Gabriele Evertz Explained

Gabriele Evertz
Birth Place:	Berlin, Germany
Nationality:	American
Known For:	Abstract color painting
Style:	Geometric abstraction

Gabriele Evertz (born 1945 in Berlin, Germany^[1]) is an American painter, curator and professor who is applying the history and theory of color in her work. She is known for abstract color painting and Geometric abstraction.

Life and work

Gabriele Evertz emigrated to the United States at the age of 19.^[2] She holds an M.F.A. in painting and a B.A. in art history, both from Hunter College, where she has taught since 1998. She is a member of the American Abstract Artists. Evertz lives and works in New York. In 2012, she received the Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting.^[3]

Evertz is considered a longtime member of the Hunter Color School, along with Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, Vincent Longo, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and Sanford Wurmfeld.^[4] Although all artists have found their own individual means of expression, they are united in their exploration of the phenomenology of color in order to initiate a transformative effect^[5] on the viewer.

thumb|Gabriele Evertz in front of her work Double, 1999, acrylic on canvas

Work

Evertz's paintings consist of vertical lines, for which she uses all colors of the color circle. In her latest compositions she turns to the color grey and its effects on surrounding colors. Occasionally, she also uses metallic colors, as these can reflect the light and set additional color impulses. She often repeats certain color constellations within an artwork.

While viewing the painting, the mind's eye constantly swings between perceiving the entire picture and the concentration on individual aspects of the work. The viewer thus perceives a kind of vibration of the color: The resulting paintings present a barrage of visual information that moves color and form in and out of sequence and symmetry causing the eye to move through undulating, pulsating spaces.^[6] This becomes particularly evident when the viewer takes different distances from the picture. The resulting parallax intensifies the experience of the vibration and oscillation of the color.

It is solely through the viewers' perception of the composition, through their movement in the room and the resulting different perception of closeness and distance, that oscillation and vibration arise, which turns the viewing of the works into an individual and possibly even spiritual experience: "People think geometry is very static, but it isn't. It's moving all the time. I'm keeping the same color sequence but changing the background. so as you engage in it, it changes. The colors are the actors. These are really vessels of contemplation."^[7]

Louis Stern Fine Arts represents Gabriele Evertz on the West Coast of the United States.

Videography (selection)

• 2010: Michael Feldmann: Gabriele Evertz Paints a Color Study,^[8] 09′ 05″
• 2010: Michael Feldmann: Gabriele Evertz Documentary,^[9] 03′ 21″
• 2016: Macbamuseo: Geometric Obsession. American School 1965–2015^[10] 01′ 54″

Works in collections (selection)

• Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts^[11]
• Brooklyn Museum, New York^[12]
• Harvard University Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[13]
• Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri^[14]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[15]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[16]
• The New York Public Library, New York
• New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey^[17]
• The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.^[18]
• The Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey
• St. Lawrence University Art Museum, Canton, New York^[19]
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York^[20]
• The British Museum, London, England^[21]
• Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany^[22]
• MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina^[23]
• Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany^[24]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2006: LIV, Benton Nyce Gallery, Greenport, New York
• 2011: Gabriele Evertz – Rapture, Minus Space,^[25] New York
• 2012: Gabriele Evertz – Optic Drive,^[26] David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2012: Gabriele Evertz – The Geometry of Color,^[27] Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York
• 2015: The Gray Question,^[28] Minus Space, New York
• 2017: Gabriele Evertz – Color Relativity,^[29] 499 Park Ave Lobby Gallery, New York
• 2018: Flagge zeigen – Gabriele Evertz,^{[30] [31]} Radevormwald, Germany
• 2020: Gabriele Evertz – Exaltation,^[32] Minus Space, New York
• 2022: Gabriele Evertz – Path,^[33] Minus Space, New York

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2010: Escape from New York, Massey University,^[34] Wellington, New Zealand
• 2010: Escape from New York,^[35] Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• 2011: Pointing a Telescope at the Sun,^[36] Minus Space, New York
• 2011: American Abstract Artists International,^[37] Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
• 2012: Minus Space,^[38] The Suburban Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (with Mark Dagley und Gilbert Hsiao)
• 2012: Buzz,^[39] Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2012: Seeing Red. A Group Exhibition,^[40] David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2013: Hauptsache Grau,^{[41] [42]} Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
• 2014: A Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950,^[43] The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
• 2014: Doppler Shift,^[44] Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
• 2014: Intervention. Flagge zeigen,^[45] Banner Projekt, Radevormwald, Germany
• 2014: Hard Edge Abstraction: Paintings and Works on Paper,^[46] St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
• 2015: Territory of Abstraction,^[47] Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 2015: Breaking Pattern,^[48] Minus Space, New York
• 2015: Geometric Obsession. American School 1965–2015,^[49] Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2015: Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After,^[50] David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2016: Painting Color,^[51] Glassell Gallery at the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• 2016: Color,^[52] Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
• 2017: Polychromy: Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld,^[53] Minus Space, New York
• 2017: Extended Progress,^[54] Saturation Point Projects, London, England
• 2018: Radiant Energy,^{[55] [56]} Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey
• 2024: Perception and Abstraction, The Terry & David Peak Collection,^[57] Utah, Logan, United States

Curatorial work (selection)

• 2003: Seeing Red: Contemporary Nonobjective Painting,^[58] (curated together with Michael Fehr) Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
• 2006: Presentational Painting III,^[59] Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
• 2009: Color Exchange Berlin-New York,^[60] Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany (the exhibition travelled later to the gallery Metaphor Contemporary Art),^[61] New York
• 2010: Visual Sensations, The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967–2010,^[62] Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
• 2017: Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (later the exhibition travelled to the Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky and to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,^[63] Alabama)

External links

• • Gabriele Evertz at artfacts.net
• Geoform.net – Online scholarly resource for geometric art
• Collection of Gabriele Evertz's works
• Article by Larissa Kikol 2022 about the art art museum and the exhibition Stripe Artists

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gabriele Evertz . Minus Space . 2018-05-02.
2. Web site: Nadja Lehmann . Ab Montag dominieren die Streifen. Sinn für die Farben: Gabriele Evertz hat die Motive der neuen Fahnen geschaffen, die am Montag aufgehängt werden . www.rga.de . 2018-01-07 . 2018-03-15.
3. Web site: The Basil H Alkazzi Award for Excellence. Previous Recipients of The Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in painting . New York Foundation of the Arts (www.nyfa.org) . 2018-03-13.
4. Web site: John Yau . Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color. An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions . www.hyperallergic.com . 2017-08-12 . 2018-03-21.
5. Web site: Matthew Deleget . Gabriele Evertz. Color Relativity . 499parkavenue.com . 2017-08-18 . pdf, 7,96 MB . 2022-02-21.
6. Web site: Gabriele Evertz: The Gray Question . www.minusspace.com . 2015-08-15 . 2022-02-21.
7. Web site: Nada Marjanovich . Artist VIPs 2012: Gabriele Evertz . lipulse.com . 2012-06-28 . 2018-04-11.
8. Web site: Michael Feldmann . Gabriele Evertz Paints a Color Study . vimeo.com . 2010 . 2018-03-15.
9. Web site: Michael Feldmann . Gabriele Evertz Documentary . vimeo.com . 2010 . 2018-03-15.
10. Web site: Geometric Obsession. American School 1965–2015 . www.youtube.de . 2016-01-15 . 2018-03-21.
11. Web site: Artwork. Heraldic Tinctures. Gabriele Evertz . www.mfa.org . 2018-03-15.
12. Web site: Heraldic Tinctures. Gabriele Evertz . www.brooklynmuseum.org . 2018-03-15.
13. Web site: Gabriele Evertz . www.harvardartmuseums.org . 2018-03-15.
14. Web site: Gabriele Evertz. Advance . www.hallmarkartcollection.com . 2018-03-16.
15. Web site: Gabriele Evertz. Untitled . www.metmuseum.org . 2018-03-16.
16. Web site: Gabriele Evertz . www.moma.org . 2018-03-17.
17. Web site: Museum Collections. Fine Art . www.state.nj.us . 2018-03-17.
18. Web site: Gabriele Evertz. Untitled . www.phillipscollection.org . 2018-03-17.
19. Web site: Permanent Collection . The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Permanent Collection. St. Lawrence University (www.stlawu.edu) . 2018-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180411165726/http://stlawu.edu/gallery/collection/ . 2018-04-11 . dead .
20. Web site: Gabriele Evertz. Heraldic Tinctures. www.whitney.org . 2018-03-17.
21. Web site: Collection online . www.britishmuseum.org . 2018-03-19.
22. Web site: Die Sammlung des Osthaus Museums Hagen . www.osthausmuseum.de . 2018-03-17.
23. Web site: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires – Artists . www.artsy.net . 2018-03-17.
24. Web site: Sammlung Gegenwart . www.wilhelmhack.museum . 2022-02-21.
25. Web site: Robert C. Morgan . Gabriele Evertz: Rapture . brooklynrail.org . 2011-12-10 . 2018-03-19.
26. Web site: Gabriele Evertz: Optic Drive . davidrichardgallery.com . 2018-03-19.
27. Web site: exhibits 12 . www.artsitesgallery.com . 2018-03-19.
28. Web site: Paul Corio . Seen in New York, September 2015 . www.painters-table.de . 2015-10-07 . 2018-03-19.
29. Web site: Color Relativity: Gabriele Evertz . www.499parkavenue.com . 2017-08-18 . 2018-03-19 . Pdf, 7,32 Mb . 2018-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180412211952/http://resources.499parkavenue.com/main/pdf/art/matthew-deleget-color-relativity.pdf?z=2018-03-19-1 . dead .
30. Web site: Fahnenausstellung. Neue Fahnen am Kreisverkehr von Gabriele Evertz . Flag exhibition. New flags at the roundabout by Gabriele Evertz . Rheinische Post online . 2018-01-09 . 2018-03-11.
31. Web site: Nadja Lehmann . Ab Montag dominieren die Streifen. Sinn für die Farben: Gabriele Evertz hat die Motive der neuen Fahnen geschaffen, die am Montag aufgehängt werden . From Monday the bands dominates. Sense of color: Gabriele Evertz has created the motifs for the new flags to be hung on Monday . www.rga.de . 2018-01-07 . 2018-03-15.
32. Web site: Gabriele Evertz – Exaltation . . 2021-02-01.
33. Web site: Current Exhibition: Gabriele Evertz – Path . www.minusspace.com . 2022-11-05.
34. Web site: Escape from New York . minusspace.com . 2010-05-01 . 2022-02-21 .
35. Web site: Escape From New York. Project Space Spare Room . RMIT University . 2022-02-21.
36. Web site: Stephen Maine . The Reductive Expands: Minus Space will move from 175 feet in Gowanus to a Dumbo loft. Pointing a Telescope at the Sun at Minus Space . 2011-09-12 . 2018-03-18 . April 13, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180413125524/http://www.artcritical.com/2011/09/12/minus-space/ . dead .
37. Web site: 13.05.2011 bis 18.06.2011 Ausstellung im Projektraum: American Abstract Artists International 75th Anniversary . 13.05.2011 to 18.06.2011 Exhibition in the Project Space: American Abstract Artists International 75th Anniversary . www.kuenstlerbund.de . 2018-03-18.
38. Web site: Minus Space: Mark Dagley, Gabriele Evertz and Gilbert Hsiao . minusspace.com . 2012-01-22 . 2022-02-21.
39. Web site: Catalogo_buzz curadoria by vik muniz . nararoesler.art . 2012-11-28 . 2018-03-18 . pdf, 2,26 mb.
40. Web site: Seeing Red. A Group Exhibition . www.davidrichardgallery.com . 2018-03-21.
41. Web site: Hauptsache Grau. . Mainly Gray . House Lemke . 2022-02-21 .
42. Book: Matthias Bleyl . Michael Fehr . Wita Noack . Hauptsache Grau . Form & Zweck . Berlin . 2014-01-22 . 978-3935053754 . de, en.
43. Web site: Exhibition Details. A Global Exchange . thefrost.fiu.edu . 2018-03-21.
44. Web site: Joanne Mattera . A Walk through Doppler-Shift . 2014-02-10 . 2018-03-21.
45. Web site: 23 artists have designed 50 flags for Bernd Freudenberg . www.rga.de . 2014-12-15 . 2018-03-21.
46. Web site: Exhibitions Archive 2014 . St. Lawrence University . 2022-02-21 . February 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220221161542/https://www.stlawu.edu/offices/art-gallery/exhibitions/archive-2014-exhibitions . dead .
47. Web site: Hannah Yudkin . Artists Find Common Ground in Language of Abstraction . hyperallergic.com . 2015-03-04 . 2018-03-21.
48. Web site: Thomas Micchelli . Confounding the Eye: Breaking Pattern at Minus Space . hyperallergic.com . 2015-03-28 . 2018-03-21.
49. Web site: Obsesión Geométrica. American School 1965–2015 . www.macba.com . 2018-03-21.
50. Web site: Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After (Part II) – American Op Art In the 60s . www.artsy.net . 2018-03-21.
51. Web site: Painting Color, Curated by Susan Bonfils . (Glassell Gallery) . 2018-03-21.
52. Web site: Past Exhibitions . www.philipsleingallery.com . 2018-03-21.
53. Web site: John Yau . Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color. An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions . www.hyperallergic.com . 2017-08-12 . 2018-03-21.
54. Web site: Extended Process – Parts 1 and 2 . www.saturationpoint.org.uk . 2018-03-21.
55. Web site: Radiant Energy . www.artcenternj.org . 2018-03-23.
56. Web site: Thomas Micchelli . The Dazzling Sweep of the Hunter Color School. Radiant Energy is the first exhibition to feature paintings by Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, key members of this influential group . www.hyperallergic.com . 2018-04-07 . 2018-04-15.
57. Web site: Contemporary Art Collection by Terry, David Peak Featured at Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art . . 2024-01-03 . 2024-01-04.
58. Web site: Seeing Red, Part II . Hunter College . 2018-03-23.
59. Web site: Presentational Painting III . Hunter College . 2018-03-23.
60. Web site: Eine Auswahl bisheriger Projektpartner . A selection of previous project partners . www.galerieparterre.de . 2018-03-18.
61. Web site: Color Exchange Berlin – New York. Four Painters – Four positions . www.metaphorcontempoaryart.com . 2018-03-18.
62. Web site: Robert Swain New York at Hunter College Times Square Gallery and Minus Space . www.artinamericamagazine.com . 2011-01-28 . 2018-03-23.
63. Web site: Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture . University of Alabama . March 6, 2018 . 2018-03-23.