Marc Straus - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Marc Straus. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jeanne Silverthorne “And the Unfathomable Night of Dreams Began”
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Katrina Andry “Into the Water and Out of the Fire”
MARC STRAUS presents Katrina Andry: Into the Water and Out of the Fire, an exhibition of works spanning from 2017 to the present. This will be Andry’s first one-person exhibition with the gallery. The...More »
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Omar Rodriguez-Graham Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents an exhibition of recent works by Mexico City based artist Omar Rodriguez-Graham. This will be Rodriguez-Graham’s third one-person exhibition with the gallery. Omar Rodriguez-Graham’s...More »
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Abdulnasser Gharem “Hospitable Thoughts”
MARC STRAUS presents its first solo exhibition with Abdulnasser Gharem. Abdulnasser Gharem (b. 1973) lives and works in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In Hospitable Thoughts, his first solo gallery exhibition...More »
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Rona Pondick “Grapefruit Platter, 2019-2021”
MARC STRAUS presents Rona Pondick’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Nearly a decade ago, building on the formal vocabulary of her earlier work, Pondick began experimenting with acrylic, resin,...More »
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Chris Jones Exhibition
This exhibition marks the 10th anniversary of Chris Jones’ (b. 1975) first solo show at the gallery. Chris Jones is a British sculptor who creates intricate and alluring sculptures from image fragments,...More »
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Thomas Bangsted Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our fourth solo exhibition of new works by Detroit based artist Thomas Bangsted (b. 1976, Denmark). Bangsted has always set about to make images that initially seem impossible...More »
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Renée Stout Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our first solo exhibition with Washington D.C. based artist Renée Stout (b. 1958). The exhibition is a survey of paintings and sculptures from recent years. Stout’s inspirations...More »
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“The Pattern Of Patience” Exhibition
Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud The Pattern of Patience is an exhibition that brings together ten artists from diverse cultural backgrounds whose works evoke topics of gender, race, and class in the face...More »
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Jong Oh Exhibition
The Korean artist Jong Oh (b. 1981) creates minimal sculptures that respond to the given spatial situation. We are proud to present Jong Oh’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. With the use of simple...More »
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José-Carlos Martinat “Ruinophilia”
Jose Carlos Martinat (b. 1974) lives and works in Lima, Peru. Martinat’s work is concerned with the social, cultural and political contexts of Latin America. He has a multidisciplinary practice that involves...More »
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Otis Jones Exhibition
“Devoid of pictorial motifs, narratives and at times even color, the work of Texas-based artist Otis Jones is muted yet intensely physical, and stubbornly original. Shunning the grandiose, Jones’ interests...More »
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Michael Brown Exhibition
Michael Brown has continued his “gold-leaf” painting series inaugurated in his first exhibition in September, 2019. The paint application is sculptural, heavy threads of oil paint are squeezed and woven...More »
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Marie Watt “Turtle Island”
Marie Watt (b.1967, Seattle) is a citizen of the Seneca Nation, the largest of six Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy. Mythologies and history from her Native American heritage inform her process and...More »
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“Duck Soup” Exhibition
“To describe the plot would be an exercise in futility, since a Marx Brothers movie exists in moments, bits, sequences, business and dialogue…” -Roger Ebert The Marx Brothers became leading comedians...More »
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Moris Exhibition
Moris (Israel Meza Moreno b. 1978, Mexico). Marc Straus presents new works by Moris, marking his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Moris grew up and continues to live and work in a Cartel-run...More »
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Omar Rodriguez-Graham Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a new series of paintings by the Mexican artist Omar Rodriguez-Graham. For its second solo exhibition with the artist, the gallery will showcase a series of works on canvas on shaped...More »
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Sandro Chia Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its third solo exhibition of works by Italian artist, Sandro Chia. Sandro Chia was one of the foremost artists during the resurgent interest in painting in the 1980s. He established...More »
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Jeanne Silverthorne Exhibition
Jeanne Silverthorne is among the leading sculptors to emerge in the late 80’s and early 90’s and she and her peers, especially women artists, looked to Eva Hesse and then Louise Bourgeois, in making work...More »
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Anna Leonhardt Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents new paintings by Anna Leonhardt (b. 1981, Germany) in her third solo show with the gallery. Leonhardt’s paintings are worlds within themselves and each one unveils a facet of her life....More »
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Tess Jaray “Aleppo Series”
MARC STRAUS presents its inaugural solo exhibition of London-based artist Tess Jaray (b. 1937, Austria, lives and works in London) with a selection of paintings from her recent Aleppo series. Since...More »
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Carlos Quintana Exhibition
Carlos Quintana (b.1966, Cuba), makes feverish paintings, he creates worlds onto themselves, or rather re-invents our world, but on his own terms. His inaugural exhibition at MARC STRAUS will feature ten...More »
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Michael Brown Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition of new work by Michael Brown. Marc and Livia Straus first came across Michael Brown (b. 1982, US) when he was an undergraduate art student. He was a precocious...More »
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Sinéad Breslin Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its inaugural exhibition with Sinéad Breslin (b. 1986, Ireland). Breslin has spent nearly a decade astutely observing the nuances of life around her and finding a singular way...More »
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“I Coulda Been a Contender” Exhibition
“I coulda been a contender!” The famous line by Terry Malloy, the washed-up boxer turned longshoreman played by Marlon Brando, epitomizes the theme of this exhibition: the focus is on the indomitable spirit,...More »
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Otis Jones “New Paintings & Rare Works from the 90s”
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition with Dallas based American artist Otis Jones. The exhibition will present new paintings alongside rarely seen works from the 1990s. Existing both as painting and...More »
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Folkert de Jong “Tumbler”
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition with Dutch artist Folkert de Jong “Tumbler” For his inaugural exhibition, Tumbler, de Jong obliquely critiques on political play and power structures, and for...More »
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Sandro Chia “Bronze, Paper, Watercolor”
Italian artist, Sandro Chia has painted 36 new watercolors on paper that are so recognizably his, and yet retain all the vigor of his large canvases. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a recent bronze...More »
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Paul Pretzer Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents Paul Pretzer’s fourth solo exhibition of new paintings. Pretzer returns to portraiture with his signature dark humor. Pretzer frequently references famous Renaissance paintings and...More »
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Jeanne Silverthorne Exhibition
MARC STRAUS Gallery presents an exhibition of seminal works by Jeanne Silverthorne, the first of a new on-going series of thematic exhibitions curated specifically for the gallery’s fourth floor loft...More »
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Chris Jones Exhibition
Chris Jones works with images found in discarded printed materials or culled from the endless online flow, generally beginning with a single photograph before sourcing further related imagery to extract...More »
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Ulf Puder Exhibition
“And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves...More »
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Zlatan Vehabović Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its third solo exhibition of new paintings by Croatian artist Zlatan Vehabović. Sometime during 2015, Croatian artist Zlatan Vehabović was informed that he was included in an artist...More »
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Rona Pondick Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our inaugural solo exhibition of Rona Pondick, featuring a new body of work five years in the making. In 2006, Rona Pondick was diagnosed with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, and...More »
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Paul Waldman Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its representation of artist Paul Waldman. Paul Waldman has been an artist for over sixty years and lives anew every day through his art. It is reifying and healing. It connects...More »
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Antonio Santín Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by Antonio Santín. Antonio Santín is well known for his adroit rendering of elegant Persian rugs that encapsulate technical precision...More »
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Jong Oh Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its fourth solo exhibition of Korean artist Jong Oh set in the new third and fourth floor gallery spaces. Oh’s work challenges an architecture that is not meant to impose or overbear...More »
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“Stereo Love Seat Hot Wheels” Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents STEREO LOVE SEATS HOT WHEELS, an exhibition focused on the seated object central to a work of art. Featuring the works of artists Mark Manders, Joel Otterson, Huma Bhabha, Red Grooms,...More »
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Han Jinsu Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its inaugural solo exhibition of Korean artist Han Jinsu. The exhibition will present new sculptures on the second floor and a special site-specific installation in the fourth floor...More »
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Doug Argue Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings by American artist Doug Argue. Doug Argue is a consummate painter capable of prodigious works that straddle realism and abstraction....More »
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Otis Jones Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our inaugural solo exhibition of Texas-based artist Otis Jones. The work of Otis Jones is hard to pin down. They are sculptural paintings where the process comes centerstage in...More »
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Xi Zhang Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents our inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings by Utah-based Chinese artist Xi Zhang. Cultural identity and immigration are the most decisive issues of the day in international...More »
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Clive Smith Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the gallery’s inaugural solo exhibition by British artist Clive Smith. In a series of new paintings, Clive Smith, a celebrated conceptual portraitist, eschews the human figure...More »
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Anna Leonhardt Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its second solo exhibition of German artist Anna Leonhardt. Since her successful inaugural exhibition in April 2016, Anna Leonhardt has continued her investigation into the unsettled...More »
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Thomas Bangsted Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its third solo exhibition of new works by Danish photographer Thomas Bangsted. In his new body of work, Thomas Bangsted considers remarkable World War II scenarios from the perspectives...More »
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Jeanne Silverthorne Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the inaugural solo exhibition of American sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne at the gallery. For more than three decades, Silverthorne has taken the studio as her subject. For Silverthorne...More »
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Hermann Nitsch Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the second solo exhibition of Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch at the gallery. To celebrate the occasion Nitsch concluded a landmark 75th Painting Action, comprising 12 paintings dedicated...More »
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“The White Heat” Exhibition
DARE you see a soul at the white heat? Then crouch within the door. Red is the fire’s common tint; But when the vivid ore Has sated flame’s conditions, Its quivering substance plays Without a color...More »
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Omar Rodriguez-Graham Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the inaugural solo exhibition of Mexican artist Omar Rodriguez-Graham in New York. Omar Rodriguez-Graham reads Renaissance paintings like an architectural diagram, extrapolating...More »
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Entang Wiharso Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the second solo exhibition of new works by artist, Entang Wiharso. Entang Wiharso, one of Indonesia’s leading contemporary artists, with his American partner and wife Christine...More »
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Sandro Chia Exhibition
It has been almost a decade since Sandro Chia showed new paintings in New York. Marc Straus Gallery, who now represents the Italian artist, presents a body of new paintings in a landmark exhibition. To...More »
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Liliane Tomasko Exhibition
In a career spanning over two decades, Liliane Tomasko has fashioned a unique and recognizable abstract language. Her subject matter is rooted in the domestic sphere: unmade beds, fabrics and linens contain...More »
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Ulf Puder Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its third solo exhibition of new paintings by the Leipzig painter Ulf Puder. Cezanne had his apples; Morandi, dusty ceramic vases. For Ulf Puder, urban architecture has been his...More »
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Todd Murphy Exhibition
Marc Straus presents the inaugural solo exhibition of mixed-media artist Todd Murphy. For over two decades, Todd Murphy has been exploring a practice that combines sculpture, painting and photography....More »
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Chris Jones Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its third solo exhibition of British artist Chris Jones, featuring new works made almost entirely of appropriated printed material. Chris Jones’ London studio is covered in images...More »
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“The Incredible Likeness of Being” Exhibition
MARC STRAUS present The Incredible Likeness of Being, a group exhibition that investigates the ‘Self’ through new paintings by five international contemporary artists: Zlatan Vehabovic, Yigal Ozeri, Erika...More »
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“If Only Bella Abzug Were Here” Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents “If Only Bella Abzug Were Here”, a group exhibition which commemorates the life and achievements of Bella Abzug with a selection of works by both established and emerging female artists,...More »
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Marin Majić and Anna Leonhardt Exhibition
Marin Majić opens his second one-person exhibit at the gallery. Through a vigorous process of painting and removing, his new paintings have an absolutely unique presence that needs to be seen in person...More »
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Antonio Santín Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the third one-person exhibition by Spanish painter Antonio Santín. Known for his luscious trompe l’oeil paintings of Oriental rugs rendered in oil on canvas, Santín’s investigation...More »
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Jong Oh Exhibition
Korean artist Jong Oh creates minimal sculptures that respond to the natural qualities of light and space of a site, and in the case of his third solo exhibition with MARC STRAUS Gallery, a light-filled...More »
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Paul Pretzer Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the third one-person show by Berlin-based painter Paul Pretzer, featuring new paintings created here during his three-month New York residency. After having been exhibited at numerous...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition of a new body of work by Jeffrey Gibson. Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), who is half Choctaw and half Cherokee, creates sculptures and paintings that intermingle traditional...More »
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Hermann Nitsch Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its first solo exhibition of work by Hermann Nitsch. The exhibition will feature 17 paintings by Nitsch, one of Austria’s most important artists, from his distinguished 55-year career. Nitsch’s...More »
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“Gray would be the color, if I had a heart.” Exhibition
Not completely hopeless. Not utterly bleak. Not fully shrouded in darkness. Gray allows for the possibility of distant optimism. This show assembles a group of artworks that evoke a particular feeling...More »
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Emil Alzamora Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents Emil Alzamora’s inaugural one-person exhibit at the gallery. Emil Alzamora’s (b. 1975, Peru) sculptures represent the human form reduced to its purist elements, as though distilled...More »
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Margaret Loy Pula and Lily Kelly Napangardi
MARC STRAUS presents the work of Margaret Loy Pula and Lily Kelly Napangardi, two of Australia’s leading Indigenous artists in their first gallery exhibit outside of Australia and Asia. Symbols, myth,...More »
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Sam Jinks Exhibition
A quiet sigh, the moment of contact in a gentle touch, a slight slouch in posture, a passing glance; Sam Jinks captures such transitory moments in his sculptures to call attention to the emotional weight...More »
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Kristján Gudmundsson Exhibition
For decades Kristján Gudmundsson has created artworks that capture the moment where concept collides with reality. Our notion of function is inverted through his inquiries; we no longer apprehend objects,...More »
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John Newsom Exhibition
John Newsom is a mid-career painter in full power. Beneath his thick and sensuous painted renderings of flora and fauna, is a grappling with the giants of abstraction. In Newsom’s 2015 catalog of work...More »
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Entang Wiharso Exhibition
MARC STRAUS announces an exhibition of new work by Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso. Internationally acknowledged as one of the most significant of his generation, this will be the artist’s first gallery...More »
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Ulf Puder Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition of new work by German artist Ulf Puder. This will be the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Puder’s paintings depict haunting environments filled with...More »
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Bettina Blohm Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by Bettina Blohm. This will be the artist’s first show with the gallery. Bettina Blohm has been refining her abstract paintings for nearly thirty...More »
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Birgit Brenner “Ten Code 56”
MARC STRAUS presents an exhibition of new work by German artist, Birgit Brenner. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery and will inaugurate our fall season. Birgit Brenner creates her...More »
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Jong Oh and Florian Schmidt “Along the Lines”
The work of this pair is connected through the use of straight lines, a removal of extraneous materials, and crisp formalism. However, to categorize them as minimalists as we are apt to does not fit comfortably....More »
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Chris Jones Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents British sculptor Chris Jones’ second solo exhibition at the gallery. Jones’s sculptures are constructed from materials most have come to disregard, abandon due to the rise of the...More »
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Zlatan Vehabović Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its second solo show of new paintings by Croatian artist Zlatan Vehabović. Vehabović’s current body of work embodies literary adventure themes, such as men at sea and fantastical...More »
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“Not For All My Little Words” Exhibition
The perpetual struggle to find the right words to communicate meaning is often tantamount to shouting into a void. Trying to connect with a too-huge world frequently hinges on achieving a carefully balanced...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents new work by Jeffrey Gibson. This exhibition will be the second solo show of Gibson’s work at the gallery. Jeffrey Gibson’s paintings and sculptures are inspired by the traditional...More »
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Thomas Bangsted “Mike”
MARC STRAUS presents “Mike,” its third exhibition of photographs by Thomas Bangsted. Bangsted’s images typically require up to three years to complete. These aggregations of numerous exposures extend the...More »
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Martha Mysko “Wallflowers”
MARC STRAUS presents its second exhibition of new work by Martha Mysko. Martha Mysko’s sculptures and installations initially appear to be the sites of domestic chaos. Her sculpture is made of every...More »
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Charles Hinman “6 Decades”
MARC STRAUS presents Charles Hinman - 6 Decades. In six decades Mr. Hinman has proven to be a steadfast and visionary artist who has influenced generations of artists. His unique hard-edge shaped minimal...More »
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Jong Oh Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the first one-person gallery exhibition of Jong Oh. From Korea, age 30, Jong is a recent Master’s graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. There is no easy description...More »
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Antonio Santin Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents its second one person exhibition of Antonio Santin’s paintings. There are two connected themes in this new body of paintings: women in lavish settings and highly stylized Eastern rugs....More »
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Jeff Talman “Silicaphonics-14”
Jeff Talman is an acclaimed sound artist whose new “reflexive resonance” work is made for MARC STRAUS. His installations are often based in spatial or object-oriented resonance, i.e. tones extracted from...More »
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“Masterprints of Contemporary Art” Exhibition
Jasper Johns sparked a revival in print making in America with his historic collaboration at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) founded by Tatyana Grosman, where in 1960 they published FLAG I and TARGET....More »
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“On Deck” Exhibition
ON DECK is a group exhibition referencing baseball terminology for the next batter in line. Fourteen artists from ten countries will queue up for this year’s summer show at MARC STRAUS providing an...More »
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John Newsom “Bestiary”
John Newsom’s “Bestiary” is his first one-person exhibition in NY in seven years and in this interval he has honed his remarkable skills as one of our consummate painters of his generation. At first blush...More »
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Leonardo Silaghi Exhibition
Silaghi’s paintings are intuitive and gestural with a narrative of ruin - of entropy, of decay, of decomposition. Within his grey abstractions one can glimpse broken conveyor belts, washing machines, crumbling...More »
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Jeff Wall and Thomas Bangsted Exhibition
In Jeff Wall’s most renowned black and white photograph, Rear, 304 E. 25 Ave., May 20, 1.14 & 1.17 P.M. (1997), a young woman is standing underneath a cheap wooden patio. Here, as with almost all of...More »
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Paul Pretzer Exhibition
Paul Pretzer's paintings result from deep observations of the history of classical painting. Summoning Velazquez' somber depictions of clerics, Goya’s macabre figures, Munch's intensely introspective portraits,...More »
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Marin Majic Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the first one-person exhibition of work by Marin Majic. Marin Majic, who resides in Berlin, creates paintings that present a vision of unsettling idyll. He draws imagery from varied...More »
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"NOTHING AND EVERYTHING" Exhibition
This exhibition features artworks by Carl Andre, Larry Bell, Robert Barry, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, and Jong Oh in which the artists have manipulated the most basic of materials to create objects...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson Exhibition
Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, England and elsewhere. He is also a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique...More »
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Charles Hinman Exhibition
An American pioneer of hard-edged shaped canvases, Charles Hinmanʼs work received immediate global acclaim in 1964 – 5, with work at Sidney Janis Gallery and a one-person exhibition at Richard Feigen Gallery....More »
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"Yogyakarta: Five Artists from Indonesia" Exhibition
The art world is now global, and China has surpassed London as the second largest market. Art from India is booming onto western markets. The Hong Kong Art Fair is now owned by the venerable Basel Art...More »
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Sven Kroner Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by German artist Sven Kroner. At first glance, the work of Sven Kroner may seem like a simple tribute to nature. Inspired by traditional landscape...More »
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Martha Mysko Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents an exhibition of new work by Martha Mysko on the occasion of her first solo exhibition. Martha Mysko uses desolated materials to create restless compositions that upon close inspection...More »
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Antonio Santin Exhibition
Marc Straus presents an exhibition of new paintings by Antonio Santin on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in New York. Santin constructs arresting compositions that simultaneously attract...More »
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Jong Oh Exhibition
MARC STRAUS presents the first one-person gallery exhibition of Jong Oh. From Korea, age 30, Jong is a recent Master’s graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. There is no easy description...More »
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Chris Jones Exhibition
MARC STRAUS announces an exhibition of new works by British sculptor Chris Jones. Jones creates sculptures composed of fragmented images from magazines and used books that are beautiful, frightening,...More »
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Thomas Bangsted Exhibition
MARC STRAUS announces an exhibition of new works by Danish photographer Thomas Bangsted. This will be the artist's first solo show in the United States. This exhibition is comprised of mostly large scale...More »
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Birgit Brenner Exhibition
MARC STRAUS announces an exhibition of new works by German artist Birgit Brenner. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in the US and will inaugurate the gallery's new space at 299 Grand Street...More »
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Zlatan Vehabovic Exhibition
MARC STRAUS announces an exhibition of new paintings by Croatian artist Zlatan Vehabovic. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in the US and will inaugurate the gallery's new space at 299 Grand...More »