Details/Media Release
The Mismeasure of nature

B  E  T  T  C  H  E  R
G  A  L  L  E  R  Y

MARC DENNIS

the mismeasure of nature

OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST:
Saturday-November 27, 2004
7 PM - 11 PM

MIAMI, November 27, 2004.  Bettcher Gallery proudly announces our most imperative exhibit to date and the Miami debut of acclaimed New York City artist, Marc Dennis with a solo exhibition,
The Mismeasure of Nature. By appropriating imagery through his visually decadent and classical painting style, Marc Dennis attempts at infusing the notions of beauty and seduction with new symbolic criteria and attitude through images of the natural world.

Please join us in welcoming Dennis as we open The Mismeasure of Nature on Saturday, November 27 from 7-11PM.  The exhibit remains on display through ArtBasel-Miami, where Dennis will be exhibiting his recent drawings with gallery, Ricco Maresca of New York.

Dennis' masterful technique and subject matter come together to create images of sensuous mystery in an exhibition of small to large hyper-realistic oil paintings and drawings of intimate, seductive, and sometimes psychologically perverse interpretations of human behavior and its interactions with the natural world.

With a light-handed use of narrative and metaphor, his style of realism, in its lucid objectivity, results in a kind of strange beauty and irrational disquiet. Indulging in European art history, the contexts exhibited within his art collide with contemporary dilemmas of everyday life, suggesting that the natural world – as a metaphor for our own behavior – is filled with contradictions and complexities.

“The potency of my paintings I believe lies in their lucid objectivity and technical proficiency. With a light-handed use of narrative and metaphor, I'd like to think my sense of realism results in a kind of nervous beauty.”  -  Marc Dennis  2004

The Mismeasure of Nature opens in conjunction with 55th Street Station's Last Saturdays in the our courtyard on Saturday, November 27 from 7PM through 11PM and runs through January 15, 2005 .  Please contact gallery for additional information or visual material.  In conjunction with the event, 55th Street Station will be presenting in the courtyard classic movie selections while offering a wine tasting and refreshments , courtesy Cafe Cafe.

Bettcher Gallery is located in the center of the Fine Arts District of the Biscayne Corridor and within the heart of  Soyka's 55th Street Station's enclave of shops and restaurants at Biscayne Boulevard and 55 Street.   Gallery hours are Tuesday: 11:00-5:00 PM, Wednesday through Saturday 12:00-10:00 PM, or by appointment by calling (305)758-7556.

Bettcher Gallery is committed to facilitating, nurturing, and advocating the achievement and evolution of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists in all media.  The gallery embraces the artist who challenges conventional expectation in concept or design while maintaining emphasis and excellence in formality, technical expertise, craftsmanship, and originality.

Digital images available upon request.

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