Matthew_Marks_Gallery

Matthew Marks Gallery

Matthew Marks Gallery

Art gallery in New York City


Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, film, and drawings and prints. The gallery has three exhibition spaces in New York City and two in Los Angeles.[1]

History

Matthew Marks worked for the Pace Gallery in New York City and Anthony d'Offay in London prior to opening his own gallery.[2] After working for three years at d'Offay, Marks moved back to New York City to open his own gallery, a 1,000 square feet (93 m2) space on Madison Avenue.[3] The Matthew Marks Gallery had its first exhibition, Artists' Sketchbooks, in February 1991, including Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jackson Pollock, and Cy Twombly.[4]

Matthew Marks Gallery opened its first space in Chelsea — a converted single-story garage with skylights at 522 West 22nd Street[5] — in 1994, with a show of Ellsworth Kelly.[6] In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries – Gladstone Gallery and Metro Pictures – to acquire and divide up a 29,000 sq ft (2,700 m2) warehouse at 515 West 24th Street.[7] By 1997, the gallery closed its space on Madison Avenue. Over the following years, two more spaces in Chelsea were added.[8] Since 1998, Matthew Marks Gallery and another gallery—first Pat Hearn Gallery (1998), later Greene Naftali Gallery (2008, 2018)—have organized "Painting: Now and Forever", a large-scale, ongoing survey of contemporary painting, every 10 years.[9]

In 2012, Matthew Marks Gallery opened two locations in West Hollywood, Los Angeles,[6] both designed by Peter Zellner.[10]

The Armory Show

In 1994, the Gramercy International Art Fair, now called The Armory Show, made its debut in New York's Gramercy Park Hotel.[11] Four dealers and gallerists, Pat Hearn, Colin de Land, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, worked together to bring in a younger generation of downtown artists who were working through the recession that plagued the 1980s.[12] Mark Dion's Lemonade Stand (1996), Andrea Fraser’s Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989), May I Help You (1991), and Renée Green’s The Pigskin Library (1990) debuted at the art fair.[13]

Artists

Matthew Marks represents living artists, including:

In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including:

In the past, the gallery has worked with the following artists and estates:


References

  1. Shnayerson, Michael (May 21, 2019). Boom : mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art (First ed.). New York. ISBN 9781610398411. OCLC 1055566751.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Eric Konigsberg, "Marks Nabs Johns: How gallerist Matthew Marks bagged the flag man and became the new Leo Castelli," New York Magazine, May 21, 2005.
  3. Konigsberg, Eric (April 29, 2005). "Matthew Marks Bags Jasper Johns - How a Young Art Dealer Won Over the Most Important Living Painter - Nymag". New York Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  4. Shnayerson, Michael (2019). Boom : mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art (First ed.). New York: Hachette. p. 158. ISBN 9781610398404. OCLC 1054266745.
  5. Michael Kimmelman (November 1, 1998), A New Chelsea and the Evanescence of Chic New York Times.
  6. David Ng (October 24, 2012), Los Angeles Times.
  7. "From grit to glitter: a look back at 25 years of The Armory Show". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. March 6, 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  8. Morris, Paul (March 2, 2016). "Armory Show Cofounder Paul Morris Takes a Trip Down Memory Lane". ARTnews.com. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  9. www.thearmoryshow.com https://www.thearmoryshow.com/armory-25/the-gramercy-years. Retrieved May 10, 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. Finn, Robin (May 31, 2013). "Renovated by Artists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  11. Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015), Changing Galleries New York Times.
  12. "Alex Da Corte | Matthew Marks Gallery". Alex Da Corte | Matthew Marks Gallery. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  13. "Trisha Donnelly | Matthew Marks Gallery". Trisha Donnelly | Matthew Marks Gallery. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  14. "Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists?". Observer. September 7, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  15. "Matthew Marks Gallery | Artists | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  16. Daniel Grant (January 26, 2010), U.S. Following Grows for Fischli & Weiss ARTnews.
  17. Sarah Douglas (September 30, 2011), Musing On Marks’ New LA Space The New York Observer.
  18. Robin Pogrebin (January 12, 2017), Brice Marden Joining Gagosian Gallery New York Times.

Further reading

  • Matthew Marks, l'homme pressé. Beaux Arts, November 1993, 40–41.
  • The Print Collector's Newsletter, May–June 1991.
  • Gimelson, Deborah. The Art of the Dealer. Mirabella, March 1992, 71–72.
  • Gubernick, Lisa. De Kooning's Uptown Upstart Art Dealer Slouches Toward Success Despite Slump. New York Observer, April 25, 1994.
  • Kazanjian, Dodie. Marks and Sparks. Vogue, February 1995, 256–259, 296.
  • Kennedy, Randy. Chelsea: The Art and Commerce of One Hot Block. The New York Times, November 3, 2006, sec E.
  • Mar, Alex. Critics Pick: Matthew Marks. New York Magazine
  • Tröster, Christian. Ins Herz de Kunstler: Matthew Marks ist New Yorks neuer Stargalerist. German Vogue, April 1997
  • West, Kevin. Matthew's Mark. W, March 1997, 290–296
  • Yablonsky, Linda. Portrait of the Dealer as a Young Man. Out, November 1997.

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