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Online gallery presenting the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level. Founded in Brooklyn, 2003.

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We’re writing to share some BIG news with you! 📣

Last year we celebrated our 20th anniversary. We hope you had a chance to see our survey exhibition “Twenty” featuring works by more than 50 international artists from throughout our history, as well as our two subsequent solo exhibitions by Michael Brennan and Sharon Brant. 🥂

At the end of April, we plan to shut down our gallery space at 16 Main Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and move the gallery closer to home. Just prior to the start of the pandemic, we moved our family from Brooklyn to South Orange, New Jersey, which is located just west of Newark and easily accessible by train from Penn Station. South Orange and our surrounding communities have had a vibrant arts and cultural community for more than two centuries. 🚛

We are currently in the market for a new permanent home for the gallery, which will host our public exhibitions, educational programming, advocacy and philanthropic work, library and archives, book and editions, inventory storage, and so much more. We are also planning to make our new venue completely green and sustainable, especially in response to the acceleration of climate change. We will announce complete details about our new location as soon as we have them. ⏳

In the meantime, we are open for business on our website, our Artsy page, and by private appointment. We also plan to enrich the content available through on our website, share meaningful information by email and social media, host online conversations, and possibly organize an in-person curatorial project or two in the near term. 💪

But most of all, we would like to THANK ALL OF YOU — the artists, curators, writers, editors, publishers, gallerists, collectors, advisors, architects, designers, art historians, arts administrators, donors, our landlord Two Trees, and our audience worldwide for your extraordinary, unwavering support of our programming over these many years. We are grateful to you. 🙌

Onward! 🚀
Matthew & Rossana

* Our new interim mailing address is P.O. Box 1093, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA.

* Our email address remains the same as always: info@minusspace.com. by @minus_space

It’s been a minute, but we’re delighted to share that these two stunning works on paper from more than a decade ago by Beacon, NY-based artist Sharon Brant have found a new home in a private collection here in NYC. 😇

About her studio practice, Brant reflects, “Many times I wonder what a painting is; it mystifies me. Usually, I have to silence all other voices in my head when entering the studio. It’s when I have been painting for a while that I hear another voice, not mine, that speaks to me about the painting. Then I know I’m in the emotional space of the painting — a pause from the outside world that is the source of it all.”

For more than 5 decades, artist Sharon Brant (b. 1944) has produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous hard-edged paintings, works on paper, drawings, and reliefs.

She has exhibited her work internationally including in Europe, Australasia, Mexico, and the United States.

Brant has mounted 3 well-received solo exhibitions with us here at the gallery: Change and Recurrence (2024), Plenty (2018), and Sideswiped (2012).

Her work was included in our group exhibitions Twenty (2023), Untitled (Summer) (2019), Subvert City (2018), Brant / Brennan / Zinsser (2016), MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Alcalá in Oaxaca, Mexico (2012), and MINUS SPACE at MoMA PS1 (2008-2009).

Brant has also exhibited her work at museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rochester Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, among many others.

Artworks:

1. Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-22-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches

2. Sharon Brant, Drawing 2-2-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches

For further information about Sharon Brant and available artworks, visit her page on our website: minusspace.com/sharon-brant

#sharonbrant #abstractdrawing by @minus_space

Happy New Year & Peace on Earth! 🎉🥂🍾

We wish you a peaceful and prosperous 2026.

We’re truly grateful for your continuing interest in and support of our artists, exhibitions, projects, and programming over all these many years, but especially during this longer than expected time of transition for us.

We look forward to sharing regular news and updates with you again in the new year.

Warmest wishes,
Matthew + Rossana

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Image: A female Northern Cardinal in our South Orange, New Jersey garden (photo by Matthew)

“...perhaps because the winter is so long
and the sky so black-blue,
or perhaps because the heart narrows
as often as it opens —
I am grateful
that red bird comes all winter
firing up the landscape
as nothing else can do.”

— Excerpt from Red Bird by Mary Oliver by @minus_space

New line drawing in the studio!

Cotton fabric on paper , 17 x 12 inches.
 #lines
#textileart #lineart
#pinkglass
#stripes
#abstraction
#reductiveart
#minimalism
#linearabstraction
#abstractart
#colorandlight
#pkfgrantee

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@american_abstract_artists by @minus_space

Delighted that this wonderful work by Brooklyn color painter Gabriele Evertz — “Antidote Spectrum”, 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches, from her 2020 solo exhibition “Exaltation” here at the gallery — just found a new permanent home here in NYC. 😇

For further information and available paintings by Gabriele, message us here or at info@minusspace.com.

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/gabriele-evertz

#gabrieleevertz #brooklynartists #colorpainting #colortheory #colorabstraction #huntercollege #huntercolorschool by @minus_space

Opening Saturday 1/11, one week from tomorrow, from 3-6 @portal5info @minus_space @prattfineart @prattinvenice by @minus_space

We wish you a peaceful and prosperous 2025! 💫

We’re genuinely grateful for your continuing interest in and support of our artists, exhibitions, projects, and programming over all these many years, but especially during this time of transition for us.

We look forward to sharing regular gallery news and updates with you again in the new year.

Warmest wishes,
Matthew + Rossana by @minus_space

New book by Leslie Roberts: I will console you with language •📚 softcover • 17 x 24 cm • 32 pgs • 5-color • Published by CoMa ArtBooks • Link in Bio of @coma.artbooks to order the book.

Leslie Roberts transforms language into painting, capturing the flood of overlooked information around us. She records unnoticed words from sources like street signs, text messages, and emails, mapping them into forms that become illuminated lexicons of 21st-century life.

@lesliejaneroberts
courtesy of @minus_space
thank you @billynolan6780, @marcgijzen, @npndrukkers

#artbook #leslieroberts #minusspace #comaartbooks #corneliablatter #marcelhermans #booksbooker by @minus_space

Wednesday from our inventory. With the Summer Olympics in Paris just around the corner, we’re sharing this terrific, mixed media work on paper by artist Cris Gianakos made during the Athens Olympics two decades ago.🥇

Bio
Cris Gianakos (b. 1934 in New York, NY; lives in New York, NY, and Chania, Crete, Greece) has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including in the United States, Europe, Japan, Argentina, Canada, and Senegal.

His recent museum exhibitions include the Municipal Art Gallery (Chania, Crete, Greece), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Hamburg), Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, (Rethymnon, Greece), MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), MOMus Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection (Thessaloniki), MOMus Museum Alex Mylona (Athens), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Museum of Modern Art (New York), and Het Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten (Ghent).

Gianakos’s work is represented in dozens of public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Hammer Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian (Thessaloniki), Malmo Museum (Malmo), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), National Museum (Stockholm), MOMus Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection (Thessaloniki), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Museum of Modern Art (New York), and Watkita Museum of Art (Tokyo), among many others.

Artwork: Cris Gianakos, Olympic Gridlock, Athens Olympics 2004, Site/Roman Cistern, 9.20.2004, 2004, Oil pastel on laser prints on paper, framed, 12 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at info@minusspace.com.

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/cris-gianakos

#crisgianakos #sohoartists #postminimalism #installationart by @minus_space

Monday morning from our inventory. This beautiful recent painting by Brooklyn artist Gabriele Evertz entitled “Late Summer” (2021, Acrylic on canvas over wood, 18 x 18 inches / 46 x 46 cm), which features two shimmering gold stripes near the center of the work. 🙌

Bio
Gabriele Evertz (b. 1945 Berlin, Germany; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Her recent museum exhibitions include the South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), The Baker Museum (Naples, FL), Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT), Columbus Museum (Columbus, OH), Heckscher Museum (Huntington, NY), Hillwood Art Museum (Brookville, NY), Louisiana Art & Science Museum (Baton Rouge, LA), MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), Museo de Art Contemporáneo (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Osthaus Museum Hagen (Hagen, Germany), Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and Ulrich Museum (Wichita, KS).

In addition to her painting practice, Evertz was Professor of Art, Painting in Hunter College’s Department of Art & Art History, NYC from 1990-2018. She is a key protagonist in the renowned Hunter Color School, alongside other color painters, including Vincent Longo, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at info@minusspace.com.

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/gabriele-evertz

#gabrieleevertz #brooklynartists #colorpainting #colortheory #colorabstraction #huntercollege #huntercolorschool by @minus_space

Thursday morning from our inventory. Renowned New Zealand artist Julian Dashper’s (1960-2009) stunning cut cedar stretcher work “Untitled (2002)”. This work was included in his last solo exhibition “The Future” here at the gallery back in 2019. A few views of that show are included here.

Julian Dashper is one of the most renowned reductive artists of his generation and was one of the gallery’s earliest international collaborators, starting around the time of our inception in 2003. Working across a wide array of media for nearly three decades, Dashper produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous paintings, works on paper, installations, albums, performances, and ephemera.

Much of his work concerns the connection between abstract art and popular culture. One recurring theme is the reading of international Modernism in New Zealand art, and how in New Zealand, great Modernist works are known largely through reproduction. Another topic of investigation is the art historical canon – the rarified list of artists regarded by culture in general as great.

Bio
Julian Dashper was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on February 29, 1960 (leap year day) and died in Auckland on July 30, 2009. During his brief but influential career, he mounted more than 140 solo exhibitions of his work worldwide, including in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States.

In 2001, Dashper was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. His work is included in public collections internationally.

Artwork: Julian Dashper, Untitled (2002), 2001-2002, Cut cedar stretcher, 36 x 36 x 1.25 inches / 91.5 x 91.5 x 3.2 cm

For further information and pricing, message us here or at info@minusspace.com.

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/julian-dashper

#juliandashper #newzealandartists by @minus_space

Tuesday morning from our inventory. A highly-inventive, deconstructed black monochrome painting turned sculptural installation work by Bushwick, Brooklyn-based artist Vincent Como. Working in a broad array of media, the core focus of Como’s practice is the color black, as both a subject of inquiry and a material substance for making art works. The artist draws on divergent concepts from wide-ranging fields, including art history, color theory, astrophysics, science, alchemy, philosophy, religion, mythology, and the occult. 🖤

Bio
Vincent Como(b. 1975, Kittanning, PA; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his work throughout the United States and abroad, including in Mexico, England, and Austria. Here at the gallery, Como mounted the well-received solo exhibitions “The Negative Approach Operating System (For Intermediate to Advanced Practitioners)” (2019) and “Paradise Lost” (2013).

He also participated in the group exhibitions “Twenty” (2023), “Untitled (Summer)” (2019), “Subvert City” (2018), “On Paper” (2016), “Elements” (2015), and “Neither Here nor There but Anywhere and Everywhere” (2012), as well as our survey exhibition “MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales” at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Alcalá in Oaxaca, Mexico (2012).

Como’s work has been discussed in publications, such as Art 21 Online Magazine, Two Coats of Paint, The Creator’s Project, New American Paintings, The Wall Street Journal, ArtSlant, Progress Report, WagMag, The Boston Phoenix, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Journal, and Salt Lake Tribune, among others.

He is a founding member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run, non-profit based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with additional locations in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Como holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH).

Artwork: Vincent Como, The Temptation to Exist 005, 2013, Acrylic on canvas with wooden shelf, 22 x 14 x 29 inches / 56 x 36 x 74 cm.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at info@minusspace.com.

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/vincent-como

#vincentcomo #brooklynartists by @minus_space