'''Minus Space''' is an art gallery located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. It specializes in abstract art and reductive art.
==History== Minus Space began as an online curatorial and critical project presenting reductive and concept based art.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Minus Space|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/minus-space|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Time Out New York|date=12 January 2011 |language=en-US}}</ref> Reductive art includes geometric abstraction, artwork that deals with repetition, monochrome or limited color, seriality.<ref name=brennan>''Neighborhood Beat'': Profile on Minus Space & Michael Brennan, BCAT / Brooklyn Community Access Television, January 25, February 14, February 19, and February 23, 2007, Episode 31</ref> and minimalism.<ref>Kalm, James. "A Boom Grows in Brooklyn", ''The Brooklyn Rail'', July 2004.</ref> It is also characterized by the use of plain-spoken materials, precise craftsmanship and intellectual rigor.<ref name=ps1>''Minus Space: The Art of Reduction'', P.S. 1 Newspaper, Fall / Winter 2008, p. 2.</ref> It was launched as an online curatorial project in August 2003 by Brooklyn artists Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez, and gradually developed into a showcase for dozens of artists.<ref>Maine, Stephen. “Dateline Brooklyn”, ''Artnet Magazine'', April 15, 2005.</ref> They began by putting portfolios and curating exhibitions online. Minus Space published interviews of artists, reviews and critical essays. At this point project was only online, literally ''minus space''.<ref name=brennan/>
Minus Space then started to produce physical exhibitions in their Brooklyn project space.<ref name=brennan/> These included one person shows of abstract painting, installations and performance art.<ref name=mshome>Minus Space, home page. 17 June 2008. <www.minusspace.com/></ref> In addition they began to curate exhibitions nationally and internationally at universities, galleries, artist-run spaces and nonprofit spaces located in Manhattan; St. Mary's City, Maryland; Sydney, Australia;<ref name=brennan/> Houston, Texas;<ref name=ml>''Machine Learning'', exhibition catalog, The Boyden Gallery of St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Painting Center, Gallery Sonja Roesch and Minus Space, 2007. inside cover.</ref> Brussels, Belgium.<ref name=mshome/>
Minus Space opened their initial gallery space at 98 Fourth Street in Gowanus in April 2006.<ref name=maine>Maine, Stephen. “The Reductive Expands: Minus Space will move from 175 feet in Gowanus to a Dumbo loft”, Artcritical, September 12, 2011.</ref> In September 2011, they relocated to a gallery-filled building at 111 Front Street in Dumbo.<ref name=maine/>
Hyperallergic selected the Minus Space exhibition ''Roberta Allen: Works from the 1970s'' as "Best of 2014: Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/170729/best-of-2014-our-top-10-brooklyn-art-shows/|title=Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows|date=2014-12-24|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref>
== Exhibitions and curatorial projects == In 2008, MoMA PS1 exhibited ''Minus Space – The Art of Reduction'', a survey of 54 artists from 14 countries affiliated with Minus Space. The exhibition was curated by Phong Bui, publisher of the Brooklyn Rail and P.S. 1 curatorial advisor. The exhibition marked the 5th anniversary of Minus Space.<ref>Minus Space, home <www.minusspace.com/index.htm#projectspace></ref>
In 2008 Minus Space also curated an exhibit to ''re-present'' abstract shaped canvas paintings as new, made by Mark Dagley first shown with Tony Shafrazi Gallery 20 years earlier in 1987. Most of the exhibition of was painted in William S. Burroughs Bunker in the Bowery in New York City.<ref>''Mark Dagley'', exhibition catalog, Minus Space, Abaton Book Company, 2008. p. 13.</ref>
They curated a traveling exhibition ''Machine Learning'' which was shown at the Boyden Gallery of St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Painting Center in New York City, Gallery Sonja Roesch in Houston, TX in 2007 and 2008.<ref name=ml/> The title of the exhibition was inspired by a subfield of artificial intelligence concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to ''learn''. Machine learning algorithms recognize patterns within massive sets of data. Real world applications include the internet search engine. This exhibition examined new pattern painting in the information age.<ref>''Machine Learning'', p. 2.</ref>
Minus Space organized the group exhibition, Escape from New York, which originated at Sydney Non Objective, Sydney, Australia, in 2007, later traveled to Curtin University in Perth in 2008, Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University in Melbourne in 2009, and then to The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand in 2010.<ref>SNO. <www.sno.org.au/s/SNO_30_catalog.pdf></ref>
In 2009, Minus Space exhibited album covers designed by Josef Albers along with ephemera and documentation from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation demonstrating the record jackets as firsthand projects in abstract applied art.<ref>Masheck, Joseph. “Albers’ Record Jackets: Doing an Artful Job”, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009/January 2010.</ref>
In 2011, Minus Space exhibited a collection of vintage issues of Life (magazine) representing the magazine's historical coverage of modern art, including the 1949 article, “Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?,” alongside works by the artist Loren Munk addressing both the history of New York School (art) and the field of art criticism.<ref>Panero, James. “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, January 2011.</ref>
In 2013, Minus Space organized, in collaboration with artist John Zinsser, a large survey exhibition examining the history and legacy of gallerist Julian Pretto (1945-1995) and his downtown New York galleries, active during the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s. The exhibition featured the work of more than 40 national and international artists in an array of different media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and poetry.<ref>Russeth, Andrew. "Julian Pretto Gallery at Minus Space," Gallerist / The New York Observer, October 1, 2013.</ref>
==Artists== Represented artists and estates:<ref name=artists>Minus Space. 1 April 2015.<http://www.minusspace.com/artists/></ref> {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} * Roberta Allen * Hartmut Böhm * Sharon Brant * Michael Brennan * Bibi Calderaro * Vincent Como * Mark Dagley * Julian Dashper * Gabriele Evertz * Linda Francis * Cris Gianakos * Daniel Göttin * Julio Grinblatt * Lynne Harlow {{col-2}} * Gilbert Hsiao * Ward Jackson * Kyle Jenkins * Russell Maltz * John Nixon * Carrie Pollack * Leslie Roberts * Michael Rouillard * Erik Saxon * Robert Swain * Tilman * Li Trincere * Jan van der Ploeg * Sanford Wurmfeld {{col-end}}
Minus Space has also exhibited work by Josef Albers,<ref name=maine/> Rene Pierre Allain,<ref name=Pobric>Pobric, Pac. “Julian Pretto Gallery”, The Brooklyn Rail, October 3, 2013.</ref> Taka Amano,<ref name=Pobric/> Carl Andre,<ref name=Pobric/> Stephen Antonakos,<ref name=Pobric/> Robert Barry (artist),<ref name=Pobric/> Tom Brazelton,<ref name=Pobric/> Farrell Brickhouse,<ref name=Pobric/> Rosemarie Castoro,<ref name=Pobric/> Peter Downsbrough,<ref name=Pobric/> Kathy Drasher,<ref name=Pobric/> Anoka Faruqee,<ref name=Micchelli>Micchelli, Thomas. "Confounding the Eye: 'Breaking Pattern' at Minus Space", Hyperallergic, March 28, 2015.</ref> Gail Fitzgerald,<ref name=Pobric/> Suzan Frecon,<ref name=Pobric/> Michelle Grabner,<ref name=Butler>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Sharon|title=At Minus Space, Nothing is Everything|publisher=Two Coats of Paint|date=June 30, 2012|url=http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/06/minus-space-nothing-is-everthing.html|access-date=April 8, 2015}}</ref> Christian Haub,<ref name=Pobric/> Nancy Haynes,<ref name=Pobric/> Marcia Hafif,<ref name=Pobric/> Betsy Kaufman,<ref name=Pobric/> Melissa Kretschmer,<ref name=Pobric/> Gary Lang,<ref name=Pobric/> Ellen Lanyon,<ref name=Pobric/> Christopher Lea,<ref name=Pobric/> Julian Lethbridge,<ref name=Pobric/> Daniel Levine,<ref name=Pobric/> Sol LeWitt,<ref name=Pobric/> Tom Martinelli,<ref name=Pobric/> Douglas Melini,<ref name=Micchelli/> Gregory Montreuil,<ref name=Pobric/> Olivier Mosset,<ref name=Pobric/> Victoria Munro,<ref name=Butler/> Mary Obering,<ref name=Pobric/> Antonella Piemontese,<ref name=Pobric/> Donald Powley,<ref name=Pobric/> Lucio Pozzi,<ref name=Pobric/> Daniel Reynolds,<ref name=Pobric/> Stephen Rosenthal,<ref name=Pobric/> Michael Scott,<ref name=Micchelli/> DM Simons,<ref name=Pobric/> Phil Sims,<ref name=Pobric/> Cary Smith,<ref name=Pobric/> Ted Stamm,<ref name=maine/> Steven Steinman,<ref name=Pobric/> Ted Victoria,<ref name=Pobric/> Merrill Wagner,<ref name=Pobric/> Oliver Wasow,<ref name=Pobric/> Stephen Westfall.<ref name=Pobric/> Robert Yasuda,<ref name=Pobric/> and John Zinsser<ref name=Pobric/>
==Presence online== Minus Space has a space on the internet enabling it to collaborate with other institutions.<ref>MacAdam, Barbara A. “Tilman”, ''ARTnews'', Jan 2008: 132.</ref> The web site has an online log that functions as a web portal for information on exhibitions of reductive art internationally. There is also a comprehensive directory of related web sites for reductive art including galleries, museums and related publications, a directory of artists affiliated with Minus Space, and also artist interviews.<ref name=artists/>
Minus Space maintains a comprehensive chronology of reductive and concept-based art. The chronology includes major events, exhibitions, and writings in the development of reductive and concept-based art in Europe, South and North America from 1800 to date.<ref name=ps1/>
== Further reading == * {{cite book| first=Sanford |last=Wurmfeld |title=Color Seminar |publisher=Minus Space |publication-place=New York |isbn=978-0-578-55433-4 |date=2019 }} * {{cite book| author1=Mary Birmingham |author2=Gabriele Evertz |author3=Matthew Deleget |title=Gabriele Evertz: Exaltation. Exhibition Catalog |publisher=Minus-Space |place=New York |isbn=978-0-578-65111-8 |date=2020}}
==Footnotes== {{reflist}}
== References == * MacAdam, Barbara A. “Tilman”, ''ARTnews'', Jan 2008: 132. * Maine, Stephen. “Dateline Brooklyn”, ''Artnet Magazine'', April 15, 2005. * Kalm, James. "A Boom Grows in Brooklyn", ''The Brooklyn Rail'', July 2004. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121193142/http://www.briconline.org/bcat/popups/neighborhoodbeat/bococa/episode31.asp ''Neighborhood Beat'': Profile on Minus Space & Michael Brennan], BCAT / Brooklyn Community Access Television, Jan. 25, Feb. 14, Feb. 19 & Feb. 23, 2007, Episode 31 * ''Machine Learning'', exhibition catalog, The Boyden Gallery of St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Painting Center, Gallery Sonja Roesch and Minus Space, 2007. Essay by Matthew Deleget. {{ISBN|978-0-615-16391-8}} * ''Mark Dagley'', exhibition catalog, Minus Space, Abaton Book Company, 2008. Essays by Matthew Deleget and Nora Griffin, interview by Don Voisine. {{ISBN|0-9677326-9-7}} * Minus Space. 17 June 2008. <www.minusspace.com> * ''Minus Space: The Art of Reduction'', P.S. 1 Newspaper, Fall / Winter 2008, p. 2.
==External links== * [http://www.minusspace.com/ Minus Space] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKYP92ZJgRU ''Immersive Color'' at Minus Space 2021], conversation with artist Robert Swain on the occasion of his new exhibition
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