Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American
Last Year: 27
Some called it a response to the downward-spiralling economy, the fact that Matthew Marks was conspicuously absent from this year’s Armory Show (which, we seem destined to remind you in these pages, the dealer had a hand in beginning back in 1994, when it was the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair). But if you were paying attention, you would have noticed that in addition to impressive booths at Art Basel Miami Beach and the well-heeled Art Show, Marks did a turn at Design Miami. With a spare booth dedicated to the ‘domestic furniture’ of Roy McMakin, Marks demonstrated a flexibility that few gallerists would, or could, risk.