ABOUT
“Our neighborhood’s own advocates of minimalism.” — The Brooklyn Rail
“A primary voice…in the field of concept-driven abstraction.” — Artcritical
“Here’s a rarity — a tiny, specialized gallery with a very wide reach.” — ARTnews
“A philosophy of less is more.” — Time Out New York
“This charming cube of Zen.” — Village Voice
“Top Ten 2008” — New York Magazine
The only gallery of its kind in the United States, MINUS SPACE specializes in reductive abstract art on the international level. Reductive art is generally characterized by its use of plainspoken materials, monochromatic or limited color, geometry and pattern, repetition and seriality, precise craftsmanship, and intellectual rigor. Reductive art is inclusive and pluralistic in its approach, including geographic location, age, gender, medium, artistic strategy, and content of work.
We present museum-quality solo and group exhibitions by pioneering emerging and established artists at our Brooklyn gallery, as well as at other collaborating venues on the national and international levels. Our exhibition program focuses specifically on the following five areas:
* Pioneering emerging artists with a demonstrated vision and practice committed to reductive art.
* Established, yet overlooked older artists working in the United States with excellent reputations and demonstrated influence within their community of artists.
* Established, international artists that have never or rarely exhibited in New York City or the United States.
* Historical exhibitions that reexamine underknown, deceased artists.
* Experimental exhibitions (ideas, ephemera, topical issues, etc.).
We represent an incomparable array of groundbreaking national and international artists working across all visual arts media. Gallery artists are included in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center, British Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others. The gallery also maintains inventory, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, works on paper, and multiples, by more than 60 additional artists working around the globe.
Our exhibitions have been reviewed and discussed in publications such as Art in America, Artcritical, Artnet Magazine, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, Houston Public Radio, Huffington Post, The New Criterion, New York Magazine, NYFA Current, New York Sun, Time Out New York, Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
In 2008, MoMA PS1 mounted the comprehensive five-year survey exhibition MINUS SPACE curated by Phong Bui, which included 54 artists from 14 countries. New York Magazine named the show one of the best exhibitions of 2008. The gallery was also recently cited as a critical venue regarding the future of reductive abstract art in the book Complete Concrete: Over 100 Years of Constructive, Concrete, and Conceptual Art, published by Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switerland (2011).
We provide art advisory services for the development of private, corporate, and institutional collections. We also have expertise in framing, installation, shipping, commissions, conservation, and appraisals. MINUS SPACE was founded in 2003 by artists Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez, and relocated to Dumbo, Brooklyn’s premiere gallery building at 111 Front Street in September 2011.
* We are not reviewing unsolicited artist submissions or exhibition proposals at this time.
GREEN EFFORTS
We use low-odor, low-VOC paint at the gallery. Our web site is hosted by a carbon-neutral company Dreamhost. We also don’t print or mail out exhibition announcements — we do all communications by email and social media:
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OPEN SOURCE
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CREATIVE COMMONS
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MINUS SPACE is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, so your donation will be fully tax-deductible. To make a donation, please click here.
