NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announces an exhibition of new works by German artist Birgit Brenner. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US and inaugurates the gallery’s new space at 299 Grand Street (between Allen and Eldridge). For this, her first solo show in the U.S., Brenner has expanded her visual language with works not easily classified as painting, sculpture, or drawing. While structurally mining some Beuysian territory, Brenner’s work is highly personal, concerned with social issues as loneliness, isolation, and aging. Some works evolve almost cinematically based on stories written by the artist. Humans experience difficult contradictions and are buffeted by uncertainities and fears. We make do, we rationalize, but always the remnants have resonance;