reductive art

Heimo Zobernig

2009-12-25T16:16:00.001-08:00

Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, Acrylic on linen canvas, 2007

Much of Zobernig’s work critically engages with abstraction, constructivism, minimalism and conceptual art. He questions the principles and conditions which underpin them; challenging and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material that is at times playful, dry, witty, unsettling and disarming.

Frank Richter

2009-12-25T15:58:00.000-08:00

Frank Richter, "random graphs", c-print, 1992

Frank Richter is an artist and researcher currently based in Berlin. He seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computer graphics and science, involving research in spatial perception, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works range from sculpture to graphic including animation, video and spatial art-installation.

Stefan Brüggemann

2009-10-03T05:08:00.000-07:00

Stefan Brüggemann was born in Mexico City in 1975. He is part of a young group of artists working in Mexico today that has attracted much recent international attention for their irreverent, radical, and often collaborative approaches to art production. He works with and through established systems of institutional critique and conceptual art, but alters their canonical approaches to art production to allow ambiguity, irony, and play to enter the works. Using all media, Brüggemann’s works often consist of small gestures, additions, or alterations to a given space, medium, or genre.

2009-06-09T12:33:00.001-07:00

Gilbert Hsiao, Dual II (2007), 34" x 34", acrylic on wood panel

Vera Molnar

2009-06-09T12:28:00.000-07:00

Vera Molnar, 25 Carrès (25 Squares), 1989/90Plotterzeichnung Ca. 44 x 44 cm, Unikat

Vera Molnar is a pioneer in the field of Digital Art. She mixed her constructivist approach with intentional interferences in the mathematic system. Her admiration for Paul Klee is present in her artworks as well as in her essays concerning art. In 1959 she created the "Machine imaginaire" to carry out algorithmic calculations at a time when computers did not even exist and concentrated early on the aesthetic possibilities of Digital Art.

Vera Molnar was born in Budapest in 1924 and worked since 1947 in France (Paris and Normandy) . After an academic art school training (Beaux Arts) she makes non-figurative images.

Carsten Nicolai

2009-06-09T12:22:00.000-07:00

Static 7, acrylic, magnetic tape, polyester, aluminium frame, 200 x 260 cm2005

Carsten Nicolai is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. He seeks to overcome the separation of the sensual perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. Many of the works seem generative, creating beauty from chaos.
Further aspects of his works consider the integration of chance as well as the inspection of the interchanging relations of micro and macro structures. Special interest he also puts on so-called self-organizing processes, for example the growing of snow crystals.

Gabriele Evertz

2009-06-09T11:54:00.000-07:00

Gabriele Evertz, Red and the Spectrum, Acrylic on Canvas 18 x 24 inches, 2008

Gabriele Evertz's optical painting is eye-candy building excitement through the use of pure color vibration. She was born in Berlin and received her early education there. After settling in the US she studied at Pratt Institute and then Hunter College where she received a Master’s Degree in Painting in 1990. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections and museums in the US and abroad. Gabriele Evertz received awards from the DAAD and the Foundation for the Arts. She participated in panel discussions, as visiting critic, and as external examiner in the Netherlands. She has organized exhibitions and writes on color problems in painting.