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VIP Opening Preview: December 3rd

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2013

Contessa Gallery Announces Exhibition, Chuck Close: Radical Innovator, November 8, 2013 - January 12, 2014

Contessa Gallery is pleased to present a solo-exhibition of important Chuck Close works in a variety of media. Working almost exclusively in the subject of portraiture, Chuck Close has been consistently breaking artistic boundaries with his printmaking for more than 40 years. The 39 works in this exhibition span Chuck Close's career and will feature limited edition prints (including new revolutionary archival watercolor pigment prints and felt hand stamps, mezzotint, aquatints, etchings, linocuts, screenprints, woodcuts, and paper pulp works), photography (including unique Polaroid prints, daguerreotypes, and gridded working maquettes, as well as woodburytypes), and large-scale Jacquard tapestries. 

The Club at Sea Fair will be at the 54th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.

VIP Preview:
October 31st, 10am - 7pm
General Admission:
November 1st - 3rd, 10am - 7pm
November 4th, 10am - 5pm

The fair will take place at the following location:
Bahia Mar Yachting Center
801 Seabreeze Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

NASHVILLE — The work of Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer will be on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from July 12-Oct. 13 in the Center‟s Upper-Level Galleries.

The first major museum exhibition of the artist‟s work, “Jack Spencer: Beyond the Surface” is composed of 70 photographs — selected by the artist and Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Center — that reveal the artist‟s interest in the ephemerality of life, the subjectivity of perception and the overriding value of beauty.

Spencer is renowned for his toned photographs and Southern subjects, but for many years he has focused on other regions and produced color work that approaches pure abstraction.

VIP Opening Preview: July 25th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2013

Contessa Gallery Announces Exhibition, Lens of a Legend: Harry Benson Photographs, May 31 – July 7, 2013

Contessa Gallery is pleased to present a one-man exhibition by the award-winning photographer Harry Benson. Arriving in America with the Beatles in 1964, Benson has spent his six-decade career photographing politicians, musicians, actors, athletes, writers, artists, soldiers, and activists. Considered the finest photographic chronicler of American pop culture, Benson has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Barack Obama. He was feet away when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated; in the room when Nixon resigned; with Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Meredith march; and with Coretta Scott King at her husband’s funeral. Benson chronicled the building of the Berlin wall and its fall, and covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Benson has had more than forty solo gallery exhibitions and has had sixteen books of his photography published. Contessa Gallery’s exhibition, Lens of a Legend: Harry Benson Photographs, is in conjunction with the release of Benson’s newest book, The Beatles: On the Road 1964-1966. 

Contessa Gallery is pleased to share that Harry Benson is featured in the May 2013 issue of Art & Culture Magazine in John Loring's article, "The Canny and Eloquent Mr. Benson."

Contessa Gallery is proud to announce that its exhibition, The Image Within: Alex G. Cao (November 16 - December 31, 2012), was well-received by Steven Litt in his "Review: Alex G. Cao" for the March 2013 edition of ARTnews.

The fair will take place at the following location:

The Art Miami Pavilion
Midtown Miami | Wynwood
3101 NE 1st Avenue (between 31st and 32nd)
Miami, FL 33137

Please visit us at Booth B17.

The fair will take place at the following location:

Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401

Please visit us at Booth 210.