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.
History Matthew Marks worked for the Pace Gallery in New York City and Anthony d'Offay in London prior to opening his own gallery.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. After working for three years at d'Offay, Marks moved back to New York City to open his own gallery, a space on Madison Avenue. The Matthew Marks Gallery had its first exhibition, Artists' Sketchbooks, in February 1991, including Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Jackson Pollock, and Cy Twombly.
Matthew Marks Gallery opened its first space in Chelsea — a converted single-story garage with skylights at 522 West 22nd StreetMichael Kimmelman (November 1, 1998), A New Chelsea and the Evanescence of Chic New York Times. — in 1994, with a show of Ellsworth Kelly.Carol Vogel (September 29, 2011), That Gallery Facade Sure Looks Familiar New York Times. In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries – Gladstone Gallery and Metro Pictures – to acquire and divide up a warehouse at 515 West 24th Street.Sarah Douglas (December 17, 2020), In Making Gavin Brown a Partner, Barbara Gladstone Is Betting That You Can Get Big and Still Think Small ARTnews. By 1997, the gallery closed its space on Madison Avenue. Over the following years, two more spaces in Chelsea were added.Roberta Smith (November 28, 2004), Chelsea Enters Its High Baroque Period New York Times. 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.Roberta Smith (August 2, 2018), Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art New York Times.
In 2012, Matthew Marks Gallery opened two locations in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, both designed by Peter Zellner.David Ng (October 24, 2012), Los Angeles Times.
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. 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. 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.
Artists Matthew Marks represents living artists, including: Darren Almond (since 2000) Nayland Blake (since 1993)Coco Romack (October 14, 2019), An Artist’s Personal Museum in Brooklyn T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Leidy Churchman (since 2018) Vija Celmins (since 2015)Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015), Changing Galleries New York Times. Alex Da Corte (since 2021) Trisha Donnelly (since 2015) Katharina Fritsch (since 1994)Daniel Grant (June 10, 2008), ‘Committed’ Collectors Snap Up Katharina Fritsch’s Iconic Works ARTnews. Robert Gober (since 2002) Gary Hume (since 1991) Jasper Johns (since 2005) Simone Leigh (since 2021)Julia Halperin (November 30, 2021), Simone Leigh, the Celebrated Sculptor Who Left Hauser and Wirth After Less Than Two Years, Has Joined Matthew Marks ARTnews. Julien Nguyen (since 2019) Charles Ray (since 2006) Terry Winters (since 1996) Peter Fischli David Weiss (since 1998)Daniel Grant (January 26, 2010), U.S. Following Grows for Fischli & Weiss ARTnews.
In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: Peter CainAndrew Russeth(November 28, 2016), Peter Cain Now Has an Online Catalogue Raisonné ARTnews. Ellsworth Kelly (since 1992)Holland Cotter (December 27, 2015), Ellsworth Kelly, Who Shaped Geometries on a Bold Scale, Dies at 92 New York Times. Michel Majerus Ken Price (since 2002)Andrew Russeth (February 24, 2012), Ken Price, Inventive and Irreverent Sculptor, Dies at 77 The New York Observer. Anne Truitt
In the past, the gallery has worked with the following artists and estates: Nan Goldin (1992–2018)Louisa Buck (November 21, 2019), Nan Goldin brings her empathy and activism to London The Art Newspaper. Andreas Gursky (1996–2010)Sarah Douglas (September 30, 2011), Musing On Marks’ New LA Space The New York Observer. Roni Horn (from 1992) Peter Hujar Brice Marden (1991–2017)Robin Pogrebin (January 12, 2017), Brice Marden Joining Gagosian Gallery New York Times.Julie Belcove (September 29, 2017), Brice Marden: When the grass is greener Financial Times. Tony Smith (until 2017)Nate Freeman (March 1, 2017), Pace Now Represents the Estate of Tony Smith ARTnews. Hiroshi Sugimoto Sam Taylor-Wood (from 2000)
References
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.
External links
Matthew Marks Gallery at artnet.com