George Ortman, Constructions: 1949 – 2011, Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York, NY
George Ortman’s painted constructions of the 1950s and early 1960s are pioneering works. Their reductive geometry and modular color were widely seen as being at the forefront of young artists move away from abstract expressionism.
Resonant Frequencies, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Resonant Frequencies explores the complex relationship of sound and image in contemporary art. The exhibition surveys the role that sound plays in the conceptual and aesthetic development of contemporary sculpture, painting and technologically-driven art.
Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011, Gering & Lopez, New York, NY
Over the last twenty five years my work has taken several forms of expression, from concentric circle or target paintings, to black and white line paintings, to photographs, to cartoon-inspired drawings, to paintings that can be described as psychedelic ‘candyland’ themed landscapes, to small thickly encaustic abstractions.
John Tallman, OK Harris, New York, NY
John Tallman’s process starts with the creation of a unique support cast in urethane plastic with the dimensions being about the same as a piece of paper. Each acrylic painting has a different and original starting point that denies a chronology.
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Textility is an exhibition that explores the inventive ways contemporary artists employ materials, concepts, and processes associated with textiles to convey their ideas.
Christian Megert: a new space, Mayor Gallery, London, England
James Mayor invited Christian Megert to give his view of the origins of Zero and to explain his own contribution to the development of the group in this catalogue. What he produced is not a complete presentation. In the form of a scarce curriculum vitae, Megert recalls, without pathos, events, meetings and facts.
David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
The Wexner Center for the Arts is pleased to present David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, the first major thematic exhibition devoted to the work of the renowned 20th-century American sculptor. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the exhibition brings together approximately 80 works from throughout Smith's career.
Colorific, Ecole des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium
The Ecole des Arts de Braine-l'Alleud in Belgium presents the exhibition "Colorific," featuring the work of almost 20 artists who explore color.
Grid List, Center Galleries, College for Creative Arts, Detroit, MI
Grid List presents 16 artists, 13 working in geometric abstraction, and three working quite “gridless” (Can the grid be active behind the image?). Their conceptual fodder ranges from sports, math, science, film, graphic design and video games.
Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
Theodore:Art is pleased to present the first exhibition in our new home in Bushwick: work by Dana Bell, Alasdair Duncan, and Don Voisine. These three artists, while creating very different work, all touch on the possibilities of communicating ideas in a space outside of language.
Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
A key figure of the Paris avant-garde in the 1950s and ’60s, Jesús Soto (1923–2005) is widely recognized for his groundbreaking innovations in color theory, serial composition, and movement in art. Less well-known is the wide range of styles and mediums that he explored early on. Drawing inspiration from optics and serial music, Soto employed repeating geometric forms and superimposed surfaces to convey a sense of physical displacement.
Lotte Lyon: Souterrain, Galerie Lisaruyter, Vienna, Austria
“Souterrain” will consist of new objects built in response to the gallery space, a wall painting, and recent photographs from 5 different series. Lotte Lyon’s sculptures employ a pragmatism in the materials used, in the methods of assembly, and in the delivery of associative ideas.
Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Participating Artists: Anneke Klein Kranenbarg - Els Moes - Guido Winkler - Henriette Van ‘t Hoog - Iemke Van Dijk - Jasper Van Der Graaf - Mel Prest - Ro Hagers - Roland De Jong Orlando - Ruth Van Veenen - Sarah Klein Tineke Porck
Nancy Holt: Sight Lines, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
Nancy Holt: Sightlines is a thematic exhibition offering an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering works falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time-based media.
Ward Jackson 1928-2004: A Survey of Five Decades, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Ward Jackson was born and grew up in Petersburg, Virginia. He studied painting at the Richmond Polytechnic Institute of the College of William and Mary, now Virginia Commonwealth University, earning his Master's Degree there in 1952. While still in school Jackson began the correspondence with Guggenheim curator Hilla Rebay that would eventually lead to his long tenure with that institution.
Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
Starting January 24, 2012 Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of John Cage, Norte Maar will collaborate with E.A.T. to present Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The twelve evenings of performances of music, poetry, theater, visual art, and dance, occurring once each month, will span the calendar year of 2012. Most of the performances will take place in the front room of Norte Maar’s apartment gallery, and will be broadcast onto the [...]
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, England
Bernard Frize, Suite Segond 100 No 3, 1980 Household paint on canvas 51 x 64 inches January 14 – March 10, 2012 The Indiscipline of Painting is an international group exhibition including works by forty-nine artists from the 1960s to now. Selected by British painter Daniel Sturgis, it considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last [...]
Cottage Work: Michelle Grabner, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
The Green Gallery will feature Michelle Grabner’s new body of paintings in the exhibition, “Cottage Work,” a title that implies an association with the informal and practical traditions of craft, particularly weaving.
Daniel Göttin: Objekt und Raum, Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstraum Oktogon in Bern, Switzerland, is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Daniel Göttin.
Re-Generation, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Painting Center is pleased to present Re-Generation, a traveling exhibition featuring the work of three generations of painter-teachers. This exhibition traces the regeneration of thought in painting and art education by linking the translation of visual ideas between students and teachers to the teaching of Josef Albers.
On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York & 136 Other Cities, David Zwirner, New York, NY
David Zwirner is pleased to present the exhibition On Kawara: Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities, on view at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces. The exhibition will feature over 150 works selected by the artist, comprising a seminal presentation of his renowned date paintings from 1966 to the present (known collectively as the Today series).
Kees Visser and Anett Frontzek, Galerie Hein Elferink, Straphorst, The Netherlands
Painting by Kees Visser January 12 – February 18, 2012 Galerie Hein Elferink in Straphorst, The Netherlands, presents a two-person exhibition featuring the artists Kees Visser and Anett Frontzek.
Alfred Jensen/Sol LeWitt: Systems and Transformation, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of Alfred Jensen and Sol LeWitt, two artists whose bodies of work connect to the grid and are governed by systems. Exhibited side-by-side, Jensen’s colorful and tactile diagrammatic paintings and LeWitt’s minimalist white structures reveal the vastly different outcomes that can arise from similar conceptual foundations.
Jim Isermann: Reunion, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Installation view. January 5 – February 4, 2012 On 5 January 2012, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location Reunion, a selection of work from the 1980s by JIM ISERMANN. Isermann belongs to that influential second generation of LA artists who post-graduated from CalArts in the late 1970s. Isermann had been ahead of the curve by being out of step to begin with. During the high point of Postmodernism, he was excavating [...]
The Non-I Protects the I, SoHo20 Chelsea, New York, NY
The Non-I Protects the I is a three-person exhibition with the work of Joelle Dietrick, Meg Mitchell, and Judy Rushin. Taken from Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, the title focuses on Bachelard’s ideas about the importance of shelter.
Gary Petersen & Halsey Hathaway: New Paintings, Paintings by Rob de Oude, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Storefront Bushwick presents an exhibition of new paintings by Gary Petersen and Halsey Hathaway.
Happy Holidays
MINUS SPACE will be open by appointment only from December 19, 2011 - January 12, 2012. We look forward to seeing you again in the new year.
Tribute to the Triangle, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney, Australia
December 10, 2011 - January 29, 2012
Tribute to the Triangle is group exhibition featuring artists affiliated with ParisCONCRET (Paris) and Sydney Non Objective (Sydney).
VIEWLIST: Ted Stamm in Context, Conceived by Bryan Granger
Our fifth VIEWLIST exhibition is conceived by MINUS SPACE assistant Bryan Granger.
With his work, Ted Stamm draws as much from a Minimalist, hard-edge legacy as it does from the randomness and arbitrariness of his own life. Seeing as Stamm sought to “eliminate any physical boundary in time or space” between his life and his work, we must look at the two as inseparable. His sleek manipulations of baseball diamonds and high-speed trains offer a glimpse into some of his passions, and his Wooster paintings preserve specific spatial memories from his time in New York.
Eye to Eye: Joseph Marioni at the Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Organized as part of The Phillips Collection’s 90th anniversary, Eye to Eye features a group of paintings by modern American artist Joseph Marioni in the context of the museum permanent collection.
Peter Krauskopf, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
Walter Storms Galerie in Munich presents a solo exhibition of the work of Peter Krauskopf.
Richard Serra: Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “Drawings,” an exhibition introducing two new series of work by Richard Serra, July and Rifts. This is his first major drawing exhibition in Paris since 1995.
Jason Middlebrook: A Break from Content, DODGEgallery, New York, NY
Middlebrook’s long-standing interest in abstraction, intersecting disciplines and nature are the cross-currents of his most recent exhibition. For the first time, Middlebrook is presenting an in-depth investigation of a singular body of work: his planks. The exhibition also marks the artist's most abstract body of work to date.
Cathy Choi: Recent Paintings, Pushing Paint, Brooklyn, NY
Cathy Choi: Recent Paintings is the culmination of a decade long study depcting the elusive, prismatic qualities of water. In this lateest series, Choi employs a combination of liquid resin, hot-glue forms, and oil paint capturing an otherwordly topography of electric color and physical depth symbolic of her personal views on nature.
ENP2 Monochrome Paintings, Everything Nothing Projects, Canberra, Australia
The continuing tradition of monochrome (one colour) painting in western art began in the early 20th century. American curator, critic and writer Barbara Rose describes monochrome painting as: ‘simultaneously fullness and void, a moment of silence in a world of noise. It goes nowhere and everywhere, it is specific and universal, tangible and immaterial. It is the ultimate paradox.’
József Bullás, Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
The Erika Deák Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition from the latest works of József Bullás. Bullás became known in the 1980s as member of Hungarian "newpainting" movement.
