“The early grid work,” says the artist Arlene Slavin, “came out of the geometry of Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland in those years, but I’ve always used thin paint, overlays, and issues of transparency.” Slavin, who was born in Brooklyn in 1942, developed her pencil-grid system in the 1970s, when she began to layer sketched grids with shimmering, overlapping color. She takes inspiration from the East—Islamic tile work, Byzantine mosaics, Japanese woodblocks—and also makes sculptures and prints. This exhibition explores Slavin’s work, beginning in 1970. —Elena Clavarino