Donna Dennis: Houses and Hotels

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.

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 or 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.