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Email PageUprooted & Deified
February 16, 2007- March 17, 2007
Reception: February 16, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Agnes Denes
BravinLee programs
526 W 26th StBravinLee Programs is very pleased to present Agnes Denes Uprooted and Deified - The Golden Tree, an exhibition of drawings, photographs and objects. The exhibition opens February 16th and runs through March 17th 2007.
Agnes Denes is an American artist/scholar of international renown. One of the originators of Conceptual art, Denes has investigated the physical and social sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry and music and transformed her explorations into unique works of visual art. Denes was one of the first artists to be involved with the relationship of science to art, and was also a pioneer of ecological art. One of the first artists to initiate the environmental art movement, her work involves ecological, cultural and social issues, and are often monumental in scale.
Agnes Denes has had over 350 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including Documenta VI in Kassel (1977), three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980,2001) and "Master of Drawing" Invitational, representing the U.S., at the Kunsthalle in N�rnberg (1982). She has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, and in 42 other museums on four continents. In l992 she had a major retrospective at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, for which five art historians contributed catalogue essays.
An artist of enormous vision, Denes has written four books and holds a doctorate in fine arts. Among her numerous awards are the Watson Transdisciplinary Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University (l999); the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (l998); the Eugene McDermott Achievement Award from M.I.T. "In Recognition of Major Contribution to the Arts" (l990); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (l985); four National Endowment Fellowships and four NYSCA grants; and the DAAD Fellowship from Berlin. Denes is a Research Fellow at the Studio For Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. and the Courant Institute at N.Y.U.
Selected public collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA and Whitney Museum in New York; National Gallery of Art; National Museum of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.; Kunsthalle, N�rnberg,; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University and many others.
The source for this text is The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Artists, London, UK.
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