Minus Space

MINUS SPACE is a contemporary online art gallery formerly based in Brooklyn, NYC, from 2003-2024. Contact us to schedule a conversation.

Founded in 2003, we present the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level. Our groundbreaking exhibitions are free and open to the public, and present the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level. We provide expert advisory services for the development of private, corporate, educational, and museum art collections. Our individual clients ran

ge from first-time art buyers to seasoned collectors developing private museums. We also have expertise in research, documentation, framing, installation, shipping, commissions, conservation, insurance, and appraisal of fine art.

12/31/2025

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

10/08/2025

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 [email protected].

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

12/31/2024

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

06/19/2024

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 [email protected].

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

06/17/2024

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 [email protected].

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

06/13/2024

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 [email protected].

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

06/11/2024

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 [email protected].

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

06/09/2024

Sunday morning from our inventory. A provocative, gold leaf and collage work on wooden panel by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Bibi Calderaro. This work was presented last summer in our anniversary exhibition “Twenty”. We hope you had a chance to see it! 🤩

Bio
Bibi Calderaro is an interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at museums such as MoMA PS1, Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio (all NYC), Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Fine Arts (both Argentina), and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain).

She is the recipient of awards from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Aaron Siskind Foundation, among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Art Museum at Princeton University (New Jersey), Museum of Modern Art, and National Museum of Fine Arts (both Argentina). Bibi holds an MFA from Queens College/CUNY, NY, and a BA from Wesleyan University, CT.

Artwork: Bibi Calderaro, Love~live, 2014, Collage and gold leaf on panel, 9 x 12 inches / 23 x 30.5 cm.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at [email protected].

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/bibi-calderaro

06/07/2024

A stunning, summery painting by Brooklyn-based painter Michael Brennan from our inventory. The title of this work “Cobalt Scarpa” references the Italian architect and designer Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) who was in turn influenced by all things Venice. Michael teaches in Venice each summer with Pratt Institute. In fact, he’s on his way there now! 💙

Bio
Michael Brennan (b. 1965, Pine Island, FL; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his paintings and works on paper nationally and internationally for the past three decades, including in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, China, Australia, and New Zealand.

Here at the gallery, he previously mounted four very well-received solo exhibitions – Floating Weeds (2023), Late Spring (2018), Grey Razor Paintings (2014), and Knife Paintings (2006) – and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including our major survey exhibition MINUS SPACE at MoMA PS1 in 2008-2009 and Twenty (2023).

Brennan’s work is included in collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynamics, Daimler AG, and Sony Corporation.

He holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Institute and a BA in Classics from the University of Florida.

He has taught at Pratt Institute since 1998 and is currently Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts Department. He has also previously taught at the School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and Cooper Union (all NYC).

Artwork: Michael Brennan, Cobalt Scarpa, 2023, Oil on canvas, 20 x 28 inches / 51 x 71 cm.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at [email protected].

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/michael-brennan

06/05/2024

As we search for our new home, we’d like to share with you some incredible artworks from our inventory. Today we highlight Beacon, NY-based artist Sharon Brant’s remarkable little work “White Painting #6” (2008), which is made of impastoed, white oil paint on canvas framed under green handmade stained glass. 🤍💚

Bio
Sharon Brant (b. 1944) has exhibited her work internationally for the past five decades, including in Europe, Australasia, Mexico, and the United States. Brant has exhibited at museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rochester Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, among many others.

Brant studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri from 1962-1965 and moved permanently to New York City in 1966. Her work was included several years later in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Painting Annual in 1972. She exhibited regularly with OK Harris (solo exhibitions 1970, 1972), A.I.R. Gallery (solo exhibitions 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996), and Elizabeth Moore Fine Art (solo exhibitions 2007, 2011).

Brant was a member of A.I.R. Gallery from 1989-1996, the first artist-run gallery for women in the United States founded in 1972. She has been a member of American Abstract Artists since 2004. In 2012, Brant was awarded a grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ARTnews, Art International, Arts Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times, among many other publications.

Artwork: Sharon Brant, White Painting #6, 2008, Oil on canvas under green handmade stained glass in wooden frame, 4.75 x 4.75 x 2.5 inches.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at [email protected].

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/sharon-brant

06/03/2024

Wow, it’s June already! After a month away from the gallery — and as we search for our new permanent home — we plan to share with you some incredible artworks from our inventory.

Today we highlight this remarkable, 20-year-old colored pencil drawing by our late collaborator and dear friend, the Berlin-based artist Hartmut Böhm (b. 1938 Kassel / d. 2021 Berlin). Hartmut was the first international artist to join our project right after its inception in 2003. 🙌

Bio
Hartmut Böhm is a leading proponent of European Concrete art and one of the most influential reductive artists of his generation. Born in Kassel, Germany in 1938, he studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste with Arnold Bode, founder and curator of Documenta. Böhm produced his first systems-based work in 1959. Several years later, his work was included in the seminal exhibition “Nouvelle Tendance: Propositions visuelles du mouvement international” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France in 1964. The exhibition heralded the new Op, Kinetic, Concrete, Zero, GRAV, Gruppo T and Gruppo N art movements and highlighted works that addressed the concept of movement as conveyed through serial repetition.

Böhm has mounted more than seventy solo and two-person exhibitions since 1964 and has participated in hundreds of group exhibitions at museums, galleries and non-profits internationally. His work is included in seventy public collections worldwide.

Artwork: Hartmut Böhm, Gegenüberstellung, horizontale farbige Linien, eng, Grey Green_Copper / Juxtaposition, horizontal colored lines, tight, Gray Green_Copper, 2004, Colored pencil on Fabriano watercolor paper, framed, 15 x 12 inches, unframed.

For further information and pricing, message us here or at [email protected].

Or visit: www.minusspace.com/hartmut-bohm

05/28/2024

We’re delighted to have contributed to this terrific commissioned project for an incredible client family in Brooklyn Heights. A big thanks to Laurie Blumenfeld Design for inviting us to collaborate and to Brownstoner for this lovely article. 🙌

This striking new diptych is by renowned NYC-based color painter Robert Swain. In addition to their ongoing studio work, many of our gallery artists are open to commissions as well. 🎨

For complete about Robert Swain and available paintings, visit: minusspace.com/robert-swain

For further info, message us here or at [email protected].

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