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Alyson Denny has made two series of abstract color photographs and is currently finishing a third. The first series was created in the studio using an original technique of reflecting, refracting and mixing light. Of this work the New Yorker said, "[Alyson Denny's] abstract Horizontal Line Series C-prints swim with pure color." The second series, The Jellyfish Pictures, are color photographs of jellyfish washed up on the shore in Amagansett, NY. The East Hampton Star called these photos "rich and strange. The jellyfish refract light in mercury-like blobs and crystalline shards, and read as pure abstraction", while the East Hampton Independent called them "unusual, exquisitely composed abstract images....stunning." Her third series, The Seaweed Pictures, is a continuation of the ideas developed during the Jellyfish Pictures, this time with the camera aimed at seaweed. Her work has been exhibited at the Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY and the Klotz/Sirmon Gallery, New York, NY. Ms. Denny studied physics, math and filmmaking at Harvard, graduating with honors in 1985. Her thesis, a fiction film entitled Saturday Afternoon, won the college's Hoopes Prize. After graduating she was Ross McElwee's assistant editor on his groundbreaking documentary, Sherman's March (1986). Ms. Denny has made films in a variety of genres: documentary, narrative, experimental and abstract. She co-produced, co-directed and photographed the documentary Total Baby (1993), which was called "wry" (Village Voice), "fun" (Newsday), and "irresistible" (Boston Phoenix). She photographed, co-edited and associate-directed the documentary Girltalk (1987), "one of the most talked about films in PBS annals" (Newsweek). Both films received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and have been shown in theaters and on television worldwide. They are in over fifty public and institutional collections including Columbia, Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art and UCLA. Ms. Denny has guest-lectured on filmmaking at Harvard, the New School, the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts and Yale. Ms. Denny also brings to her photography a background in theatrical lighting and projections. She worked on many productions throughout the 1980s, primarily at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA. Artists with whom she worked include JoAnne Akalaitis, Robert Brustein, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Jennifer Tipton, James Turrell and Robert Wilson. More recently, she created projection installations of her photographs as part of Orphic Events by Douglas Fitch and Mimi Oka at the Idee Gallery, Tokyo and the Asia Society, New York, NY. [Contributed by the Alan Klotz Gallery, October 2007] |
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