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Russell Maltz
Painted / Stacked / Site
April 9 – July 30, 2022
Opening: Saturday, April 9, 6-8pm
Online Talk with Russell Maltz: Thursday, April 21, 7-8pm EST
Exhibition Checklists / Available Artworks
Part 1 (April 9 - May 7)
Part 2 (May 14 - June 18)
Part 3 (June 25 - July 30)
Exhibition Videos
POOL Exhibition | Slideshow | Video Monitor | Ephemera Vitrine (April 9 - May 7)
20 Jay Street Exhibition (April 9 - May 7)
Stacked Works Exhibition (May 14 - June 18)
Needle Works Exhibition (June 25 - July 30)
Russell Maltz Artist Talk (Thursday, April 21, 2022)
Press
Nothing’s Singular: Russell Maltz Interviewed by Michelle Grabner
Bomb Magazine, July 25, 2022
Russell Maltz: Assembling Coincidence in Sculpture & Concept
by Barbara A. MacAdam, Art & Object, July 25, 2022
TWI-NY Talk: Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site
by Mark Rifkin, This Week in New York, July 15, 2022
Russell Maltz: The Needle and The Stack
by Gwenael Kerlidou, Tussle, June 29, 2022
Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site
by William Corwin, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2022
Russell Maltz: Radical Thrift
by Adam Simon, Two Coats of Paint, April 16, 2022
MINUS SPACE is delighted to present Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, the esteemed NYC-based artist’s third solo exhibition here at the gallery which will occur in five distinct installments.
For the past five decades, Russell Maltz has produced reductive artworks in a broad array of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, and photography. Working both indoors and out, Maltz commonly uses new or repurposed commercial building materials, such as plywood, lumber, metal wall studs, cinder blocks, glass, PVC pipes, and enamel paint, which he carefully transforms and sites in response to the dynamics of a given environment. His works often appear raw and industrial upon first impression contrasting the seemingly casual nature of their arrangement.
From April 9 – May 7, Maltz will present a documentary exhibition at the gallery of his earliest works dating from the mid- to late 1970s that he made in response to the Land and Conceptual Art movements, both key touchstones in the artist’s early production. Starting in 1976, Maltz began working in an abandoned public swimming pool on the campus of C.W. Post College, Long Island University, in Brookville, NY, where he created a series of temporary, site-sensitive installations exploring the pool’s unique negative space as well as its surrounding environment. Works on view will include photographs, drawings, videos, and ephemera from this period. These will be complemented by a suite of seven black and white photographs by artist Abby Robinson of both Maltz’s works as well as installations created by other invited, collaborating artists, including Roberta Allen, Ted Stamm, Tony King, and more.
From May 14 – June 18, the artist will act as an “artist in residence” at the gallery where he will install works from his ongoing, multifaceted Stacked series dating from the early 1980s to the present. His focus will be on the process of making the artworks in the space. Viewers will have the opportunity to see the results of the artist at work and experience individual artworks realized at various stages of their development and reconfiguration.
For his third exhibition from June 25 – July 30, Maltz will present a suite of works from his recent Needle series, which merge glass, lumber, and other construction materials into slender vertical constructions. All of the works on view during his multipart exhibition illuminate the artist’s decades-long examination into the transformation of humble, industrial materials and ask poignant questions about what an abstract painting can be and how it can function in a given environment.
In addition to the three consecutive exhibitions at the gallery, Maltz will also realize a new site-sensitive installation consisting of concrete blocks, plywood, PVC pipes, metal wall studs, and dayglo yellow paint in an empty storefront located at 28 Jay Street (ground floor) in Dumbo. The installation will also feature a TV monitor presenting a looping slideshow of nearly 200 photographs from his ongoing FS series, which documents instances of found installations on city streets throughout the world. The exhibition will be viewable from the street 24/7 until mid-May.
Maltz will lastly present a public Scatter series project in Hillman Garden / Luther Gulick Park located at 100 Broome Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood through the summer. The artist identified and transformed existing materials from the community garden, which members of the garden will be able to repurpose and reuse for their everyday gardening needs.
The artist will give a free, online public talk via Zoom on Thursday, April 21, from 7-8pm EST.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Russell Maltz (b. 1952, Brooklyn, NY; lives New York, NY) is one of the leading reductive artists of his generation. Over the past 40+ years, he has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, and the United States. The first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work was mounted by the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken in Germany in 2017, and was accompanied by a 230-page book published by Kerber Verlag.
Here at the gallery, Maltz has mounted two engaging solo exhibitions – Painted / Stacked / Suspended (2017) and The Ball Park Series, 1977-2012 (2012) – and also participated in the two-person exhibition Plywood alongside artist Melissa Kretschmer (2015). In 2012, he produced a major, site-sensitive installation entitled Painted/Stacked Oaxaca at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, which was part of our survey exhibition MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca in Oaxaca, Mexico.
His additional recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Michael Sturm (Stuttgart Germany), Galerie Wenger (Zurich, Switzerland), Alejandra von Hartz Gallery (Miami, FL), Galleri Weinberger (Copenhagen, Denmark), The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), Galerie Schlegl (Zurich, Switzerland), and the Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL).
Maltz’s work is included in many public and private collections worldwide, including The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA), Museum Moderner Kunst (Ottendorf, Germany), and the Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia). His work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, and Village Voice, among many others.
Maltz serves on the Advisory Board of Critical Practices Inc. (CPI), which supports the emergence and development of new practices within the field of cultural production. CPI was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
ABOUT MINUS SPACE
Founded in 2003, MINUS SPACE presents the past, present, and future of reductive art on the international level. We launched our new website a year ago to make learning about new art enriching and collecting rewarding. In addition to presenting engaging, available artworks by more than 20 international artists, the website also features an Editions page, which highlights compelling limited edition prints and multiples by gallery and affiliated artists dating from the 1960s to today. The Books page presents dozens of new and out-of-print publications about gallery artists and reductive art, including monographs, exhibition catalogues, writings, and ephemera.
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POOL Project (1976-1979)
April 8 - May 7, 2022
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Russell Maltz, POOL and Invitational Exhibition, 1976-1979, 116 35mm slides and slide projector, Photos by Russell Maltz, Ted Stamm, and Abby Robinson, Dimensions variable, #RM68 - NFS
Russell Maltz, POOL Signage, 1979, Offset print on paper, unframed, 14 x 17 inches, #RM69 - NFS
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM70
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM71
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM72 - SOLD
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM73
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM74 - SOLD
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM75
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1976-1977, Graphite on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM65
Russell Maltz, No Title, 1977, Graphite, oil pastel on Fabriano paper, unframed, 22 x 29 inches, #RM66
Russell Maltz, POOL Wall Installation, 1977, Graphite and ink wash on paper, unframed, 26 x 100 inches, #RM76
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Polyurethane, silver pencil, and graphite on paper, framed, 8.5 x 11 inches, 12 x 15 inches framed, #RM77
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Graphite on paper, framed, 8 x 11.5 inches, 15 x 18 inches framed, #RM78
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Graphite, polyurethane, and white pencil on paper, framed, 8.5 x 14 inches, 12.5 x 16.5 inches framed, #RM79 - NFS
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Graphite, silver pencil, aluminum paint and polyurethane on paper, framed, 9.5 x 12.25 inches, 15 x 18.25 inches framed, #RM80
Russell Maltz, POOL Wall Installation, 1977, Three black and white photographs, framed, 11.5 x 14.5 inches each, 11.5 x 45.5 inches overall framed, #RM81 - SOLD
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Polyurethane and graphite on Arches watercolor paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM82
Russell Maltz, POOL Drawing, 1977, Polyurethane and graphite on Arches watercolor paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM83
Russell Maltz, POOL Black Zone, 1979, Graphite on Arches watercolor paper, unframed, 22.5 x 30 inches, #RM84
Russell Maltz, POOL Black Zone, 1979, Graphite on graph paper, framed, 17 x 22 inches, 19.5 x 24.5 inches framed, #RM85
Russell Maltz, POOL Black Zone Aerial, 1979, C-print and black and white photos, ink and graphite on paper, framed, 24.5 x 55.5 inches overall framed, #RM86
Russell Maltz, POOL Black Zone Aerial, 1977, Video recording, TV monitor, DVD player, and lumber, 12 minutes, Edition of 3, #RM87
Russell Maltz, POOL Black Zone, 1979, Charcoal and ink on linen-backed paper, unframed, 60 x 117 inches, #RM88
Russell Maltz, POOL Wall Installation, 1979, Polyurethane, charcoal, and ink on Arches watercolor paper, unframed, 18 x 42 inches, #RM89
Russell Maltz, POOL Ephemera, 1976-1979, Drawings, postcards, photographs, catalogue, vitrine, #RM90
Russell Maltz, POOL Ephemera, 1976-1979, Drawings, postcards, photographs, catalogue, vitrine, #RM90
Russell Maltz, POOL Ephemera, 1976-1979, Drawings, postcards, photographs, catalogue, vitrine, #RM90
Russell Maltz, GR/W #3, 1978, Oil and graphite on 2 plywood panels, 9.5 x 7 inches, #RM19
Russell Maltz, B/W #1, 1978, Oil on 2 wooden printing blocks, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, #RM20
Russell Maltz, P #2, 1978, Oil and graphite on 2 plywood panels, 9 3-8 x 7 1-8 inches, #RM67
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- POOL Project (1976-1979)
Abby Robinson, Roberta Allen, June 1978, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR1
Abby Robinson, Tony King, March 1979, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR2
Abby Robinson, Jon Colburn, September 1978, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR3
Abby Robinson, Don Leicht, December 1977, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR4
Abby Robinson, Tony King, March 1979, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR5
Abby Robinson, Ted Stamm, January 1978, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR6
Abby Robinson, Don Hazlitt, February 1978, Black and white pigment print on photo paper, framed, 8 x 10 inches, 11.5 x 14.5 inches framed, #AR7
Painted / Stacked / Site
Installation at 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
April 8 - May 7, 2022
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site, 20 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
May 14 - June 18, 2022
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Stacked Works (1980s-Present)
Russell Maltz, Blue Hat Stack (For Jerome), 2020, Blue acrylic and polyurethane enamel on plywood, 7 plates, 48 x 75 x 10 inches, #RM92
Russell Maltz, STACK - SCR-17, 2015-2022, Yellow Dayglo enamel on plywood, 13 plates, 96 x 41.5 x 18 inches, #RM93
Russell Maltz, STACK - Ball Park XLIII, 2021, Polyurethane enamel and enamel on plate and wire glass, 15 plates, 60 x 101 x 10 inches, #RM94
Russell Maltz, STACK - AL #193, 1993, Enamel and aluminum radiator paint on plywood, 11 plates, 60 x 78.5 x 24 inches, #RM95
Russell Maltz, Black Stack, 1992-2022, Black polyurethane enamel on plywood, 30 plates, Dimensions variable, #RM91
Russell Maltz, Stacked Orange, 2021, Acrylic on plywood, 7 plates, 96 x 48 x 16 inches, #RM96
Russell Maltz, STACK – Low Blues, 2021, Polyurethane enamel on plywood, 7 plates, 22 x 58 x 9 inches, #RM100
Russell Maltz, STACK - White Veil, 2021, Polyurethane enamel on clear and wire glass, 6 plates, 26.25 x 22 x 4.25 inches, #RM99
Russell Maltz, ACCU-FLO Bundled #1, 2022, Day-Glo enamel on plywood with metal banding, 28 x 106 x 5 inches, #RM68
Russell Maltz, ACCU-FLO Bundled #2, 2022, Day-Glo enamel on plywood with metal banding, 26 x 106 x 5 inches, #RM69
Russell Maltz, Stacked Drawing, 1984, Charcoal on paper, 30.5 x 25.5 inches, 34 x 29 inches framed, #RM98 - SOLD
Russell Maltz, Untitled, 1989, Charcoal on paper, 31.25 x 21 inches, #RM111
Russell Maltz, Untitled, 1988, Ink on Arches paper, 11.5 x 15.25 inches, #RM110
Russell Maltz, Stacked Drawing, 1991, Ink and charcoal on paper, 32 x 48 inches unframed, #RM97
Russell Maltz, STACK, undated, Charcoal and tracing paper on paper, 19 x 24 inches, #RM109
Needle Works
June 25 - July 30, 2022
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Exhibition view of Russell Maltz: Painted / Stacked / Site -- Needle Works (2019-2022)
Russell Maltz, Into Blues, 2019, Acrylic and polyurethane on 1 glass plate and wood suspended from a galvanized nail, 92 x 3.5 x 4 inches / 239 x 9 x 10 cm, #RM101
Russell Maltz, Blue Riser, 2021, Polyurethane on 3 glass plates suspended from a galvanized nail, 111.75 x 3.5 x 4 inches / 284 x 9 x 10 cm, #RM102
Russell Maltz, Blue Shifter, 2021, Polyurethane on 3 glass plates suspended from a galvanized nail, 71.5 x 3.5 x 4 inches / 182 x 9 x 10 cm, #RM103
Russell Maltz, Clear Blues, 2021, Polyurethane and pigment on 3 glass plates suspended from a galvanized nail, 105 x 3.5 x 4 inches / 267 x 9 x 10 cm, #RM104
Russell Maltz, Bolt, 2022, Polyurethane and acrylic on 1 glass plate and wood suspended from a galvanized nail, 107 x 2.5 x 4 inches / 272 x 6.5 x 10 cm, #RM105
Russell Maltz, Ball Park XLVIII, 2020, Polyurethane and acrylic on glass (3 plates) suspended from a galvanized nail, 111 x 3 x 4 inches / 282 x 8 x 10 cm, #RM106
Russell Maltz, Red Liner, 2019, Polyurethane and acrylic on glass (3 plates) suspended from a galvanized nail, 87.5 x 3 x 4 inches / 222 x 8 x 10 cm, #RM107
Russell Maltz, S.P./W-White Veil, 2018, Polyurethane and pigment on glass (3 plates) suspended from 2 galvanized nails, 17.5 x 35.5 x 4 inches / 45 x 90 x 10 cm, #RM108