The Sandra Gering Gallery is a
650 square foot space located in the heart of Chelsea’s art gallery district.
Contrary to the prevailing minimal aesthetic of the galleries in the
neighborhood, a different language is deliberately used to create a versatile
small-scale exhibition space. The spatial geometry is carefully constructed to
animate the effect of scalar oscillation between a frame for art and a space of
architecture. This design strives to question a tradition of neutrality defined
by the internalized white cube as a norm for showing art. Exercising the
pragmatics of art curating into a specific performative geometry, the lighting
fields, programmatic requirements for art placement, gallery office and storage
are used as a constraint series for spatial organization and visual layering.
Addition rather than subtraction is used to generate the illusion of expansion.