NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery is pleased to announce that Vanessa Suchar-Marcus has joined the gallery effective immediately. The new appointment is the next phase in the gallery’s continued expansion in the US.
“Vanessa is an established contemporary art and design dealer, and she brings to Carpenters Workshop Gallery extensive experience in building private collections and nurturing artist’s careers,” said Cédric Morisset, Global Director of Carpenters Workshop Gallery. “She will elevate the gallery’s presence on the West Coast, beginning with San Francisco, an increasingly international collecting market.”
On the heels of the November 2015 opening of its first US exhibition space in New York, Carpenters Workshop Gallery made its Chicago debut this past September at the 5th edition of EXPO Chicago, the international contemporary and modern art fair. Suchar-Marcus’s appointment underscores the gallery’s commitment to developing the US market, and specifically the West Coast including: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver.
Suchar-Marcus has spent nearly two decades at the helm of Le Salon For Art Collectors, a London-based firm she founded in 1997 dedicated to the development and promotion of international emerging and mid-career artists. In true salon style, Suchar-Marcus has mounted exhibitions within private residences internationally. Now based in San Francisco, her personal, beyond-the-white-cube format has proved compelling for serious collectors, and has made contemporary art engaging and accessible for new collectors.
Prior to earning her Master’s in Modern and Contemporary Art from Christies, London, Suchar-Marcus worked in business development for Gap and Banana Republic in New York where she led the launch of the retail brands into Latin America and the Caribbean.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression. Actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited, the gallery’s choices are guided by the research of an emotional, artistic and historical relevance; a relevance that appears as an evidence. The first space Julien and Loic opened in 2006 was a former carpenter’s workshop in Chelsea, London, following with a second space in Mayfair in 2008. In 2011 they opened a 600 square meter space in Paris, in the heart of Le Marais district, an address steeped in history as it was previously occupied by the Galerie de France. 2015 marked a major turning point for the gallery with the opening of Carpenters Workshop | Roissy, a unique space dedicated to artistic research and development, bringing together the elite of artisans, an homage to the French heritage of ‘Arts Décoratifs’. Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is the latest step in the gallery’s remarkable development. This new space confirms the leadership and dominant position of the gallery in today’s international territory of art and design. Starting September 2016 until June 2017, the gallery will be celebrating its ten year anniversary, with a special program of exhibitions, events and many surprises dedicated to a decade at the forefront of collectible design.
