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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 geometric abstract painter, died Jan. 9 at the VA hospital in Palo Alto. He was 88. Cause of death was deteriorating lung disease, according to his nephew, George Metropulos of Belmont. Grachis had been living in an apartment in downtown San Mateo for the past 25 years. ....