MINUS SPACE is pleased to present Pointing a Telescope at the Sun, a group exhibition highlighting abstract color painting by five highly-influential NYC-based artists: Gabriele Evertz, Vincent Longo, Doug Ohlson, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Doug Ohlson (1936-2010) who passed away last year at age 73.

A core concern shared among these five artists is their pioneering investigation of color and its transformative effect on the viewer. Their strategies with color range from the exhaustively systematic to the intuitively poetic to the radiantly visceral. The exhibition will feature one recent painting by each artist.

All five artists have also held decades-long associations with the renowned Art Department at Hunter College in New York City, one of the leading champions of color and abstraction – not to mention painting – among art schools in the United States. With more than 150 years of combined teaching experience at Hunter among them, these five artists have mentored countless generations of artists and have profoundly impacted the artistic discourse on the local, national, and international levels.