BIOGRAPHY
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 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).
Evertz is a member of the prestigious American Abstract Artists, nominated by the late artist Mac Wells in 1996. Her work is included in many public collections worldwide, such as the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State, British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, Ewing Gallery / University of Tennessee Knoxville, Hallmark Collection, Harvard University Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Museo de Art Contemporáneo (Buenos Aires), Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Modern Art / Library Special Collection, Museum Modern Art (Hünfeld), New York Public Library, New Jersey State Museum, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Phillips Collection, Princeton University Library, St. Lawrence University Art Museum, Stiftung für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst (Zürich), Whitney Museum of American Art, and Wilhelm Hack Museum, among others.
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. Over the past fifteen years, Evertz has also curated several critically-acclaimed artist retrospectives and exhibitions, including Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture; Visual Sensations: Robert Swain Paintings, 1967-2010; Presentational Painting III; Seeing Red: An International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting (co-curated with Michael Fehr); Set in Steel: The Sculpture of Antoni Milkowski; and Mac Wells: Light into Being (co-curated with Robert Swain).
Artist statement:
My work investigates sensations and perceptions. The history and theory of color serve as basic tools of organization. My palette references the twelve hues of the color circle, plus black and white. My particular painting practice demands uniform precision of the painting facture that frees the observer to concentrate on color effects which suddenly and spontaneously alter with viewing distance and duration.
Informed by neuroscience and leaps of intuition my paintings aim to reveal a new and different visual experience by articulating an objective, thus universal, color language that is based on certain predications of the viewer’s response. But meaning remains open to subjective readings and color moves between reason and rapture.
Attentive viewing may turn from phenomenological moments to states of reflection which bring with it a heightened awareness of being in the world where vision, thought, and feeling concur.
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, Catalog.
2018Eight Flags: Gabriele Evertz, site-specific installation, Radevormwald, Germany
2017 Gabriele Evertz: Color Relativity, 499 Park Avenue / The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
2015The Gray Question, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012Optic Drive, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The Geometry of Color, Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead, NY
2011Rapture, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023Ten-venue exhibition Blurring Boundaries: The Women of AAA, 1936 – Present, ends with California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA;
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2022Harmony and Contrast: Chromatic Painting at the Turn of the Century, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021STRIPES–the whole idea Online exhibition, AAA. Launch date: February 5, 2021 Americanabstractartists.org/exhibitions/2020s/Stripes/
2020Digital: AAA Prints 2012-2019, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Blurring Bounderies: The Women of AAA, 1936 – Present, 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; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (2023)
2019Harmonies 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
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
2018Blurring Boundaries: Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University of Kentucky, Murray, KY;
Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
PRIMARY, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Radiant Energy, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, 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, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Du Jour, Amagansett, 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 , Abrons Art Center at Henry Street Settlement, NY
Color, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015Geometric Obsession. American School 1965—2015, Museo de Art Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Breaking Pattern, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
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, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014A 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
2013Dynamic 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
2011Pointing 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
2010Long 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
Escape from NY, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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
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, In the Studio with Gabriele Evertz - YouTube
2020 “Gabriele Evertz EXALTATION at MINUS SPACE,” Youtube, uploaded by jameskalmroughtcut, 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 Kalm, James. “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, Tennessee;
Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State, Murray, KN; College of Arts and Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL [catalog/book]
2010 Visual Sensations: Robert Swain Paintings: 1967-2010, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY [catalog, reviews]
2009 Color Exchange: Berlin-New York, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany; Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY [brochure/poster]
2006Presentational Painting III, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY [catalog, reviews]
2003 Seeing Red: An International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, with Dr. Michael Fehr [catalog, reviews]
1999Set in Steel: The Sculpture of Antoni Milkowski, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY [catalog, reviews]
1997Presentational Painting II, , The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY with Sanford Wurmfeld and Jesse Lambert [catalog, reviews]
1996Visual Arguments, University, New York, NY
Color Systems in Art and Science, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, with Klaus Stromer. [catalog, review]
Mac Wells: Light into Being, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, with Robert Swain [catalog]
1990April Fools Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, with Bess 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-TwoTrees Cultural Space Subsidy Program
2020
2020 Participant, Artist Talk, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Participant, Artist Talk, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
2017 Participant, Artist Talk, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2015PSC/CUNY Summer 2015 President’s Fund for Faculty Advancement.
2012 The Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting, NYFA, New York
2011 Maturity in Art, Panel Discussion, Po Kim and Silvia Wald Foundation, New York
2005 DAAD grant
2003 DAAD grant
2002 DAAD grant
2003 Participant, “Color as Experience,” Two-Day Symposium, Goethe Institute, New York
2001 NEA, SOS grant, East End Arts Council, Riverhead, New York
2001 External Examiner, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands
1990 William Graf Travel Grant Abroad Scholarship Award
1990 PSY-CUNY Research Grant: Color Systems
Whitney Museum of American Art, Lifetime Member
American Abstract Artists, Member
Minus Space, Member
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