March 29 - May 4, 2013
Alan Uglow, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
The present exhibition includes Standard paintings from the mid-1990s and Portrait(s) of a Standard from 2000, the latter, large-format silkscreens depicting the Standard(s) at an angle. Both the paintings and prints are installed on wooden blocks.
Fernando Mastrangelo: Black Sculpture, Charest-Weinberg, Miami, FL
For “Black Sculpture,” Mastrangelo focuses on art history for the first time. After creating exact molds based on the work of Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt, Mastrangelo casts his reliefs out of compacted gunpowder. The pieces teeter on the precipice of annihilation; by forging the work of canonical artists in gunpowder, Mastrangelo simultaneously pays homage to the work of earlier iconoclasts and seeks to destroy them for himself.
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.
Byron Kim, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Byron Kim, Untitled (for J.B.), 2010 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 72 inches James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Byron Kim’s recent work—a series of large-scale paintings inspired by the sky at night in the city. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 4th and runs through Saturday, December 22nd. Byron Kim: Dark, a 56-page hard-cover catalog including 15 color plates of the new work along with essays by [...]
Ad Reinhardt: Works from 1935-1945, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
A rare opportunity to view an unexamined period of Reinhardt’s career with the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered early body of work, featuring fifty geometric paintings and works on paper, ranging from bold collage to vibrant gouache. Influenced by Cubism filtered through the lens of American artists such as Stuart Davis and Charles Sheeler, the works reveal the reductionist process that led Reinhardt to his iconic monochromes.
Ted Stamm: Paintings
September 24 - October 29, 2011
MINUS SPACE is delighted to present the exhibition Ted Stamm: Paintings, an overview of paintings, works on paper, street interventions, and other materials by the late NYC-based abstract painter. Prior to his unexpected death from heart failure in 1984, Stamm created a substantial, mature body of work that was at once responsive to the past, indicative of his time, and prescient of the future.
Kris Scheifele: Cast, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Kris Scheifele, Window Contortion, 2010 Acrylic paint and acetate 41 x 18 x 3 inches February 18 – March 20, 2011 My most recent project is a series entitled The Contortions. Each piece is made entirely of layer upon layer of acrylic paint. The paint is applied methodically to a wooden panel support until it reaches a thickness of up to a half-inch. Then, it is pulled up from the support and cut with a [...]
László Ottó: Bilder des Anfangs, dr. julius, Berlin, Germany
Work by László Ottó February 18 – March 26, 2011 dr. julius | ap is pleased to present “Bilder des Anfangs” [Images of the Beginning] by Hungarian artist László Ottó, an exihibition which features recent paintings made from various shades of black pigment. The artist writes: “As a European my work is western, but at the same time I am consciously relating to East thought. Existential questions of life and death are the subject of [...]
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension, 1915 Oil on canvas 26 x 17 inches March 2 – April 30, 2011 I have transformed myself into the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish-filled pool of Academic Art. I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and escaped from the circle of things, from the horizon-ring which confines the artist and the forms of nature. –Kazimir [...]
VIEWLIST: Hunter, Color, Abstraction, Conceived by Matthew Deleget
Our fourth VIEWLIST exhibition is conceived by artist and MINUS SPACE director Matthew Deleget.
Ever since I was a graduate student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the mid-1990s, I've been thinking about another art school on the other side of the East River: Hunter College. Since at least the 1950s, Hunter has been and continues to be one of the leading champions of color and abstraction, not to mention painting, among art schools in the United States. Hunter remains a beacon in today's post-everything art world.
Becoming Modern in America: Life Magazine 1936-1972 & New Paintings by Loren Munk
December 11, 2010 - January 29, 2011
MINUS SPACE is pleased to announce the exhibition Becoming Modern in America. The twofold exhibition will feature more than 20 vintage issues of Life magazine spanning the years 1936-1972, as well as two recent paintings by Brooklyn, New York-based painter Loren Munk.
Christopher Dean: Twelve Rules for a New Academy (gender & sexuality), Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Artist Christopher Dean June 17-26, 2010 Twelve Rules for a New Academy (gender & sexuality) is the title of Christopher Deans forthcoming exhibition at Factory 49, Sydney. The title directly references Ad Reinhardt’s 1953 manifesto Twelve Rules for a New Academy, a statement that maps out the rights and wrongs of art. Rather than presenting the art going public with a list of objective commandments Deans exhibition speaks from a more intimate and subjective position. [...]
John Griefen: Recent Paintings, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY
Installation view March 4 – May 1, 2010 One might think it easier to photographically reproduce a recent monochromatic painting by John Griefen than a 50’s painting by Ad Reinhardt, as the acrylic paint on a Griefen is textured and thick in contrast to Reinhardt’s matte application. But both Reinhardt and Griefen defy reproduction, and that is just one of the things they have in common. Both demand that the viewer powerfully and authentically engage [...]
Recent Brooklyn Rail Posts
Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1961-62 Artificial fiber, 24 3/16 × 18 1/8 inches Photo Archivio Opera Piero Manzoni Courtesy Gagosian Gallery March 2009 The Last Breath of Piero Manzoni, by Robert C. Morgan Chris Martin: Works on Paper at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, by John Yau Imi Knoebel at Mary Boone Gallery, by John Yau Philip Guston: 1954-1958 at L&M Arts, by John Yau The Art World on Facebook: A Primer, by Sharon L. Butler [...]
Michelle Grabner: Silverpoint Drawings with Guest Mobile, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 14 – May 3, 2009 The Green Gallery East presents new silverpoint drawings by Michelle Grabner with a mobile by Brad Killam. Michelle Grabner’s paintings and silverpoints index the essentialism of time. Created with lines, marks, ticks, points, and dots Grabner’s compositions are simply organized, accumulated, and sequenced, thus leaving virtually no space for the imagination or invention. There is nothing signified or expressed – nothing to be interpreted – only a methodical indication [...]
Art and Architecture: An Interview with Brad Cloepfi (Part I), PORT, August 11, 2008
Allied Works Architecture Maryhill Overlook, 1999 Photo by Sally Schoolmaster “Brad Cloepfil is the principal of Allied Works Architecture in Portland, Oregon. Allied Works is a nationally recognized architecture firm that has recently completed projects like the extension to the Seattle Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and is currently finishing the Museum of Art & Design at 2 Columbus Circle in New York. PORT recently sat down with him to [...]
Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Photo by Kay Bell Reynal Several works by legendary American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), never shown in a U.S. museum before, will debut this winter at The Rose Art Museum. An extraordinary body of work created by Hans Hofmann for the architect Josep Sert’s 1950 city plan called the Chimbote Project is the genesis for this exhibition. The nine painting studies Hofmann produced for a series of murals in this Peruvian city form [...]
Recent Brooklyn Rail Posts
Ad Reinhardt, Drawing, 1946 December 2008 / January 2009 Reply to Irving Sandler, by Michael Corris Katia Santibañez: New Work, by Phong Bui Ad Reinhardt’s Emblematic Drawings In Their Moment, by Joseph Masheck Tibor Freund: Motion in Paintings, by Craig Olson Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone, by Anne Byrd Ronald Bladen: Sculpture of the 1960s and 70s, by Ben La Rocco November 2008 Re: Michael Corris In Conversation with Joan Waltemath on [...]
Edges of Darkness, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Installation view September 5 — October 25, 2008 The exhibition Edges of Darkness at Hamish Morrison Galerie showcases artists working from various different aesthetic angles using black. From artists whose names are synonymous with black such as Ad Reinhardt, to others, most strikingly the Spanish painter Prudencio Irazabal, whose focus has been the antithesis to black – light and colour. As the title suggests, rather than a severe, minimilist or monochromatic standpoint it is [...]
Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Walter Rosenblum. Thomas Hess papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution July 11 — September 14, 2008 Ad Reinhardt’s Black Painting, 1960–66 (1960–66) was donated to the Guggenheim Museum in 2000 by AXA Art Insurance Corporation as a study painting after it was deemed irreparably damaged. Over the course of seven years, conservators, scientists, curators, and artists collaborated to examine the issues surrounding the conservation of this painting, including the inherent vulnerability of monochromatic [...]
Anonima Group Archive
The American artist collaborative, Anonima Group, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960 by Ernst Benkert, Francis Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski. Propelled by their rejection of the cult of the individual ego and automatic style of the Abstract Expressionists, the artists worked collaboratively on grid-based, spatially fluctuating drawings and paintings that were precise investigations of the scientific phenomena and psychology of optical perception. The work was accompanied by writings: proposals, projects and manifestos – [...]
Focus: Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
March 7, 2008 – ongoing This installation, drawn from the Museum’s collection of paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, focuses specifically on the fertile years between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, during which each artist identified the style and format that would engage him for the rest of his career. Reinhardt’s and Rothko’s ideas about form and color challenged and reconsidered European artistic traditions and philosophies, giving rise to a unique [...]
Ad Reinhardt, by Michael Corris, Reaktion Books, January 2008, £25.00
Purchase on Amazon.com Born in Buffalo, New York, Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) was a highly influential pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. His influence as teacher, writer, activist and critic was as significant as his art – Reinhardt taught at Brooklyn College from 1947 to 1967, and during this time also lectured at the California School of Fine Arts, the University of Wyoming, Yale University and Hunter College, New York. In latter times Ad Reinhardt [...]
Joseph Marioni at Peter Blum Gallery, by Michael Brennan
Although he has shown extensively in Europe for many years, it’s only in the past decade, when he began showing with Peter Blum, that his stature in America has grown large in a more public way. This, despite the fact that Marioni exhibited his work at Bykert Gallery in the 70’s, was tapped by Brice Marden for a show at Artists Space, and was included in a recent Whitney Biennial. However, it took the New [...]
Interview with Harmut Böhm, by Matthew Deleget
Hartmut Böhm, Quadratrelief 32, 1968 Plexiglas, 127 x 127 x 5.5 cm Peter C. Ruppert Collection Museum im Kultur-speicher, Würzburg, Germany The following interview was published on MINUS SPACE in February 2004 in conjunction with Hartmut Böhm’s spotlight exhibition. Matthew Deleget: I would like to begin our interview – your first published in English – with a brief discussion of the art climate in Germany directly following World War II. You were born in Kassel, [...]