The flatfiles at MINUS SPACE project space 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.

 

FROM THE FLATFILES
Each month, we highlight the work of one artist from our flatfiles on our web site. This month we feature Brooklyn painter Gabriele Evertz. The three works below are part of a larger series of 28 acrylic paintings on paper produced during the summer 2009.

About her works, Evertz writes “The series of paintings on paper were made in my studio in Greenport during July and August 2009.  My intention was to make initial studies for a mural size painting on canvas, which was the primary focus that summer. But the paintings on paper soon developed a purpose of their own. Problems are pursued in a series, with each image posing one solution. The lineage of serialism can be traced back to Monet. Josef Albers extended this idea into the realm of abstraction.

I found that serialism is a process, not a finality. Constant variation was the order. One painting led to the next. The sole criteria was a structure so simple and ‘neutral’ that it would make the behavior of color relations and interactions the major event that could be distinguished, remembered, and followed. In the end, this notion is circular, in that there is a recall, or return of the beginning. Within this, events merge and disappear, usually affording hints of the before gone for succeeding ones, semi-independent parts interact dramatically while maintaining their separate identities in a multiple way. A conversation and argumentation.

In its final form, condensed and concentrated, this work is concerned with behavioral patterns that are defined as ever-changing appearances of figure and ground formations. They signal certain internal relationships that are not always immediately apparent. Although a shape maintains its constancy, color in its liminal stage might help us to navigate the instabilities of our current cultural moment. I think of it as a possible model for reconciliation of opposites of individualism and group action, joined in formal order.”

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FLATFILE ARTISTS (as of February 12, 2010):

an = animation, ab = artist book, au = audio
c = ceramic, do = design object, d = drawing
m = multiple, p = painting, ph = photography
pr = print, s = sculpture, v = video

American Abstract Artists (pr)

Justin Andrews (an, d, p)

Hartmut Böhm (d, pr)

Richard Bottwin  (do)

Sharon Brant (d)

Henry Brown (d)

Vicente Butron  (d)

Melanie Crader (d, p)

Mark Dagley (ab, m, pr)

Kasarian Dane (p)

Lynne Eastaway (d, p)

Gabriele Evertz (p)

Anthony Farrell  (p)

Daniel Feingold (p, d)

Linda Francis (pr)

Daniel Göttin (p, s)

Michelle Grabner  (d)

Michael Graeve (au, ph)

Lynne Harlow (a, d, pr)

Gilbert Hsiao (p)

Jeffrey Cortland Jones (p)

James Juszczyk (p, pr)

Steve Karlik (p)

Keira Kotler (pr, v)

Lotte Lyon (ph)

Rory MacArthur (d)

Rossana Martinez (d, s)

Juan Matos Capote (au)

Jackie Meier (p)

Douglas Melini (d)

Victoria Munro (c, ph)

Salvatore Panatteri  (s)

Mel Prest (d)

Ariane Roesch (ab, d)

Richard Roth (ab, d)

Erik Saxon (d)

Karen Schifano (d)

Sara Schnadt (ph)

Edward Shalala (ph)

David Thomas (p, ph)

Tilman (m)

Li-Trincere (d)

Jan van der Ploeg  (m, p)

Don Voisine  (pr)

Douglas Witmer (p)

Rachael Wren (p)

Patricia Zarate (ab, d)