Marta and Catalog Sale present Make-Do, on view in tandem with NYC × Design and its attendant celebrations. Presenting twelve historic instances of ad-hoc chairs in dialogue with a dozen contemporary entries realized in the same spirit, the exhibition hosts a menagerie of unique seating works that celebrate the variegated meeting-points of form, function, materiality, and improvisation. Featuring new pieces from New York-based artists and designers Joseph Algieri, Samuel Brockman, Sarah Burns, Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Miles Huston, Sebastijan Jemec & Georgia McGovern, Minjae Kim, Nifemi Ogunro, Isabel Rower, Shaina Tabak, Brendan Timmins, and Kristen Wentrcek & Andrew Zebulon, Make-Do is the inaugural curatorial collaboration between New York alternative auction house Catalog Sale and Marta. Here, the oft-maligned practice of ‘making-do’—embracing the simultaneous limitations of materials, tools, space, and time (constraints all to familiar to New York’s denizens)—is instead exalted as creative opportunity, with the works on view acting as abstracted portraits of the city itself. Join us for the public opening of Make-Do on Friday, May 19 from 6 – 9PM at 5 Chatham Square, New York, NY 10038.

Marta is delighted to be working with Bennet Schlesigner following the artist’s recent and foundational tenure with friend and colleague Sebastian Gladstone. We initially had the pleasure of experiencing Bennet’s outstanding sculptures and light works several years ago amidst the galleries’ joint Holiday Fete, and have been admirers of the California artist’s practice since. The gallery will host a solo exhibition of new works by Schlesigner in 2024. For all inquiries and commissions related to the artist’s past and ongoing works, kindly email — information@marta.la

The gallery recently had the pleasure of hosting a new body of glass works by Japanese-American designer Jonah Takagi. The eight tonal assemblies in Brut Vessels take their name from Béton Brut building methods—namely those of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, the site of the residency programme at Le Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts Plastiques (Cirva) that facilitated the creation of Takagi’s vision. View the exhibition’s works here.