It was out on the streets of New York City that New York native Marco, honed both his style, his brand, and his sales approach. With MARCOART, his first retail store / studio / boutique in the Lower East Side, Marco quickly established a base of operations from 1993 to 2005. His entrepreneurial spirit attracted the attention of a local real estate agent and the newly formed Lower East Side Business Improvement District who invited Marco to join as a commercial member. He re-located his retail operation and was soon approached by Swatch Watch to design what later became the best-selling Artist Swatch of all time.
Unicef also commissioned Marco to create a series of products including coffee cups, giant floor puzzles, and placemats which it sold in through it’s catalogs with all the proceeds going to fight poverty in the Third World.
As ambassador to the Lower East Side, Marco presented electronic music legend Moby with an original acrylic on canvas tribute painting in his then newly opened downtown hotspot Teany. He sold iconoclastic Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar special limited edition hand-pulled silkscreen prints at his studio/boutique.
For Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathway as in-house artist, he muralized an entire cafeteria and created original Acrylic on Canvas tribute Portraits of: Shaq, Wayne Gretzky, Flava Flave, Dwayne Wade, Carmello Anthony, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Usher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Jonas Brothers, and NYC Police Chief Esposito, to name just a few.
Marco is currently working on separate exclusive European/Japanese, and American Licensing programs, a series of children’s books, a vast line of licensed products, an animated children’s cartoon, a TV show, an illustrated novel & has and continues to donate his artwork to the philanthropic gala fund-raisers of thousands of charitable organizations.
FAO Schwarz in partnership with Toys R Us opened the Marco Pop Shop on Fifth Avenue this fall!
Visit http://www.MuseumMasters.com for more information.
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