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PHOTOS: Gallery Valentine Kicks Off Art Southampton

The official host gallery for Art Southampton builds anticipation for the July art fair.

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Gallery Valentine in East Hampton, the host gallery of Art Southampton, celebrated its new space June 15 with a pre-party for the art fair coming up in July.

Art Southampton, which is returning for its second summer, is an international modern and contemporary art fair under a tent on the fairgrounds of the Southampton Elks Lodge. It is bringing more than 90 galleries from all over the world to Southampton from July 25 to 29.

The fair benefits Southampton Hospital, both financially and by donating the use of its tent to the hospital’s annual summer party, which is a major fundraising event for the emergency department.

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Gallery Valentine, which recently moved from Main Street to Newtown Lane, is owned by Ryan Ross and Tommy Mottola.

In addition to the gallery owners, June 15’s event was hosted by Josh Guberman, of The Guberman Group, and Art Southampton's Nick Korniloff and Pamela Cohen. Guest included Dorothy Lichtenstein, Sara Herbert Galloway and Barry Klarberg, Ron Burkhardt, Cassandra Seidenfeld, Madison Collum, Dr. Matt Kaufman, Kevin and Isabel Richards, Clif De Raita, Bruce Michael, David and Carolyne Levinbrook, Neil and Lana Levinbrook, Caroline Lieberman, Allison Downey, David and Morgan Shara, Kristine King, Danielle Quellar, Susan Israelson, Samantha Yanks, Susan Breitenbach and Debra Halpert, Mets pitcher John Franco, sculptor and painter Hal Buckner, his son actor Troy Buckner, Tatiana Okshteyan, the owner of Black & White Gallery, and artist and designer Scott Tucker.

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Gallery Valentine is planning an Andy Warhol exhibition at Art Southampton, and a discussion with Bob Colacello, the former Interview magazine editor and author of “Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up,” Lana Jokel, a filmmaker and director of “Andy Warhol,” Ultra Violet, a Warhol superstar, Vincent Fremont, a filmmaker and producer, and Christina Strassfield, the chief curator at Guild Hall Museum.


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