Grid Artist

Chuck Close used grid patterns in his larger than life portrait paintings. They were teetering on the line of photorealism and had not been seen by any artist before. He paints the portraits by painting individual squares different colors and different colors inside of those squares. This technique causes the colors to blur together and look realistic from afar."Working from a gridded photograph, he builds his images by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colors or grayscale. He works methodically, starting his loose but regular grid from the left hand corner of the canvas."

Russian artist Ekaterina Panikanova uses a grid system of books and documents as her canvas for her paintings. Panikanova explores the theme of childhood memories, inviting the audience to discover themselves by reading behind the lines of their subconscious. Panikanova attempts to visually rewrite the innermost stories of the human psyche by directly intervening on the pages of open books. Arranging old books, notebooks and prints from different eras into an irregular grid, Panikanova puts together an unconventional oversized canvas of interrupted surfaces. Laid out in groups, the books resemble pieces of a puzzle that appear to be interchangeable yet heavily reliant on one another, very much like the experiences and memories that collectively piece together a lifetime. The outcome is a series of spectacular three-dimensional artworks that shy away from the conventional format of painting, flirting instead, with the set-up of an installation."source



"Artist Esther Stocker has built a disjointed grid of black blocks across the floor, walls and ceiling of Z33 – House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium The arrangement of the blocks suggests a grid that's only half visible, leaving the viewer to mentally piece together the remaining elements.'Based on a Grid' is part of Z33's current exhibition 'Mind the System, Find the Gap', in which more than 30 international artists offer their interpretation on the idea of gaps in the system."-source