Dimitri Grachis, artist and gallerist who showed work of the Beats, dies at 88
Sam Whiting January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:10 am Dimitri Grachis in the doorway of Spatsa Gallery. Photo: John Natsoulas Press Spatsa Gallery lasted only four years in San Francisco, but they were four crucial years, 1957-1961, as the assemblage art associated with the Beats bridged into the abstract expressionism and cubism of the 1960s. Never a commercial gallery, Spatsa was artist-run by its owner, Dimitri Grachis, who lived in the office behind the storefront on Filbert Street at Fillmore. Grachis, who closed Spatsa to concentrate on his own career as a minimal ...
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