, screens, lattices, graphs. Imagery of woven surfaces, knits, and warps and wefts were plentiful in my childhood as my father was in the textile industry. I remember watching giant knitting machines weaving long tubes of interlocking grids that would then be cut and reassembled into sweaters.

All of this imagery has inspired my recent grid paintings. In this series, my grids produce structures with not quite parallel lines, lattices that stop and start, checkerboards that play with circles and loops, and grates through which one can view the layers below. The grid has joined the circle, loop, and other gestural forms in my world of mark making.

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