New York City - Mr. Pierre Levai, President of Marlborough Gallery, is pleased to announce that Marlborough Chelsea will open at the new Chelsea Arts Tower, 545 West 25^th Street, on Thursday, October 4, 2007 with exhibitions by sculptor Tom Otterness and painter Steven Charles. The exhibitions will continue through Saturday, November 3, 2007.

Comprising two spectacular galleries on the first and second floors and an outdoor sculpture terrace, Marlborough Chelsea measures approximately 10,000 square feet, with ceiling heights from 10 feet to 15 feet and interiors designed by acclaimed architect Richard Gluckman. Marlborough Chelsea originally opened on West 19th Street, New York, in 1997.

Founded in London in 1946, Marlborough Gallery is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary art dealers. Marlborough’s Midtown Manhattan gallery opened in 1963 and over the course of four decades held important exhibitions by David Smith, Kurt Schwitters, Ben Nicholson, Wassily Kandinksy, Adolph Gottlieb, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Franz Kline, Francis Bacon, Richard Avedon and Larry Rivers, to name a few.

“Marlborough Chelsea will provide an exciting new venue to view work by some of the most innovative and admired contemporary artists working today,” said Levai. “We’ve specifically designed our new space in Chelsea with soaring ceilings and abundant natural light, creating the best possible atmosphere to show monumental sculpture and work by emerging artists and photographers.”

An eagerly anticipated exhibition of new sculpture by Tom Otterness, one of the United States’ premier public artists, will inaugurate the first floor gallery. This show will be Otterness’ first major gallery exhibition in five years and follows a series of monumental outdoor shows that began in 2004 with the highly acclaimed Tom Otterness on Broadway, an exhibition of twenty-five bronze sculptures that spanned five miles of that famous thoroughfare in New York in 2004 and inspired similar exhibitions held within the cities of Indianapolis, IN; Beverly Hills, CA and Grand Rapids, MI.

“We expect Marlborough Chelsea to be an important new site for the exhibition of work by emerging artists such as Steven Charles, Will Ryman and Michael Anderson,” explained Levai. Steven Charles’ debut exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea will be held on the second floor of the new gallery. Charles is an English born/Texas-raised painter whose colorful abstract paintings utilize patterns, brilliant hues, and media such as enamel and modeling paste on canvas. Charles has built a fervid following based on a series of small exhibitions in Brooklyn. Due to the exacting artistic process that limits the production of Charles’ work, this will be his first major solo show in Manhattan.

In addition to the new Marlborough Chelsea, Marlborough is a global organization that comprises Marlborough Fine Art, London; Galería Marlborough, Madrid, with an annex in Barcelona, Spain; Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo; Galería A.M.S Marlborough, Santiago, Chile, as well as its long-established site in New York City at 40 West 57th Street. Visit : www.marlboroughgallery.com/