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Donna Dennis: Houses and Hotels

Featuring Dennis and Andrew Woolbright

Friday, April 5, 2024 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Donna Dennis joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation.

Donna Dennis

A photo of Donna Dennis on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Andrea Bancone
In a career spanning over 50 years, painter, printmaker and sculptor Donna Dennis is best known for installations that include sculpture, sound and more recently video, inspired by American vernacular architecture both urban and rural. Solo exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, SculptureCenter, the Neuberger Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Tate Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum. She has also collaborated with poets Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Ted Berrigan and Daniel Wolff and performance artist/puppeteer Dan Hurlin. Next month, Bamberger Books will publish Dennis’s first book, Writing Toward Dawn: Selected Journals 1969-1982.

Andrew Woolbright

A photo of Andrew Woolbright on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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