Hoboken, New Jersey - Suckerpunch LLP proudly announces the grand opening of Suckerpunch Gallery in the Chambord factory building at 38 Jackson Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Suckerpunch partners Wayne Martin and Mark Rosenthal will host a by-invitation-only reception and opening show preview on Friday, June 18th.   The gallery opens to the public by appointment only beginning Monday, June 21st.  The multi-artist show will run through Friday, July 9th, and will feature nearly two-dozen original works of art including sculpture, paintings, pottery, drawings, prints, and photography.

Four area artists have been selected to appear in the grand opening salon show, including Stephen Byram of Guttenberg, New Jersey, Jamie Miller of Ridgewood, New Jersey, Stephen Coto of New York, New York, and David Changar of Bronx, New York.

Suckerpunch's managing partner, Wayne Martin, has curated the gallery's first show:

"We are delighted to have gathered a remarkable collection of original pieces from local artists who truly deserve the exclusive exposure that only a brick and mortar gallery can provide.  Suckerpunch's first public show represents the excellence and diversity we are dedicated to creating market awareness for."

Suckerpunch Gallery is the partner retail establishment for suckerpunchgallery.com, a fine art, handmade décor, and inspired design ecommerce web destination scheduled to launch early summer.  Suckerpunch LLP is a registered Industry Partner with the American Society of Interior Designers metropolitan New York City chapter.

For further information and artwork jpegs, contact Mr. Aaron Lazar at Suckerpunch: 201.706.7648 extension 102 or by emailing aaron@suckerpunch.us.com.

"Wayne Martin is the most delightful businessman we've met in a very long time, and we're so moved by his life story, his business philosophy, everything." Shoptalk, The Bergen Record

Suckerpunch's Wayne Martin got an early career start representing creative professionals in an endeavor that has now spanned nearly thirty years, whether it be in music or in the visual arts.

While still an undergraduate at Nashville's Belmont University, Martin was recruited by the monolithic CBS Records as a burgeoning marketing representative for their roster of artists at Columbia Records, Epic Records, and nearly a dozen other corporate partners and imprints.  He fostered an eight-year relationship with the record label where he consistently and unconventionally left one area of expertise to learn and explore another.  While representing hundreds of recording artists, Martin was awarded multiple gold and platinum albums as he traversed the disciplines of marketing, public relations, advertising, and sales in addition to his favorite role as an artist development specialist.

Counted among his trophies is the gold album "Different Light" from the all-girl-pop-group Bangles, the gold album "Chiseled In Stone" from country crooner Vern Gosdin, the gold album "Diesel And Dust" from the Aussie rock band Midnight Oil, and the six-time-platinum debut album from the once-unknown Mariah Carey.  Martin was also the youngest public relations expert to ever represent singer/songwriter/actress Dolly Parton; and he received a personal gesture of thanks from the legendary Billy Joel for the contributions he made to his career. Moreover, all of this had transpired by the time he had reached his mid-twenties.

He spent the next decade in the executive management of smaller, independent record companies, operating as an international music business consultant; and then taking a pivotal executive role leading the global music licensing division of the National Music Publishers Association.  During this same time period and just following an interview for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Martin was asked to join the staff of New York University as an adjunct assistant professor of marketing; to create and teach three different courses relating to the successful marketing of creative endeavors.

Managing businesses and teaching kept Martin away from what he does best:  translate business language and protocol at the uncomfortable intersection of art and commerce.  So in 2009, he began to realign his professional journey back to one-on-one development with artists, but this time around he would be the mouth-piece for art that would be entirely visual.

He and Suckerpunch partner Mark Rosenthal co-founded the company with the intent that Martin would be a managing partner responsible for most every aspect of the business.  Suckerpunch LLP is one part a visual artists representation initiative, two parts an art gallery complete with quarterly exhibitions and temporary retail pop-ups, and just a dash of home accessories online retailing that incorporates fine art and photography. Fundamentally, Suckerpunch is the outlet for Martin's next milestone of achievement - marketing the creative expressions of iconic visual artists in-the-making.

STEPHEN BYRAM is a groundbreaking music packaging designer and fine artist whose work has garnered him awards from the American institute of Graphic Arts, the New York Art Directors Club and the Diamond Awards Festival in Europe.  He has created iconic designs for musicians as disparate as the Beastie Boys and composer Philip Glass, and designed for Sony Music, BMG, Universal and MTV Networks.  His artwork has appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone.  Byram has been profiled on national public radio's Studio 360, in Eye Magazine, on VH1 Television, and his work has appeared in gallery showings in New York and Munich.  Stephen is a resident of Guttenberg, New Jersey.

DAVID CHANGAR holds a liberal arts degree from Hampshire College with a concentration in architecture and design.  All of his work is functional and of the highest quality stoneware and porcelain available, whether it be wheel-thrown, hand-built, or slip cast.  Changar's art can be found in corporate collections at Deutche Bank and Bank National De Paris as well as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  David is a resident of Bronx, New York.

ROBERT COTO, a native of Havana, Cuba who now calls new York City his home, attended Brooklyn's Pratt Institute where he earned a Bachelors degree in Fine Art, a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design, and a Masters degree in Fine Art.  A former Associate Studio Director for creative services, Coto has contributed to countless commercial packaging designs for CBS Records.  He has previously exhibited works in Boston, New Haven, and New York City.

JAMIE MILLER first began training her eye through a camera lens while working with commercial directors at television production houses.  Then, after upgrading from the small screen to the movie screen, Miller fine-tuned her visual perspective as she earned her stripes as an Assistant Director inside the director's guild of America.  As a burgeoning photographer, her creative vision now rejects the moving image entirely in order to capture singular, stolen moments only available through the medium of still photography.  She is a resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey.