Born in Berlin, Germany and lives in Brooklyn, New York and Greenport, New York.
Selected Exhibitions since 2000
2011
Gabriele Evertz: Rapture at MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, New York
American Abstract Artists, Berlin, Germany
It's All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010
Inaugural Long Island Biennial, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, July 31 - September 26, 2010.
American Abstract Artists International, Museum of the Aragonese Castle of Otranto, Italy, June 15 - 30, 2010.
Paperworks, Janet Kurnatowski, January - February 21, 2010.
Continuing Color Abstractions, The Painting Center, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, New York, NY, April 13 - May 8, 2010.
Escape from New York, The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, April 19 - May 8, 2010.
Sublime Visual Terror, Adler & Co., 77 Geary Street, Suite #201, San Francisco, CA 94108, 5 November - 16 January 2010.
From the Flatfiles: Gabriele Evertz, featured online exhibition, MinusSpace, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Escape from New York, Project Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, May 8 - 29, 2009.
MINUS SPACE, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, Long Island City, NY. On view until 4 May 2009.
Color Exchange: Berlin-New York, travelling group exhibition, Galerie Parterre, Berlin and Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY, March 27 - April 26, 2009.
Alternative Abstractions, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, March 14 - April 21, 2009.
Color, SW Minnesota State University Art Museum, Minnesota, March 1 - April 15, 2009.
It's a Wonderful Life,
SideshowGallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
American Abstract Artists: Tribute to Espyhr Slobodkina, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Taking Shape: Geometric Abstraction from the Collection, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
Spectrum, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, NY
Spring Selections, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Escape from New York, SNO Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Op Art: Then and Now, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Radial, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
Continuum, St. Peter's College, NJ
2006
State of the Art, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2005
Optical Simulations, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Ideal, Metaphor Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Symbolism in Abstracts, Simon Liu Gallery, NY
2004
Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Germany
American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum, NJ
2003
The Thirty-Eighth Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, NY
2001
Footfalls, site specific sculpture, NY
Hit and Run, Woodward Gallery, NY
Ann Kolb Gallery, NY (solo show)
2000
Ann Kolb Gallery, NY (solo show)
Paper Invitational III, Woodward Gallery, NY
Paintings, Artsites Gallery, NY (solo show)
Toward the New, Hillwood Art Museum, NY
Bibliography
2011
Gabriele Evertz: Rapture at MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, New York
The Reductive Expands, by Stephen Maine,
Art Critical, September 12, 2011
Best in Show:"Pointing a Telescope at the Sun" at MINUS SPACE, by Robert Shuster,
Village Voice, August 24, 2011
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun at MINUS SPACE , by Caleb de Jong. Thoughts That Cure Radically blog, August 24, 2011
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun at MINUS SPACE,
NY Arts Magazine, Summer 2011
Eye to the Optical Sky, by Noah Dillon,
ArtSlant, August, 2011
Gallery Picks: August 2011, SpruceStar Studio, August 3, 2011
2010
"Visual Sensations,"
Visual Sensations, The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967-2010, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
"From the Flatfiles,"
MinusSpace, Project Space, March 2010
2006
"Observations for a Young Painter," Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
2004
"Light Sensations in Painting and Nature,"
Seeing Red: An International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Exhibition Catalog
Publications
2011
Gabriele Evertz: Rapture at MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, New York
The Reductive Expands, by Stephen Maine,
Art Critical, September 12, 2011
Best in Show:"Pointing a Telescope at the Sun" at MINUS SPACE, by Robert Shuster,
Village Voice, August 24, 2011
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun at MINUS SPACE , by Caleb de Jong. Thoughts That Cure Radically blog, August 24, 2011
Pointing a Telescope at the Sun at MINUS SPACE,
NY Arts Magazine, Summer 2011
Eye to the Optical Sky, by Noah Dillon,
ArtSlant, August, 2011
Gallery Picks: August 2011, SpruceStar Studio, August 3, 2011
Stephen Maine,
Art in America, February 2011.
2010
James Panero.
The New Criterion, November 2010.
"Gabriele Evertz •
From the Flatfiles,"
MINUS SPACE project space, March 2010.
2009
"Gallery Chronicle: On Op Art, Gabriele Evertz at Metaphor Gallery," James Panero.
The New Criterion, June 2009.
"Hard edged in Brooklyn," James Panero.
The New Criterion, April 24, 2009.
"In Freudenheim show, five alternate views of abstraction," Colin Dabkowski.
The Buffalo News, April 10, 2009.
"Color Exchange, Berlin - New York,"
GermanyinNYC.org, March 27 - April 26, 2009.
"Berlin - New York," Mattias Bleyl.
Color Exchange: Berlin - New York, March 27 - April 26, 2009.
2008
"Weltanschauung and Abstract Painting," Robert C. Morgan.
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008.
"Where color reigns, Greenport artist is putting the hue in humanity," Joyce Beckenstein,
The Suffolk Times, January 24, Vol. CLII No.4
2007
Op Art: Then and Now, Columbus Museum of Art, Joe Houston, Exhibition Statement
"Curator's Voice: Reviving the Edge in Optical Painting," Bog-gi Kim,
Art in Asia, First Edition, September-October
2006
Artnet Magazine, Stephen Maine
The New York Times, Grace Glueck
2003
The East Hampton Star, Robert Long
Artnews, Amei Wallach, November
2001
The New York Times, Helen Harrison, August 19
The East Hampton Star, Eric Ernst
2000
The New York Times, Helen Harrison, October 8
Curated Exhibitions
2010
Visual Sensations, The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967-2010, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Catalog. Reviews.
2009
Color Exchange Berlin-New York,Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany, traveling to Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY. Poster. Reviews.
2006
Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, Catalog. Reviews.
2003
Seeing Red: An International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, with Dr. Michael Fehr, Catalog. Reviews.
Public Collections
USA
Boston Museum of Art, MA
Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Harvard University Museum, MA
Heckscher Museum of Art, NY
Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Mississippi Museum of Art, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
New Jersey State Museum, NJ
Parrish Art Museum, NY
Princeton University Library, NJ
Whitney Museum of Art, NY
Abroad
The British Museum, London, England
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Stiftung für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Wilhelm Mack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germanys.
Representation
MinusSpace, NY
Contemporary Collections, OH
Adler & Co., CA