A black metal door of an industrial-like brick building welcomes visitors to Lawrence Markey, a gallery that opened in the early 1990s in New York and moved to San Antonio in 2005. In a city with plenty of artist-run spaces and non-profits but only a handful of commercial galleries, Lawrence Markey certainly enriches San Antonio’s art scene. With a program featuring mostly drawings, paintings, and prints of mid-career artists and historical figures from the 1960s and ’70s, the gallery brings significant Minimalist and abstract works by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Jo Baer, and Suzan Frecon to the city’s public. Currently on show is Fred Sandback (1943–2003), an American artist who has been integral to the gallery’s program with more than ten exhibitions, including its inaugural one in 1990. Sandback is best known for his ephemeral sculptures made with humble materials, such as elastic cords and yarn, always stretched horizontally or vertically, allowing different configurations. In these works, stripes outline empty space, creating a specific spatial arrangement that complicates any simple perception of a given area. His three-dimensional drawings explore line and color as the illusionistic producers of new and unimagined spaces that change depending on the position of the viewer. The …