There’s something classically San Francisco about the Market Street storefront currently occupied by the gallery 1599fdT. Narrow and long, with unnecessarily high ceilings, the space is an ad hoc assemblage of inexplicable architectural details.
Above the entry, an angular arch of windows is abbreviated six panes into its expected eight. At the back of the gallery, the ceiling suddenly drops to a meager six feet, creating a cave-like zone for owner and director Facundo Argañaraz during his Friday and Saturday open hours.
These physical quirks are well met by Dimensions Variable, an exhibition of late-2000s work by the Berlin artist Alexander Wolff. Wolff’s painted and dyed pieces on cotton, canvas and linen are endlessly modular. Made up of three to eight separate sections, they fasten t