Donna Dennis: Poet in Three Dimensions

Dennis is an architectural sculptor and installation artist who collaborates with New York School poets. She creates large-scale installation works inspired by American vernacular architecture, finding beauty in ordinary places that evoke memories and feelings. This book explores her career, artistic collaborations, and recent work, contextualizing her work within contemporary art and the womens movements.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2023
Publisher: Monacelli Press

Dennis is an architectural sculptor and installation artist who has collaborated with New York School poets for many years. She is best known for her large-scale installation works inspired by American vernacular architecture. Dennis finds beauty in the places shaped by ordinary people, which become repositories for memory and feelings. Her seemingly familiar yet often darkly mysterious sites evoke memories, encourage reflection, and allude to the transient nature of life.

This book contextualizes Dennis' work within contemporary art and the women's movements, tracing the arc of her career, exploring her artistic collaborations with poets, and presenting her most recent work, a series of gouaches and dioramas, for the first time.

A conversation between Dennis and painter Rackstraw Downes brings to life the artist's influences through her own words. With insightful text by feminist art scholar Helaine Posner, plus commentary from Dennis on the sources and process of creating the work, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of collectors and art historians interested in the architectural sculpture movement of the 1970s, and all those interested in feminism in art.

Weight: 1686g
Dimension: 250 x 300 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781580936026