Gabriele Evertz
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Gabriele Evertz (born 1945 in
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, Germany) is an American painter,
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and
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who is applying the history and theory of color in her work. She is known for abstract color painting and
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.


Life and work

Gabriele Evertz emigrated to the United States at the age of 19. She holds an M.F.A. in painting and a B.A. in art history, both from
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, where she has taught since 1998. She is a member of the
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. Evertz lives and works in
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. In 2012, she received the Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting. Evertz is considered a longtime member of the Hunter Color School, along with Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, Vincent Longo,
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, and
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. 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'' on the viewer. 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
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. 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 Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different sightline, lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines. Due to perspective (graphica ...
intensifies the experience of the vibration and
oscillation Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states. Familiar examples of oscillation include a swinging pendulum ...
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." 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'', 09′ 05″ * 2010: Michael Feldmann: ''Gabriele Evertz Documentary'', 03′ 21″ * 2016: Macbamuseo: ''Geometric Obsession. American School 1965–2015'' 01′ 54″


Works in collections (selection)

* Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio *
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, Massachusetts *
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, New York * Harvard University Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri *
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, New York *
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, New York *
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, 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 *
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, New York *
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, London, England * Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany * MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina * Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany


Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 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


Group exhibitions (selection)

* 2010: ''Escape from New York'',
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, Wellington, New Zealand * 2010: ''Escape from New York'', Project Space Spare Room,
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, Melbourne, Australia * 2011: ''Pointing a Telescope at the Sun'', Minus Space, New York * 2011:
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International,
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, 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
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, 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


Curatorial work (selection)

* 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'',
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, Knoxville, (later the exhibition travelled to the
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, Murray, Kentucky and to the
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, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)


Further reading

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References


External links

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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''
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