Geometry Unruled

Description

Geometry Unruled plays on the dual meaning of the word rule: both the straightedge used to draw geometric lines and systems of order and authority that enforce rules. Like the ruled lines of a page, geometric forms have long been employed by artists to establish visual coherence, structure, and balance along with a sense of purity and transcendence. Geometry often serves as a shorthand for rationality itself.

Rather than celebrating precision and rationality, Geometry Unruled seeks artworks that prioritizes subjectivity, imperfection, and the traces of their own making. It focuses on geometric practices that embrace ambiguity, instability, vulnerability, and disruption. Geometric structures may appear damaged, provisional, improvised, or contingent. They may reflect bodily experience, emotional states, memory, or social and political instability. Artists working in this vein have often turned geometry against itself, revealing its ability to express the unruly. Across generations, artists like Eva Hesse, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Mira Schendel, Julie Mehretu, and Sarah Sze have embodied this sensibility.

Geometry Unruled invites submissions that explore geometry as an open and unstable language, one capable of expressing uncertainty as powerfully as certainty, and complexity as compellingly as order. Through diverse media and methodologies, the exhibition seeks work that loosens geometry from its traditional associations, revealing instead its capacity for contingency, fragility, and imaginative freedom.

All forms of media will be considered as long as they have a material form (for example, purely digital media with no physical form, does not meet the Artsy requirement for exhibited works to be for sale). Accepted formats include painting, sculpture, prints, and other physical artworks.