Within the Grid - curated by Natalie Slater

A curation by Natalie Slater, Art Agent at Snap Collective - 'Within the Grid' is a curated selection that brings together painters, mixed-media artists, and digital photographers whose works engage with the formal language of the grid. Some explore strict geometries through overlapping squares and rectilinear planes, where color fields shift subtly between vibrancy and restraint. Others approach the format with looser, expressionist mark-making, allowing the brushstroke to soften the grid’s rigidity. Photography enters the dialogue through serial compositions, in which repeated images are altered in color and rhythm, echoing the patterned logic of film contact sheets. Elsewhere, blurred edges and painterly surfaces destabilize the precision of the square, suggesting its transformation into something more fluid, almost unstable. Together, these works reflect on the grid not only as a structure of order but as a field for experimentation—where geometry becomes both a framework and a site of disruption.

23 Artworks

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