Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of

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and the Los Angeles neighborhood of

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. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in

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, film, and drawings and prints. The gallery has three exhibition spaces in New York City and two in Los Angeles.

Artists

Matthew Marks represents numerous living artists, including: *

Darren Almond Darren James Almond (born August 1971, Appley Bridge, Lancashire) is an English artist, based in London. He was nominated for the 2005 Turner Prize. Life and career Almond graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1993, with a BA (hons) deg ...

(since 2000) *

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(since 1993) * Leidy Churchman (since 2018) *

Vija Celmins Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;Hilarie M. Sheets and Randy Kennedy (September 24, 2015)''New York Times''. lv, Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and dr ...

(since 2015) * Alex Da Corte (since 2021) * Trisha Donnelly (since 2015) *

Katharina Fritsch Katharina Fritsch (born 14 February 1956) is a German sculptor."Katharina Fritsch: Arti ...

(since 1994) *

Robert Gober Robert Gober (born September 12, 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs. Early life and education Gober was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and studied literatu ...

(since 2002) *

Gary Hume Gary Stewart Hume (born 9 May 1962) is an English artist. Hume's work is strongly identified with the YBA who came to prominence in the early 1990s. Hume lives and works in London and Accord, New York.

(since 1991) *

Jasper Johns Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related top ...

(since 2005) * Simone Leigh (since 2021) * Julien Nguyen (since 2019) * Charles Ray (since 2006) * Terry Winters (since 1996) * Peter Fischli David Weiss (since 1998) In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: *

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Ellsworth Kelly Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, c ...

(since 1992) * Michel Majerus * Ken Price (since 2002) * Anne Truitt In the past, the gallery has worked with the following artists and estates: *

Nan Goldin Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ...

(1992–2018) *

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

(1996–2010) *

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

(from 1992) *

Peter Hujar Peter Hujar (October 11, 1934 – November 26, 1987) was an American photographer best known for his black and white portraits. He has been recognized posthumously as a major American photographer of the late-twentieth century. Yet Hujar's work r ...

Brice Marden Brice Marden (born October 15, 1938) is an American artist generally described as Minimalist, although his work may be hard to categorize. He lives and works in New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, Greece; and Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania. Lif ...

(1991–2017) * Tony Smith (until 2017) *

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(from 2000)

History

Matthew Marks worked for the

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in New York City and

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in London prior to opening his own gallery. 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

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, and

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. Matthew Marks Gallery opened its first space in Chelsea — a converted single-story garage with skylights at 522 West 22nd Street — in 1994, with a show of Ellsworth Kelly. In 1996, the gallery teamed up with two other galleries – Gladstone Gallery and

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– to acquire and divide up a warehouse at 515 West 24th Street. By 1997, the gallery closed its space on Madison Avenue. Over the following years, two more spaces in Chelsea were added. Since 1998, Matthew Marks Gallery and another gallery—first Pat Hearn Gallery (1998), later

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(2008, 2018)—have organized "Painting: Now and Forever", a large-scale, ongoing survey of contemporary painting, every 10 years. In 2012, Matthew Marks Gallery opened two locations in

, Los Angeles, both designed by Peter Zellner. Marks is married to Jack Bankowsky, a former editor of ''

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'' magazine and art critic and curator.

The Armory Show

In 1994, the Gramercy International Art Fair, now called

The Armory Show The Armory Show is an international art fair in New York City, known as New York's Art Fair. Established in 1994 as the Gramercy International Art Fair by dealers Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Lisa Spellman, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, the annua ...

, made its debut in New York's

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. 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

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that plagued the 1980s.

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'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.

References

External links

*
Matthew Marks Gallery at artnet.com
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Artists

History

The Armory Show

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