“A primary voice…in the field of concept-driven abstraction.”
—Artcritical

“This charming cube of Zen.”
—Village Voice

“Top Ten Brooklyn Art Shows 2014”
—Hyperallergic

“Top Ten 2008”
—New York Magazine

“Our neighborhood’s own advocates of minimalism.”
—The Brooklyn Rail

“Here’s a rarity — a tiny, specialized gallery
with a very wide reach.”
—ARTnews

“A philosophy of less is more.”
—Time Out New York

Staff
Matthew Deleget, Founder + Director
Rossana Martinez, Founder + Director

info@minusspace.com

Land Recognition
Our gallery is located in Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples, and we respectfully acknowledge their past and present cultural and spiritual connection to this area.

Learn more about Native Lands and your community.

Overview
The only gallery of its kind in the United States, we specialize in reductive abstract art on the international level. Reductive art is generally characterized by its use of plainspoken materials, monochromatic or limited color, geometry and pattern, repetition and seriality, precise craftsmanship, and intellectual rigor. Reductive art is inclusive and pluralistic in its approach, including geographic location, age, gender, medium, artistic strategy, and content of work.

We present museum-quality solo and group exhibitions by pioneering emerging, established, and deceased artists at our Brooklyn gallery, as well as at other collaborating venues on the national and international levels.

Our exhibition program focuses primarily on the following five areas:

* Pioneering emerging artists with a demonstrated vision and practice committed to reductive art.
* Established, yet overlooked older artists working in the United States with excellent reputations and demonstrated influence within their community of artists.
* Established, international artists that have never or rarely exhibited in New York City or the United States.
* Historical exhibitions that reexamine underknown, deceased artists.
* Experimental exhibitions (ideas, ephemera, topical issues, etc.).

We represent an incomparable array of groundbreaking national and international artists working across all visual arts media. Gallery artists are included in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Walker Art Center, British Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum, among many others. The gallery also maintains inventory, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, works on paper, and multiples, by dozens of affiliated artists working around the globe.

Our exhibitions have been covered in publications and media outlets such as ABC News, Art in America, Art:21, Artcritical, Artnet Magazine, ArtNews, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Houston Public Radio, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, New York Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, New York Sun, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

In 2008, MoMA PS1 mounted the comprehensive five-year survey exhibition MINUS SPACE curated by Phong Bui, which included 54 artists from 14 countries. New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz named the show one of the best exhibitions of 2008. In 2012, we organized the exhibition MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca, co-curated by artist Emi Winter, which presented more than 30 international artists across five museum and non-profit venues across the city of Oaxaca, Mexico.

The gallery was also cited as a critical venue regarding the future of reductive abstract art in the book Complete Concrete: Over 100 Years of Constructive, Concrete, and Conceptual Art, published by Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switerland (2011).

We founded the gallery in Gowanus, Brooklyn in 2003, and moved to Dumbo, Brooklyn in September 2011.

Services
Our groundbreaking exhibitions are free and open to the public, and present the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level.

We provide expert advisory services for the development of private, corporate, educational, and museum art collections. Our individual clients range from first-time art buyers to seasoned collectors developing private museums.

We also have expertise in research, documentation, framing, installation, shipping, commissions, conservation, insurance, and appraisal of fine art.

Contact us to schedule a conversation.

Workshops + Classes
We welcome student groups at all levels, including graduate, undergraduate, continuing education, and K-12. If you are a teacher and would like to schedule a formal, private workshop with us — either here at the gallery, at your school, or online — concerning artist professional practices, arts administration, commercial galleries, curatorial endeavors, or other topics, contact us for further information.

Visiting programs have included:

American University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Cue Art Foundation
Drew University
Hunter College
Kent Place School
Lehman College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Montclair State University
NARS Foundation
New York University
The New School
New York Academy of Art
Parsons The New School for Design
Pratt Institute
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Yale University

Matthew Deleget
Founder + Director
Matthew Deleget is an artist, gallerist, curator, educator, writer, and arts worker. Matthew has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australasia. His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial by Michelle Grabner at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His additional museum exhibitions include MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY); Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY); Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Ithaca, NY); Bass Museum of Art (Miami, FL); and Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis, IN).

Matthew’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. He is a member of American Abstract Artists, the Artist Advisory Committee of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, the board of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and an artist consultant with Artists Thrive. Matthew's work is represented by Dr. Julius | AP (Berlin, Germany).

Matthew teaches in the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; Low-Res MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and Artist Services Program at Creative Capital, NYC. He also worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts from 1998-2009 where he conceived and directed all of their information programs for artists.

Matthew holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BA in Art and German from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.

Rossana Martinez
Founder + Director
Rossana Martinez is an artist, gallerist and foundation manager. Rossana was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She holds an MFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Rossana brings to the gallery her interest in conceptual and performance art, artists’ books, drawing, photography, sculpture, public art, printmaking, textiles, Latin America art, and Pre-Columbian art, among others.

As an artist, Rossana is interested in creating an experience and dialogue between the body and common materials through sculpture, installation and performance art. Her projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York City, Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

She has received awards from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and El Diario La Prensa (Mujeres Destacadas Award). Her work has been reviewed in publications, such as The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Sun, Flavorpill, and Artnet Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Cue Art Foundation and a member of American Abstract Artists.

In addition to MINUS SPACE, she is also the Foundation Manager at the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Working for a philanthropic foundation dedicated to the enhancement of the quality of life in New York City has broaden her views of the city’s arts, education, environment, human services, and history.

Creative Commons
We believe in the free exchange of information.  Our contents of our web site are licensed under Creative Commons (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives). You are free to share, copy, distribute, and transmit our content under the following conditions:

* You must attribute reproduced content to “MINUS SPACE”.
* You may not use our content for commercial purposes.
* You may not alter or transform our content.
* You must provide a link back to MINUS SPACE’s homepage (www.minusspace.com).
* PLEASE NOTE: Individual images and texts reproduced on MINUS SPACE are copyrighted, however, to the originating artists and writers.

Accessibility Statement
We believe that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort, and independence, and strive to ensure that our programming is accessible to people with disabilities. Our ground floor gallery is wheelchair accessible and our web site utilizes the latest technology. We work continually to improve the accessibility of our gallery space and website. Despite our best efforts to make all content on our website fully accessible, some content may not yet have been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be the result of not having identified the content or the most appropriate technological solution to correct it. If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions or need assistance, please contact us anytime at 718.801.8095 or info@minusspace.com.

Submissions + Proposals
We are not reviewing unsolicited artist submissions or exhibition proposals at this time. Thank you though for your interest!

Additional Support
MINUS SPACE maintains fiscal sponsorship status for special projects through the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. For further information about making a tax-deductible donation towards our upcoming projects, please contact us at info@minusspace.com.