Synthetic modernism and the grid

Synthetic Modernism is an approach that seeks to reevaluate modernist conventions in the light of postmodern developments. This research project focuses on symbolic, open-ended narrative and traces the grid as a structure that divides and connects modernist and postmodernist attitudes. In light of a growing dissatisfaction with poststructuralist strategies of the late 20th century, and in avoidance of revisionism of earlier theoretical positions, the aim is to deliver a new approach to art making that reintroduces structured narrative to the picture plane, considering the presence of the grid in painting and digital technology