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Trey Speegle
Special Interest Event
Benrimon Contemporary
September 16, 2010
6pm - 9pm
For immediate release
Benrimon Contemporary is pleased to announce a special one-night-only benefit exhibit introducing the work of gallery artist Trey Speegle. 10% of the evening’s sales and a silent auction of works by Speegle will go to benefit The Trevor Project.
Seventeen works dating from 2005 to the present will be exhibited as an exclusive preview before Speegle’s solo exhibition at the gallery in February of 2011. Using one of the world’s largest collections of vintage paint-by-number paintings as inspiration, Trey explores themes of hope, love, longing and loss by combining them with affirmations, double entrendre, and word play that resonate with a broad Pop appeal. The most recent work in the exhibition, Once Wants More, exemplifies Speegle’s ability to layer visual interest with subtext and multiple meaning by appropriating a simple still life of roses.
Trey has been involved with the work of The Trevor Project for over a decade. A nonprofit endeavor established to promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, it aids in suicide prevention among these adolescents. The Trevor Project was founded by Trey’s good friend writer James Lecesne, director/producer Peggy Rajski and the late Randy Stone, creators of the 1994 Oscar-winning short film, Trevor. Trevor is the first and only nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ youths. Today, in addition to operating the crisis and suicide prevention lifeline, The Trevor Project provides online support to young people through the organization’s Web site, as well as lifesaving guidance and vital resources for educators and parents. For more information go to their website at thetrevorproject.org or contact XXX XXXXX at XXX.trevor.org.
Speegle has spent the better part of the past two decades in publishing at such publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Radar and Us Weekly. He returned to exhibiting five years ago and in addtion to exhibiting across the country, he recently collaborated with Anthpologie to adapt his work to a variety of decorative ofjects, some of which are part of the evening’s silent auction. Speegle was also commissioned in 2009 by Stella McCartney to create a 18 x 32’ painting as a backdrop for her runway show in Paris. A smaller version of that work created for McCartney, YES (you complete the picture), is included this exhibit. He divides his time between a studio in the Meatpacking District and his converted barn in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
Benrimon Contemporary is located at 514 West 24th Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011 between 10th and 11th Avenues. Our hours are Monday to Saturday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 12pm to 6pm.
For further information or images, please contact Molly Sampson at 212.924.2400 or molly@bcontemporary.com.
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