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Gabriele Evertz                                             

Born August 27, 1945, Rangsdorf, Germany.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Education 
MFA, Painting, Hunter College, CUNY 1990

BA, Art History, Magna Cum Laude, Hunter College, 1980

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022    PATH, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2020    Exaltation, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2018    Eight Flags: Gabriele Evertz, site-specific installation, Radevormwald, Germany

2017    Gabriele Evertz: Color Relativity, 499 Park Avenue / The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY

2015    The Gray Question, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2012    Optic Drive, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

          The Geometry of Color, Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead, NY

2011    Rapture, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2006    LIV, Benton Nyce Gallery, Greenport, NY

1998    Paintings, Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2023     Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA, 1936 – Present, ten-venue exhibition, ends Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT  (2020-2023)

2022      Harmony and Contrast: Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the Century, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Moving Perspective, EST Art Foundation, Leiden, the Netherlands

2021       STRIPES–the whole idea Online exhibition, AAA, Americanabstractartists.org/exhibitions/2020s/Stripes/
Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2020      Digital: AAA Prints 2012-2019, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA, 1936 – Present, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; traveling to The Baker Museum, Naples, FL; Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA; Peeler Art Center, De Paux University, Greencastle, IN; LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA; California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2019     Harmonies in Color, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

 New York Is Now, Platforms Project 2019, Athens, Greece
Continuity to Change: Recent History of American Abstraction, Tower Gallery,

The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
New York Centric, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

Digital: AAA Prints 2012 – 2019, The Gallery at The Visual and Performing Arts Center, Western CT State University, Danbury, CT

2018      Radiant Energy, curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ 
Blurring Boundaries: Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present, curated by Rebecca DiGiovanna, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky; Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN; Warner Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; The Baker Museum, Naples, FL; Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA; Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA; California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

PRIMARY, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ        

2017    Polychromy, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

Extended Process, Saturation Point, London, United Kingdom

 AAA 75th Anniversary Portfolio, Clear Lake Art Gallery, University of Houston, TX

2016    Painting Color, Glassell Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Chromatic Space, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC CUNY, NY

Polymorphous, The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Territory, Amagansett, NY

Art Du Jour, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

The Onward of Art: AAA 80th Anniversary Exhibition, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, NY

Visible Histories: Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of American Abstract Artists, curated by Max Weintraub, Abrons Art Center at Henry Street Settlement, NY

Color, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2015    Breaking Pattern, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

Geometric Obsession. American School 1965—2015, Museo de Art Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Re-Op: ‘Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Remains to be Seen, The Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Endless, Entire, AAA Exhibition, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti, Philadelphia, PA

AAA’s 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Breaking Pattern, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2014    A Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Color Refined, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Doppler Shift, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

To Leo, A Tribute from the American Abstract Artists, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

INTERVENTION, Flagge zeigen. Banner Project, Radevormwald, Germany

Sensation, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Sensory Impact, AAA@ Morgan Stanley HQ, Purchase, NY

Hard-Edge Abstraction: Paintings and Works on Paper, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery,

St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

Color as Abstraction, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

American Abstract Artists: AAA’s 75th Anniversary Print Portfolio, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2013    Dynamic Invention: American Abstract Artists (AAA), Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Hauptsache Grau, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany

Colors and Optics, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2012    Buzz, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Seeing Red, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

AAA International 75th Anniversary, Paris Concrete Gallery, Paris, France

Layers, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX

Minus Space, The Suburban, Chicago, IL

Check Mic, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2011    Pointing a Telescope at the Sun, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

AAA ABSTRACTION ∞ (Infinity), The Icebox Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

American Abstract Artists International, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany 

American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary, OK Harris Gallery, NY

It’s All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010    Long Island Biennial (inaugural exhibit), The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY

AAA International, Museum of the Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Otranto, Italy

Continuing Color Abstraction, The Painting Center, NY

From the Flatfiles, Minus Space Project Space, online exhibit, Brooklyn, NY

Paper Works, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009    Alternative Abstractions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Color, Southwest Minnesota State University Art Museum, Marshall, MN; Gallery 705, Stroudsberg, PA 

Color Exchange: Berlin - New York, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany; traveling to Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2008    Minus Space, MoMA P.S.1, Queens, NY

AAA: Tribute to Esphyr Slobodkina, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Taking Shape: Geometric Abstraction, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS

Spectrum, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Escape from New York, SNO Gallery, Sidney, Australia; traveling to RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2009); Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand (2010)

2007    Op Art: Then and Now, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

AAA: Continuum, St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, NJ

Gallery Artists: Adler & Co Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006    State of the Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY

Inaugural Exhibition, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT

2005    AAA: Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, NY

Ideal, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

Symbolism in Abstracts, Simon Liu gallery, Brooklyn, NY

The Faculty Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

2004    Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany

American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ

2003    The Thirty-Eighth Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton, NY

2002    Small Works, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

Abstract Dilemmas: AAA, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

2001    Footfalls, site-specific sculpture, Greenport, NY

Hit and Run, Woodward gallery, New York , NY

All Blues, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ

2000    Paper Invitational III, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY

Toward the New, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY

Annual Members Show, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, NY

Generations II: A Survey of Women Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Faculty Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

1999    Female Energy II, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY

1997    Abstraction Index curated by Vincent Longo, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1996    American Abstract Artists, 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Kean College, Union, NJ

Faculty Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Arguments, Fordham University, New York, NY

1994    New York Abstraction Painting, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY

Sworn Statements, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, NY

1993    Presentational Painting, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

1991     MFA: The First Decade, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY

1990    Small Works, Grey Galleries, New York University, New York, NY

 

Videos

2022

“”In the Studio with Gabriele Evertz,” Youtube, uploaded by American Abstract Artists, (1) In the Studio with Gabriele Evertz - YouTube
 

2020

“Gabriele Evertz EXALTATION at MINUS SPACE,” Youtube, uploaded by jameskalmroughtcut, (1) Gabriele Evertz EXALTATION at MINUS SPACE - YouTube
 

2018

“Gabriele Evertz: Eight Flags,” site specific installation, Radevormwald, Germany
 

2014

“Color Refined: TVC News,” Vimeo, uploaded by The Volunteer Channel, https://vimeo.com/111708128
 

2012

“Roesler Hotel #21 –buzz – curadoria/curated by vik muniz,” Youtube, uploaded by Galeria Nora Roesler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pG2yqD358U
 

2011

“Gabriele Evertz: Rapture at MINUS SPACE,” YouTube, uploaded by James Kalm Rough Cuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15g5slGO6k
 

2009

“Gabriele Evertz Paints A Color Study,” Vimeo, uploaded by Michael Feldman, https://vimeo.com/9498966
 

“Gabriele Evertz Documentary,” Vimeo, uploaded by Michael Feldman, https://vimeo.com/7908976
 

“Gabriele Evertz Time Lapse,” Vimeo, uploaded by Michael Feldman, https://vimeo.com/6254518
 

“Studio Visit: Gabriele Evertz,” Vimeo, uploaded by Stocan Films, https://vimeo.com/10307740

 

Exhibitions Curated

2017         Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, Ewing Gallery and The Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN; Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State, Murray, KN; College of Arts and Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL [catalogue/book]

2010       Visual Sensations: Robert Swain Paintings: 1967-2010, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY  [catalogue, reviews]

2009       Color Exchange: Berlin-New York, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany; Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY  [brochure]

2006       Presentational Painting III, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY [catalogue, reviews]

2003       Seeing Red: An International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, with Dr. Michael Fehr [catalogue, reviews]

1999       Set in Steel: The Sculpture of Antoni Milkowski, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY   [catalogue, reviews]

1997       Presentational Painting II, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY with Sanford Wurmfeld and Jesse Lambert [catalogue, reviews]

1996       Visual Arguments, Fordham University, New York, NY

Color Systems in Art and Science, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, with Klaus Stromer. [catalogue, review]

Mac Wells: Light into Being, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, with Robert Swain [exhibition catalogue]

1990         April Fools, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, with Beth Wesson

 

Essays Published
Gabriele Evertz, “PATH,” Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2022. [exhibition catalogue]
Gabriele Evertz, “Dual Current,” Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, UT, Knoxville, TN, 2017. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, “The Gray Question,” Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, ”Visual Sensations,” Visual Sensations: Robert Swain Paintings:  1967-2010, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY 2010. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, “Notes,” From the Flatfiles, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2010.

Gabriele Evertz, “Observation for a Young Painter,” Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, 2006. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, “Light Sensations in Painting and Nature,” Seeing Red, On Nonobjective Painting and Color Theory, Cologne, Germany, 2004. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, “Milkowski’s Muse,” Set in Steel: The Sculpture of Antoni Milkowski. Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY,1999. [exhibition catalogue]

Gabriele Evertz, “Indefinable Pleasures: Color in Presentational Painting,” Presentational Painting II, Hunter College, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, New York, NY, 1997. [exhibition catalogue]

 

Awards
2022

Participant, Artist Talk, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2016-

2022

TwoTrees Cultural Space Subsidy Program

2020

Participant, Artist Talk, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Participant, Artist Talk, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey

2015

PSC/CUNY Summer 2015 President’s Fund for Faculty Advancement

2012

The Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting, NYFA, NY

2011

Maturity in Art, Panel Discussion, Po Kim and Silvia Wald Foundation, NY

2005, 2003, 2002

DAAD Grant

2003

Participant, Color as Experience, a two-day symposium, Goethe Institut, New York, NY

2001

NEA, East End Arts Council

1990

William Graf Travel Abroad Scholarship Award

PSY-CUNY Research Grant: Color Systems

Memberships

Whitney Museum of American Art
Minus Space

American Abstract Artists
Geoform.net

Select Public Collections
The Art in Embassies Program of the US Dept. of State

The British Museum, London, England 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Columbus Museum of Art, OH

Ewing Gallery, UT Knoxville, TN

Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MI

Karl-Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany

MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The Museum of Modern Art, Library Special Collection, NY
The Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Germany

The New York Public Library, NY

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany

The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

The Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ

Stiftung für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland  

St. Lawrence University Art Museum, Canton, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Academic Positions
Professor Emerita, Hunter College, CUNY, 2018

Professor Hunter College, CUNY, Department of Art and Art History, 1990-2018

Associate Chair of Studio Art, 2013-2016
Visiting Critic, Yale School of Architecture, 2002
External Examiner, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands, 2001

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