ROBERT SWEDROE:

Narrative Assemblage and Cyber Series Collage



Robert Swedroe emerged onto the art scene in 1963 with a series of solo exhibitions in New York and Miami. Over the next decade, his collages and assemblages received critical acclaim and sold out exhibitions. As a young architect who had studied at Carnegie and Yale under Josef Albers, Paul Rudolph, Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, and Mies van der Rohe, Swedroe’s talents as artist and architect fed one another. Swedroe’s contribution to the sphere of architecture is recognized worldwide and graces skylines of North and South America, Europe and Asia. His professional mastery of structure, form and balance contribute a sense of proportion and discipline to his collage and assemblage work. Over 40 years following his early exhibitions, this interplay of design aesthetics culminates in an entirely new series of multimedia constructions – one that reflects Swedroe’s personal vision of the structural and visual composition of the world around us.



ART FAIRS 2010


Art Palm Beach        January 15 – 19, 2010

The Armory Show -  March 4 – 7, 2010
Modern

Art Chicago              April 30 – May 3, 2010



ART FAIRS 2009


Art Miami                 December 2 - December 6, 2009

Art Chicago             May 1 – May 4, 2009



ART FAIRS 2008


Palmbeach3            January 11 – 14, 2008

Los Angeles
Art Show                January 23 – 27, 2008

ArtHamptons           July 11 – 13, 2008

ART Santa Fe         July 11 – 13, 2008

USArtists -
Philadelphia             October 17 – 19, 2008

Art Miami                  December 3 - 7, 2008



ART FAIRS 2007


Art Miami                 January 5 – 8, 2007

Palmbeach3            January 12 – 15, 2007

Bridge Art Fair -
Chicago                   April 26 – 30, 2007

ART Santa Fe         July 12 – 15, 2007   
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Art International –
San Francisco        September 28 – 30, 2007

USArtists -
Philadelphia             October 19 – 21, 2007

Art Miami                 December 6 – 10, 2007


 
 

THE ART OF PHILANTHROPY


We strive to make the community proud through our integrity, creativity, dedication,  service and philanthropic efforts. Contessa Gallery has given major support to:


        Cleveland Public Art:

  • Primary donor and presenting sponsor of the public exhibition “Spiders” by Louise Bourgeois, Cleveland Theater District, Star Plaza, Summer 2002

        Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA):

  • Exclusive Sponsor of POPulence, Fall 2005
  • Supporting Sponsor for the collaboration of Cleveland Museum of Art and MOCA: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art,    Summer 2006
  • Platino Level Supporting Sponsor of “La Vida MOCA!”, Annual Benefit Gala,
    honoring Toby Devan Lewis, 2006
  • Exclusive Sponsor for the collaboration of Cleveland Museum of Art and MOCA: Richard Stankiewicz and John Chamberlain, Winter/Spring 2007
  • Guilty Love Level Supporting Sponsor of the Annual Benefit Gala,
    Honoring Marjorie Talalay, 2007
  • Supporting Sponsor of The Business of Art Educational Panel, 2007


Akron Art Museum:

  • Sponsor of the Public Symposium “Up Close and Personal with Chuck Close’s Friends” hosted by the Akron Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition “Familiar Faces: Chuck Close in Ohio Collections”, October 11, 2009.
  • Exclusive Sponsor of the Lenders and Sponsors Brunch preceding the Public Symposium, October 2009.
  • Exclusive Sponsor of the new Akron Art Museum’s Major Donor Reception, July 11, 2007
  • A key sponsor of the Akron Art Museum’s Defy Gravity opening gala, July 7, 2007
  • Exclusive sponsor of the program booklet for the new Akron Art Museum’s Defy Gravity opening gala, July 7, 2007


The Human Fund:



  • Sponsor and curator of The Silent Auction Art Benefit at The pARTy, a benefit to help save art programs that touch kids in the City of Cleveland, 2005
  • Sponsor of the Art Auction at L’Art du Vin, a Wine and Art Auction to benefit The Human Fund
  • Major donor to the Human Fund


        Playhouse Square Foundation:


  • Gold Founder Patron Level Donor to the second largest performing arts complex in the United States


        Additional Support Given To:


  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
  • The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
  • The Cleveland Institute of Art
  • Intermuseum Conservation Association
  • Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio
  • The Cleveland Orchestra
  • Verb Ballets, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Angle Magazine, Cleveland, Ohio
 
 
 
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