MINUS SPACE
98 4th Street, Unit 204 (Buzzer #28)
Brooklyn, NY 11231 USA
between Hoyt + Bond | Carroll Gardens / Gowanus
347.525.4628
info@minusspace.com
Skype: minusspace
Hours
Fridays & Saturdays, 12-6pm, and by appointment
> Directions
> Downtown Brooklyn Galleries Map
MISSION
“Our neighborhood’s own advocates of minimalism.” —The Brooklyn Rail
MINUS SPACE is a platform for reductive art on the international level. We value art, ideas, and collaboration.
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.
In addition to our comprehensive web site, we operate a gallery in Brooklyn where we mount solo and group exhibitions of pioneering emerging and established American and international artists. Our gallery is the only venue of its kind in the United States, and one of only a handful of comparable spaces on the international level dedicated to reductive art.
MINUS SPACE was founded by artists Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez in 2003. For further information, check out our recent interviews:
* MINUS SPACE: The Art of Reduction, by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Newspaper, Fall/Winter 2008
* Reality Check Interview with Matthew Deleget, by Jackie Battenfield, The Artist’s Guide, October 2008
* Neighborhood Beat: Profile on MINUS SPACE & Michael Brennan, BCAT / Brooklyn Community Access Television, January-February 2007
STAY CONNECTED
MINUS SPACE is a community of artists sharing ideas and information. You can stay connected with us in a number of different ways:
* Email list
* RSS feed
* Facebook group
* Twitter feed
* YouTube channel
For log or other submissions, please see our submissions page.
DONATE
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 see our donate page. For a list of our supporters to-date, please see our supporters page.
LOG
“Favorite Art Blog” — artkrush.com
Our log highlights significant exhibitions, publications, interviews, and other news about reductive art on the international level. We welcome information about exhibitions, news, and other ideas for possible inclusion in our log. Please see our submissions page for instructions.
EXHIBITIONS
“Here’s a rarity — a tiny, specialized gallery with a very wide reach.” — Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTnews
“Top Ten 2008 (MINUS SPACE at P.S.1 is cited in #10)” — Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine & Artnet Magazine
Since 2006, we’ve organized nearly 30 solo and group exhibitions at our gallery in the Gowanus, Brooklyn, as well as other collaborating venues on the national and international levels. For a complete archive, check out our past exhibitions page.
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.).
For submissions, please see our submissions page.
VIEWLIST
Launched in February 2009, VIEWLIST is a new online project space where we invite artists and others to curate a visual essay of images. VIEWLIST exhibitions are experimental and usually thematic, and can include art works spanning various time periods, movements, and geographic locations. Exhibitions may also include ideas and images from disciplines outside of the visual arts. With VIEWLIST, we’ve created a venue that focuses exclusively on ideas, a kind of idealized curatorial space, where exhibition budgets, loans and acquisitions of art works, timelines, and all other logistics are set aside.
FLATFILES
Our flatfiles feature works by select reductive artists working around the globe, including drawings, prints, photographs, works on paper, editions, and multiples. Some paintings, sculpture, and design objects are also available. Each month, we highlight the work of one artist from our flatfiles on our web site.
BOOKSTORE
Our bookstore features dozens of publications on reductive art and ideas on the international level, including artist monographs, exhibition catalogs, journals, ephemera, and select vintage books. Each month, we highlight one publication from our bookstore on our web site.
GREEN EFFORTS
Our office is now completely powered by renewable wind energy. Our site is also green and hosted by a carbon neutral company, Dreamhost.
We don’t print or mail out exhibition announcements — we do all communications by email. Join MINUS SPACE’s email list for exhibition news and other updates.
OPEN SOURCE
Launched in January 2009, our new site was built in the open source publishing platform WordPress by actor and technology developer Brad Stephenson. Many thanks Brad!
CREATIVE COMMONS
We believe in the free exchange of information. Our site is therefore licensed under Creative Commons (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives). You are free to share, copy, distribute, and transmit our content under the following conditions:
* You must attribute reproduced content to “MINUS SPACE”.
* You may not use our content for commercial purposes.
* You may not alter or transform our content.
* You must provide a link back to MINUS SPACE’s homepage (www.minusspace.com).
* PLEASE NOTE: Individual images and texts reproduced on MINUS SPACE are copyrighted, however, to the originating artists and writers.
PRESS / BLOGS
Summer Group Shows, by Robert Shuster, Village Voice, August 25, 2010
Julian Dashper: It Is Life at MINUS SPACE, by Tana Mitchell, PROCESS Blog, August 18, 2010
Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life at MINUS SPACE, James Kalm Report, August 8, 2010
Artlog’s Top Art & Culture Picks, Huffington Post, August 4, 2010
Be Prepared to Go With the Flow, by Adam Gifford, New Zealand Herald, July 31, 2010
Interview with Jeff Jahn, ArC: Art & Concept blog, August 19, 2010
First Thursday Picks August 2010, PORT – Portland art + news + reviews, August 3, 2010
Albers’ Record Jackets: Doing an Artful Job, by Joseph Masheck (The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009/January 2010)
Josef Albers Cover Art (Generation Next blog, January 18, 2010)
Josef Albers for Command Records (The Silver Lining blog, February 4, 2010)
Josef Albers Album Covers (AisleOne blog, February 4, 2010)
Josef Albers (Crew Design blog, February 5, 2010)
Josef Albers Album Covers (Bridging the Gap blog, February 6, 2010)
Tangents: Gordon’s Psycho, Gordon’s Miami, Albers’s Covers (Disquiet blog, February 12, 2010)
MINUS SPACE: Josef Albers (Workpath blog, February 12, 2010)
Brooklyn: MINUS SPACE & Tompkins Projects, KCLOG, November 19, 2009
Marketing Mondays: Gallery Business, Joanne Mattera Art Blog, May 25, 2009
Drunkard’s Walk vs. PMU, Ethan Ham blog, December 18, 2008
MINUS SPACE at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Abstract Contemporary Art blog, December 18, 2008
Top Ten 2008, by Jerry Saltz, Artnet Magazine, December 15, 2008 (MINUS SPACE is cited in #10)
The Year in Art: The Top Nine Shows (and One Event), by Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, December 7, 2008 (MINUS SPACE is cited in #10)
Michael Brennan at 210 Gallery and P.S.1, by Paul Corio, November 16, 2008
Interview with Simon Ingram / MINUS SPACE exhibition at P.S.1, New York, Vernissage TV, November 10, 2008
MINUS SPACE, by Eva Lake, November 10, 2008
MINUS SPACE at P.S.1, The James Kalm Report, November 2, 2008
Update, Henri Art Magazine, November 1, 2008
Reductive Art at P.S.1, by Jon Meyer, October 25, 2008
MINUS SPACE: The Art of Reduction, by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Newspaper, Fall/Winter 2008
Reality Check Interview with Matthew Deleget, by Jackie Battenfield, The Artist’s Guide, October 2008
Technology in the Arts Podcast #49, by Brad Stephenson, August 29, 2008
Laura Silver on Shinsuke Aso: Postcard (SAPC), NYFA Current, July 30, 2008
Atlantic Avenue Art Walk This Weekend, by B. Blagojevic, ArtCal Zine, June 3, 2008
The Front Row: Machine Leaning at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Interview with Henry Brown, Matthew Deleget & Gilbert Hsiao, Houston Public Radio (KUHF.FM), April 24, 2008
Machine Learning: Reductive artists get to the point, by Olivia Flores Alvarez, Houston Press, March 9, 2008
Tilman, by Barbara A. MacAdam, ARTnews, January 2008
Intelligent Design, by John Goodrich, New York Sun, December 27, 2007
Art Blogs, artkrush.com, May 2, 2007
Tiptoeing the Line, by Patrick Kennedy, Doylebrau.com, April 25, 2007
Neighborhood Beat: Profile on MINUS SPACE & Michael Brennan, BCAT / Brooklyn Community Access Television, Jan. 25, Feb. 14, Feb. 19 & Feb. 23, 2007, Episode 31
Environmental Change Sparks Some Creativity, Courier Life, December 6, 2006
Dateline Brooklyn, by Stephen Maine, Artnet Magazine, April 15, 2005
A Boom Grows in Brooklyn, by James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2004
