Gabriele Evertz

Color to me is the most important problem, it's a pioneering problem, it's a very new experience to not tell a story, not make the color the burden of a symbolic meaning. Just perceive and understand, what the sensation is of color. Intense colors give me that sense of aliveness. 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. 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.

Without the viewer the painting doesn't exist. The viewer brings the painting to life. 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." Louis Stern Fine Arts represents Gabriele Evertz on the West Coast of the United States.

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

Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Brooklyn Museum, New York Harvard University Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York The New York Public Library, New York New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey St. Lawrence University Art Museum, Canton, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The British Museum, London, England Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2006: LIV, Benton Nyce Gallery, Greenport, New York 2011: Gabriele Evertz – Rapture, Minus Space, New York 2012: Gabriele Evertz – Optic Drive, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2012: Gabriele Evertz – The Geometry of Color, Art Sites Gallery, Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York 2015: The Gray Question, Minus Space, New York 2017: Gabriele Evertz – Color Relativity, 499 Park Ave Lobby Gallery, New York 2018: Flagge zeigen – Gabriele Evertz, Radevormwald, Germany 2020: Gabriele Evertz – Exaltation, Minus Space, New York 2022: Gabriele Evertz – Path, Minus Space, New York

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

2003: Seeing Red: Contemporary Nonobjective Painting, (curated together with Michael Fehr) Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York 2006: Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York 2009: Color Exchange Berlin-New York, Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany (the exhibition travelled later to the gallery Metaphor Contemporary Art), New York 2010: Visual Sensations, The Paintings of Robert Swain: 1967–2010, 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, Alabama)