StyleWhipped: Event Recap: ArtHamptons Opening Night Gala

What tops a beautiful day in the Hamptons? Why, a wonderful event in the evening of course! I attended the ArtHamptons Opening Night Gala to preview $200 million worth of spectacular art featuring 64 nationally renowned galleries who sell a rich assemblage of museum-caliber art from the 20th and 21st centuries. The fair provides local, national and international collectors with a rare summer opportunity to purchase significant paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography and prints.

Ann Priftis from Clark Priftis Gallery was a delight as she hosted art from LLe-Dom, a new line of luxurious contemporary art glass created by Abby Modell. All the one-of-kind pieces fuse the boundaries between solid objects and fluid motion. Abby has taken her vision of style and color and translated it into works of art, creating flowing movement within glass. Many of the designs combine glass and stainless steel. With a dramatic use of color and imaginative shapes, Abby creates exuberant art that rivets the eye and excites the imagination. All LLe-Dom works are limited editions.

An absolute favorite piece of mine were 3 bronze penguins by artist Michael McLaughlin featured by the The Cooley Gallery. I have always had a love for penguins, and these pieces caught my eye on the way out of the tents.

Of course the who's-who of Hamptonites were out in full force. Guests included the always entertaining and fabulous Cathy Dransfield, Sean MFK Bruns, Countess Luann de Lesseps (floating around the gala in preparation for her "Class with the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair" book-signing on the last day of the event), Ann Ciardullo from Sothebys East Hampton, and the Tisch family who purchased 2 pieces of the LLe-Dom collection. John Palmer, Stephanie Garrison and Nicholas Landry also enjoyed the variety of art featured at the event with me.