IN ALIGNMENT

Helm Contemporary is pleased to present In Alignment, an exhibition of works on paper and paintings by Rick Klauber and Dana Gordon. The show considers alignment through the enduring presence of the grid, an organizing structure central to modern abstraction since Piet Mondrian. For both artists, the grid endures as structure—supporting color, guiding movement, and holding the work in balance.

Klauber’s works on paper and reliefs explore line, interval, and color as structured systems. In the reliefs, individually painted wooden shims are mounted directly to the wall, forming measured sequences where bands of color establish rhythm. Each shim retains its material presence—grain, edge, density—while contributing to an overall spatial order. The grid operates implicitly, and color functions as a structural element within the composition.

Gordon engages the grid as both armature and site of activation. Beneath looping lines lies a disciplined framework that anchors each composition. Gesture does not dissolve this order; it tests and reanimates it. Saturated fields of color generate spatial tension while maintaining the integrity of the picture plane, extending the modernist dialogue between geometry and expression into the present.

Together, the works propose alignment as a dynamic condition—where structure and improvisation coexist, and where color defines space through relation rather than illusion. In Alignment situates both artists within an ongoing conversation with abstraction, where the grid persists not as a fixed system, but as a living matrix.