Matthew Marks Gallery

Matthew Marks Gallery

Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. Founded in the early 1990s by Matthew Marks, it specializes in modern and contemporary art in a variety of media: including painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, film, and drawings and prints. It represents a broad spectrum of artists, from established figures like Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns to a younger generation of artists like Robert Gober and Nan Goldin. The gallery has three exhibition spaces in the city.

Contents

History

Matthew Marks worked for the Pace Gallery in New York and Anthony dOffay in London prior to opening his own gallery.[1] At Pace, he organized his first show of American prints in 1983 at the age of twenty, and co-organized a show of Picasso sketchbooks in 1986.[citation needed]

After working for three years at dOffay, Marks moved back to New York to open his own gallery on Madison Avenue. The Matthew Marks Gallery had its first exhibition, ArtistsSketchbooks, in February 1991, including Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jackson Pollock, and Cy Twombly.

The gallery opened its first space in Chelsea on 22nd Street in 1994. By 1997, the gallery was fully transplanted to Chelsea, and the Madison Ave. space was closed.

Reputation

Matthew Marks has a reputation for working closely with artists. His first show of artistssketchbooks set the tone for the gallerys future. Nothing was for sale, and most of works had never been seen before by the public. A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition.

Brice Marden, one of the gallerys stalwart artists, saidCrudely spoken, [Matthew Marks] seems to be a little less in it for himself than a lot of the other dealers.”[2] Established dealer Barbara Gladstone said thatthe artists love him. Hes comfortable with artists; he really puts himself out for them.”[3] And collector Eli Broad was quoted as saying, “I do not believe artists go to his gallery for his savvy as a businessman,” comments the collector Eli Broad…“[Marks is respected] for his sure taste and for the seriousness he brings to everything he does” (translated from French).[4]

Exhibitions

The gallery has invited art historians like Thomas Crow and Harry Cooper to write essays for gallery catalogues for the exhibitions it has organized over the years, beyond the usual monographic and group shows. The artists Charles Ray and Robert Gober were invited to organize shows. In 2005, the Matthew Marks Gallery organized Jasper Johns: Catenary, which was the first exhibition of the artists work since his 1996 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Marks also co-founded the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair (now renamed the Armory Show: The International Fair for New Art after the infamous Armory Show in 1913 that introduced modern art to many Americans), which is the largest contemporary art fair in New York and one of the largest in the world.[5][not in citation given]

Artists represented

It has also exhibited work by painters Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud and Cy Twombly.[citation needed]

Selected bibliography

Articles on Matthew Marks

  • Matthew Marks, lhomme pressé. Beaux Arts, November 1993, 40-41.
  • The Print Collectors Newsletter, May-June 1991.
  • Gimelson, Deborah. The Art of the Dealer. Mirabella, March 1992, 71-72.
  • Gubernick, Lisa. De Koonings 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. New York Times, November 3, 2006, sec E.
  • Mar, Alex. Critics Pick: Matthew Marks. New York Magazine, http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/matthew_marks01/
  • Tröster, Christian. Ins Herz de Kunstler: Matthew Marks ist New Yorks neuer Stargalerist. German Vogue, April 1997
  • West, Kevin. Matthews Mark. W, March 1997, 290-296
  • Yablonsky, Linda. Portrait of the Dealer as a Young Man. Out, November 1997.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Lisa Gubernick, De Koonings Uptown Upstart Art Dealer Slouches Toward Success Despite Slump, New York Observer, April 25, 1994.
  3. ^ Dodie Kazanjian, Marks and Sparks, Vogue, February 1995, 296
  4. ^ Matthew Marks, lhomme pressé. Beaux Arts, November 1993, 41.
  5. ^ About the Armory Show http://www.thearmoryshow.com/cgi-local/content.cgi?p=8&theme=default

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Matthew Barney — Barney talking at the Hirshhorn. Born March 25, 1967 (1967 03 25) (age 44) San Francisco, California, Unite …   Wikipedia

  • Matthew Brettingham — For his son, see Matthew Brettingham the Younger. Kedleston Hall was Brettingham s opportunity to prove himself capable of designing a house to rival great houses like Holkham Hall and Chatsworth House. The chance was snatched from him by Robert… …   Wikipedia

  • Decima gallery — is a London based arts projects organisation with a reputation for irreverent projects,[1] according to a 2008 article in The London Paper: ART for sex, gay claims for Jesus, pantomime cows – all standard fare for infamous London gallery Decima.… …   Wikipedia

  • Хьюм, Гэри — Гэри Хьюм Дата рождения: 1962 год(1962) Место рождения: Кент, Великобритания Жанр: живопись …   Википедия

  • Martin Honert — Martin Honert, Photo, 1993, epoxy, wood, and paint, 31 x 29 x 48 inches, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main …   Wikipedia

  • Jean-Marc Bustamante — Jean Marc Bustamante, né en 1952 à Toulouse,artiste français. Professeur à l Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux arts de Paris et à l Akademie der Bildenden Künste à Munich.Chevalier de la légion d honneur, Commandeur dans l ordre des Arts et… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Jean-marc bustamante — Cet article fait partie de la série Photographie …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Terry Winters — (born 1949 Brooklyn, New York) is a painter whose work reintroduced figuration into painting in way that was consonant with the Modernist legacy. Klaus Kertess wrote that “in the mid 1970s, Terry Winters and such peers as Carroll Dunham, Bill… …   Wikipedia

  • Darren Almond — Darren Almond, Fullmoon@Arondine, 2001, lambda print, 48 x 48 inches …   Wikipedia

  • Martin Honert — (* 1953 in Bottrop) ist ein zeitgenössischer deutscher Künstler. Untypisch für Künstler, deren Arbeiten in der Tradition des Readymade stehen, fertigt Honert seine Werke stets eigenhändig an. Zwischen 1981 88 studierte er an der Staatlichen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/9130781 Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”