Current exhibition
Mixing it Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media
April 2 – May 9, 2009

Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College
68th St. and Lexington (SW corner)
New York, NY 10065

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 1-6pm

Mixing It Up presents recent work by eleven alumni of Hunter College’s Masters in Fine Art program since 2000. This group shares a common tendency to push beyond the traditional classification of art according to distinct mediums: drawing, painting, sculpture, video, performance, etc.



Helen Dennis
link to blog: From here to there making art along the way...

Helen Dennis’ artwork sits on the boundary of photography and drawing, challenging the conventional reading of a photographic image. Helen uses the photographic process to produce images, derived from drawings of architectural structures and urban environments, which are not immediately recognized as photographic prints.

Helen creates large mural size black and white photographic prints. They are compiled by many intense fine white lines, which build up the image before the viewer. The drawings are introduced to the photographic process and used in a similar way to a negative. Through layers of drawings and repeated exposure of the images, this repeated mark takes on different forms, thickness, tones, and energy. However, each image is created using the same pen on the same type of paper and fused within traditional photographic processes. Helen’s artwork leads the viewer into an ambiguous temporal realm by focusing on the extended time of a single moment. The differing temporality of each medium utilizes the differences between photography and drawing.