About Us
MARC STRAUS, a contemporary art gallery, opened September 2011 on the Lower Eastside in New York. January 2012 MARC STRAUS moved to its permanent location at 299 Grand Street, a fully reconstructed three-story building that began as a tenement and in the last century has housed various retail stores consistent with a changing population. Marc says, “My roots are here. This is an area now with yet another life, vital to the emerging art scene. 299 is a homecoming – it's just across the street from the textile store my immigrant father had owned and where I worked from childhood until I graduated medical school.”
MARC STRAUS is a gallery that continues the tradition of its founder in identifying and fostering some of the best new international art talent. 14 artists are represented from 9 countries most of whom have not shown before in the US.
Marc Straus
Marc Straus and his wife Livia have been collecting art since age twenty mostly focused on new and emerging artists. In 2013, THE STRAUS COLLECTION: STUDIO VISIT will open at the new Tel Aviv Museum Amir building. In 2004 the Strauses founded The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, (HVCCA) a public museum in Peekskill, New York. Marc is a Professor of Medicine and a renowned poet.
James Cope - Director
For the past six years James Cope was Associate Curator of The Goss-Michael Foundation where he organized over thirty major exhibitions including retrospective surveys on Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Jim Lambie and Michael Craig-Martin. He has also curated many independent exhibitions and has given numerous museum lectures and written for art publications worldwide.
For more information please contact the gallery at info@marcstraus.com.