Robert Swain: Color Energy, by Hovey Brock
The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2015
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.
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Phong Bui, Portrait of Thomas Nozkowski, 2010 Pencil on paper In Conversation: Thomas Nozkowski with John Yau Art Books in Review: “Breaking Through: Richard Bellamy and the Green Gallery, 1960 – 1965 / Twenty-Three Interviews”, Author: Erik La Prade, Midmarch Arts Press, 2010, by Greg Lindquist Brooklyn Dispatches: Funkster Formalism, Crap Constructivism, by James Kalm Kim Uchiyama: Archaeo, by Stephanie Buhmann Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, by Greg Lindquist
Recent Brooklyn Rail Articles
Installation view of James Hyde, Stuart Davis Group Pierogi / The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY, 2010 James Hyde with Phong Bui David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui, by Phong Bui Donald Judd and 101 Spring Street at Nicholas Robinson Gallery, by Phong Bui
Source, The Halls at Bowling Green/CUNY, New York, NY
Mark Dagley, Coded Grid (above) Acrylic on canvas, 98 x 13 inches Mark Dagley, Deathtrip (below) Charcoal on paper, 48 x 36 inches April 22 – May 28, 2010 Curated by Susan Ross and Melissa Staiger Participating Artists: Glen Cunningham, Mark Dagley, Laura Fayer, Molly Herman, Lori Kirkbride, Ben LaRocco, Rachael Wren City College’s Center for Worker Education will host the third in its “Halls at Bowling Green” series of shows starting on April 22nd, according […]
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010), by Mark Dagley, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2010
Kenneth Noland staining ‘Horizontal Stripe’ paper piece at the paper mill Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, NY, 1978 Photographer: Lindsay Green “I’ve followed other artists gratefully and I hope I’ve also followed my own path….sometimes along side other artists. I’ve also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist. I love art and I love the life of art and I only wish that the real life of art […]
Rudolf de Crignis: Grays and Blues, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Rudolf de Crignis, Painting No. 97—23 (Ultramarine Blue, Zinc White, Ruby Lake), 1997 Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches May 21 – July 3, 2009 Lawrence Markey presents an exhibition of paintings by Rudolf de Crignis (1948–2006), entitled grays and blues. This is the first exhibition of de Crignis’ work at Lawrence Markey. The exhibition grays and blues focuses on five oil paintings from 1997 to 2004. During this period, de Crignis’ primary […]
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 […]
Minus Space at P.S.1 Extended
Installation in cafe space Exhibition in cafe space continues until May 2009. (Boiler Room exhibition closed on January 26, 2009.) MINUS SPACE Curated by Phong Bui P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center A Museum of Modern Art Affiliate Long Island City, NY The exhibition is curated by artist, Brooklyn Rail publisher, and P.S.1. Curatorial Advisor Phong Bui, and includes the work of 54 artists from 14 countries. The exhibition marks MINUS SPACE’s 5th anniversary. […]
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 […]
Minus Space, Curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / A Museum of Modern Art Affiliate, Long Island City, NY
October 19, 2008 - May 4, 2009
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce our exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. P.S.1 is one of the oldest and largest non-profit arts centers in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by artist, Brooklyn Rail publisher, and P.S.1. Curatorial Advisor Phong Bui, and includes the work of 54 artists from 14 countries. The exhibition marks MINUS SPACE's 5th anniversary.
Lisa Hamilton, Jane Kim / Thrust Projects, New York, NY
Lisa Hamilton, Open Secret, 2008 Oil on canvas, 36 x 32 inches October 17 — November 30, 2008 Jane Kim / Thrust Projects presents works by New York abstract painter Lisa Hamilton. Lisa Hamilton’s work is focused on the process of geometric constructions of color, shape, and line with an assertion of the materiality of paint. Building up and stripping down to the essential elements allows Hamilton to create and juxtapose opposing visual […]
Recent Brooklyn Rail Posts
July 2008 Meeting Imi and Blinky at Dia: Beacon, by Sharon Butler Philip Guston Works on Paper, by John Yau June 2008 David Novros with Phong Bui, by Phong Bui Wynn Kramarsky with William Corbett, by William Corbett Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), by Dorothea Rockburne & Nan Rosenthal Mel Bochner, by David Markus Milton Resnick: A Question of Seeing, by Thomas Micchelli Weltanschauung and Abstract Painting, by Robert C. Morgan Rebecca Horn: […]
Chris Martin, with Craig Olsen, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2008
Portrait of the artist by Phong Bui In the midst of preparations for his current exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery in Chelsea ( January 26th–March 1, 2008), Chris Martin welcomed painter and Rail contributing writer Craig Olson to his Williamsburg studio to discuss his life and work.
Robert Barry: NOT THE ART OF WAR, BUT ART AND WAR, by Robert C. Morgan, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2007-January 2008
Robert Barry, Art and War, 2007 21 latex words, 12 inch letter height “Robert Barry is one of the most convincing conceptualists from the era of the late sixties and seventies. His word lists, wall and window pieces, his sound recordings, and DVD and slide projections, are focused on one central idea: language. Like an asterisk spinning through the void of space and time, Barry’s linguistic orientation traverses print and virtual imagery. Isolated […]
The Geometry of Hope, by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2007-January 2008
Joaquín Torres-García, Composición constructiva 16, 1943 Oil on cardboard “There is a spidered but unbroken vein feeding cannibals (Yes, I said that) into Concrete Art, snaking through the 20th century from the deepest reaches of the Amazon River in Brazil. It was there, in 1928, that Oswaldo de Andrade unleashed his bloodcurdling Anthropophagous Manifesto, declaring that “We are concrete”, while claiming kinship with the Tupi cannibals and threatening to devour all of Western […]
Katy Siegel and David Reed with Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007
(photo credit: Phong Bui) Katy Siegel and artist David Reed discuss their groundbreaking exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 at the National Academy Museum in New York with Brooklyn Rail publisher Phong Bui.
Marcia Tucker 1940-2006, by Carol Becker, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007
(photo credit: Barbara Parmet) Carol Becker remembers maverick curator Marcia Tucker, former Whitney Museum curator (1969-1977) and founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (1977-1999) in New York.
Constantly Blue Sky, Never a Cloud: On Rudolf De Crignis, 1948-2006, by John Zinsser, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007
(photo credit: Michael Paoletta) Artist John Zinsser recalls his long-term friendship with artist Rudolf De Crignis.
Another Silent Attack, by Franck Andre Jamme
Cover Image by MINUS SPACE artist Don Voisine Published by The Brooklyn Rail & Black Square Editions, 2006
George Ortman at Mitchell Algus Gallery, by Jim Long
In The Brooklyn Rail, New York artist Jim Long reviews George Ortman’s exhibition at Mitchell Algus Gallery, which included 14 pieces spanning 48 years. “If you weight a piece of string and submerge it in a glass of water saturated with dissolved sugar, over a period of hours you’ll see crystals, “rock candy,” start to form…”