Once The Block Is Carved, There Will Be Names is a wide-ranging exhibition that convenes West Coast artists whose work may be understood as unknown and unknowable; recalcitrant; taciturn. While it is centered in the historical tradition of non-objective abstraction, particularly within painting and sculpture, it also believes – radically, perhaps – in the continuing possibility of newness and discovery, of finding quiet space in the crowded and noisy arena of contemporary discourse.