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Since the late 1960s, Venezuelan-born Espinoza has perpetually challenged, explored, subverted and also embraced art historical conventions -- allowing for dynamic dialogue between the modernist traditions of Arte Povera, Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction and the artist's distinctly independent and powerful conceptual canon.

Espinoza is known for his nonfigurative, humorous and irreverent manipulations of grid forms. The grid occurs not as a recurring theme in abstract painting, but, as Espinoza states, "as an anonymous object, as a ready-made, something that nobody invented, that …