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Agnes Denes BravinLee programs is proud to present “Agnes Denes Uprooted and Deified – The Golden Tree” an exhibition of drawings, photographs and sculpture by this visionary artist. The exhibition opens February 16th and will run through March 17th 2007. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, February 16th 6-8p.m. An artist of international renown, Agnes Denes has had over 360 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including Documenta VI in Kassel (1977), four Venice Biennales (1978, 1980, 2001, 2003) and the "Master of Drawing" Invitational, representing the U.S., at the Kunsthalle in Nürnberg (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, and in 2003 a retrospective of her public art projects that originated at Bucknell University and traveled for one year across the US. In 2008 she is having a retrospective at the Ludwig museum in Budapest, Hungary. The show will travel in Europe. One of the originators of Conceptual Art, Denes was one of the first artists to be engaged with the relationship of science to art, and as a pioneer of environmental art, Denes has addressed ecological, cultural and social issues in her work, often on a monumental scale. Among her numerous awards are four National Endowment Fellowships, The Watson Transdisciplinary Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University, The McDermott Achievement Award from M.I.T., The Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the DAAD from Berlin, and many others. She has lectured extensively at universities in the U.S. and abroad and participated in global conferences. Denes is a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. Acclaimed as an artist of enormous vision, Denes has written four books and holds a doctorate in fine arts. Selected public collections include: Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA and Whitney Museum in New York; National Gallery of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg,; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University and many others. For Further information/images: inquiry@bravinlee.com |
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