ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Caldera Arts, Sisters, Oregon
www.CalderaArts.org

February 2013
A month long artist residency at Caldera Arts.
An incredible month spent in the spectacular setting of Blue Lake, OR.

OPEN STUDIOS: Exhibitions & Readings by the Artists-in-residence
February 23, 2013
Jason Baker poet
Helen Dennis drawing/photography
Laura Gibson singer-songwriter
Elsbeth Pancrazi poet
Roger Peet printmaker
Joanna Priestley animator

For the entire month of February we have each been given the
time & space to work on our art projects in a beautifully mountainous
area of Central Oregon. During the month I have been gifted with a
cabin by the creek, a 1000sq.ft. studio with a private darkroom. The
incredible setting, the isolation of no cell service, and the nearest town
15 miles away certainly makes for a productive month.

Caldera was founded by Dan Wieden of Wieden & Kennedy with the
mission to be a catalyst for the transformation of underserved youth through
inovative year-round art and environmantal programs. As a result I had the
privilidge to lead a workshop in alternative photography with a fantastic group
of highschool kids.

THANK-YOU Caldera


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DRAWING THE LINE
Praxis International Art Gallery
Chelsea, NY
May - September 2012

A site specific installation filling the entrance stairwell
of Praxis International Art Gallery located in NY



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ISLAND 22 Artists on Iceland
Presented by the EMU Art Department
October 31 - December 12, 2011

An International Group Exhibition of
Artists' Responses to Iceland

Opening events:
University Gallery
November 2nd, 4-7pm
EMU Student Centre
Cave Gallery
November 4th, 7-11pm
Russell Industrial Centre
Detroit, MI



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DUMBO Arts Festival 2011
LIGHT DRAWINGS Public Art Exhibition & Murals
Installation located at 37 Main St. DUMBO
Presented by the DUMBO Arts Festival 2011

Festival Dates:
September 23rd - 25th, 2011
Artwork is viewed from the street 24hrs.


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PROJECTED DRAWINGS
A Wall Drawing by Helen Dennis
The LAB Gallery
July 8-September 2, 2011
47th St. & Lexington Avenue.

The show Projected Drawings, will unite the notions and essence of photography into a single large
scale installation, filling the entire space of The LAB Gallery.

Dennis will be hand drawing a mirrored reflection of the intersection of 47th and Lexington Avenue,
creating a distilled inversion of the urban environment onto the gallery wall.

Helen Dennis’s process typically uses urban architectural photographs projected onto tracing paper to
guide the hand drawn sketches of her subjects. In then laying the ink on tracing paper drawings down
on top of photographic paper and exposing it to the light, she creates a negative positive line image of
her original photograph.

For Projected Drawings the end result will remain the same with a white on black linear distillation of
an urban landscape, but the process will be approached from the opposite angle, using light reflective
pens on a solid black surface. The lines will no longer be a bi-product as they are in Helen’s typical
process, but will become the primary source of the image.

Exhibiting concurrently in the Lobby of The Roger Smith Hotel is also a series of New York-based
works by Dennis.


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CAN'T HEAR THE REVOLUTION
Kunsthalle Galapagos
16 Main St. DUMBO
August 13th - August 21st, 2011

Opening: August 13th, 6-9pm
Featuring artwork by over 100 emerging and established artists.
Kunsthalle Galapagos


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TOWN & COUNTRY
Curated by Jason Patrick Voegele of Republic Worldwide,
Samson Contompasis of The Marketplace Gallery,
Keith Schweitzer of M.A.N.Y. and Tyler Wriston of The B.A.C.
Hosted by 320 Studios at 320 West 37th Street, 14th Floor
TOWN & COUNTRY website

June 28 - June 30, 2011
6 to Midnight with VIP After Party
Concept by Jason Patrick Voegele

Much of what we know and how we learn comes through the study of explicit or subtle comparisons
and contrasts. Meaningful opportunities for these comparative studies invite us into a more explicit
and intentional approach that can both broaden our understanding of contemporary American art and
help us draw connections and distinctions between the studio practices and conceptual intentions of
today's American Artist.

Produced and developed by four of New York State's premiere curatorial teams, Town & Country
presents just such an opportunity.

On June 28th through June 30th at 320 West 37th Street in New York City, Republic Worldwide, The
Marketplace Gallery, Keith Schweitzer (M.A.N.Y.), and The Brooklyn Art Collective invite you to join
the discussion and stoke the fires of debate as we present Town & Country: the very best of
contemporary American art. Artists include: Scott Michael Ackerman, Doug Auld, Paul
Brainard, White Cocoa, Hannah Cole, Annika Conner, Helen Dennis, Eric Diehl, Ira
Eduardovna, Tara de la Garza, Charles Koegel, Elizabeth Livingston, Frodo Mikkelsen,
OLEK, Sirikul Pattachote, Patrick Porter, Leon Reid IV, Julia Samuels, Tom Sanford,
Chris Stain, Veng, Emma Wasielke

Much appreciation to John Stavros from 320 Studios.

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(dis)located
Art For Change, NY
January 14 - April 2, 2011
Opening Reception Friday Jan. 14, 7-11pm
1699 Lexington Avenue
(between 106th & 107th Streets)
www.ArtForChange.org


Art for Change is pleased to present (dis)located, a group art exhibition featuring artworks
by Hector Canonge, Helen Dennis, Cecilia Givens, Jocelyn M. Goode, Hayat Gul, Marissa A.
Gutiérrez-Vicario, Harry Jean-Pierre, Miatta Kawinzi, Caitlin Masley, Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi,
Jasmine Murrell, Ibou Ndoye, Sarah Nelson Wright, Heather M. O’Brien, Sa’dia Rehman, and
Christina Stahr, with homeless LGBT youth art projects presented by The Create Collective.

The exhibition focuses on the concept of displacement as it functions locally to exclude various
groups of people. Being physically apart or away, being disrespected through criticism,
being dislocated emotionally by existing social structures, or being removed from zones of
familiar location all reflect situations of dislocation.


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FIXING THE SKY
Brick & Mortar
February 10 - 12, 2011

Opening Reception Thursday Feb. 10, 7-10pm
with music by HOOL
Brunch Saturday Feb 12, 11am-1pm


This exhibition brings together the work of Nicole Pietrantoni, Amy Sacksteder, and
Helen Dennis, as well as the collaborative work of Island Projects (Nicole Pietrantoni
and Amy Sacksteder). Fixing the Sky reflects the artists' experiences traveling in Iceland.
Iceland is often perceived as a remote location covered with lava fields, volcanoes, and glaciers.
While this sublime landscape attracts thousands of adventurous tourists to the island every year,
it also attracts a large group of international artists interested not only in the island's natural
beauty but also its unique geo-political and ecological situation. The work in Fixing the Sky uses
Iceland's beauty as a jumping-off point to explore humans' interaction with nature. In each
of the works, one finds a heightened awareness of our effect on the natural environment and the
environment's effect on us.

ABOUT THE BAND
HOOL will be performing on February 10th. HOOL has played in office parking garages, shipping
containers, hospital rooms, industrial lofts, haylofts, storm drains, abandoned covents, in the
quiet canyons of California, under the autumn leaves of western New York, and on sheep farms
in the green heart of Holland.
www.hoolishness.com


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ABSENCE
FRAMING AIDS 2010
at the Partnership Gallery,
Queens Museum of Art
December 1 - 19, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION DEC. 2ND 6-8PM
Link to exhibition website

The art exhibition, ABSENCE, features the works of twenty three artists who were
selected based on this year’s open call inspiration theme ‘indifference and invisibility’ to reflect
on the present lack of activism and public awareness about HIV / AIDS. The exhibition includes
the participation of artists who worked directly with curator, artist, Hector Canonge, in the
creation of new works that challenged their regular practice and production methods to meet the
challenges of the project. ABSENCE promises to leave a mark on audiences visiting the gallery
of the museum, and as the organizer explains, “visitors will be challenged not just to walk by the
works of art, but to seriously think and reflect on what they can, might, cannot or might not see,
hear or touch.”

Participating Artists:
%Desireena Almoradie, Alta Berri, Eve Biddle, Kenneth Burris, Melissa Calderon, Helen Dennis,
Felipe Galindo, Juan Hinojosa, Katarina Jerinic, Soo Im Lee, Kathleen Mallaney, Norma Marquez Orozco,
Jason Mitcham, Antonio Ortuño, J Carlos Pinto, Risa Puno, Ryan Roa, Patricio Robayo, Zefrey Throwell,
Alison Ward, Genevieve White, Plamen Yordanov, and Bowie Zunino.%

Directions to QMA: #7 Flushing Train. Exit at Willest Point / Citi Field, walk in the direction of the park.
Museum is located in front of the metal structure, the Unisphere.


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PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION - thru Feb. 2011
Rendering Leonard a public art installation
56 Leonard Street, New York City
On view February 2010 - 2011

Downtown Alliance of NY, RE:Construction Public Art Program

Rendering Leonard is installed along the 230 ft plywood wall that surrounds
56 Leonard Street, and will be up for close to a year.

Re: Construction is a public art program produced by The Downtown Alliance of New York.
The project is curated by Ayelet Daniele Aldouby and Elinor Milchan of ARTEA Projects.


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EXTENDED... until further notice
Exhibit: Helen Dennis at JodiArnoldNYC
October 20 - November 30, 2010 (extended)
Opening October 20TH 6-8PM
COLLECTORS' PREVIEW NOV. 10TH 6-8PM
56 University Place (@ 10th Street), NY
Art profile: An Urban Montage
Open Studio Interview
I hope to see you there...


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DUMBO Arts Festival
Watch This Space Public Art Exhibition & Murals
Unabridged - installation located on Main St (next to Galapagos)
Presented by No Longer Empty for the DUMBO Arts Festival

September 24 - October 23, 2010
Thursday-Sunday, 12-5pm
111 Front Street, Suite 200,
Brooklyn, NY

www.dumboartsfestival.com
www.nolongerempty.org


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RE:FORM SCHOOL a REDU project
rethinking reforming & rebuilding US education

RE:FORM SCHOOL is a high profile group exhibition, event series and public awareness
campaign taking place in New York City, that brings together the creative community in a call for
the reform of the American Public Education System. RE:FORM SCHOOL will be open to the public,
October 9 - 11, 2010, 10am-6pm. Located at 233 Mott Street, New York City, NY 10012

RE:FORM SCHOOL is currently transforming a disused school into an art exhibition and a weekend
of events from break dancing to bake sale, screen printing to algebra art class! All to bring an
awareness to the perils of the American Public Education System. I took a peek around the school
and it's going to be quite a transformation, well worth checking out, and it's certainly an
inspiring team that are orchestrating this event, it's a privilege to be a part of it.


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ICELANDIC ART RESIDENCY
The Association of Icelandic Visual Arts - SIM
Reykjavik August 2010
My Blog, Art & Iceland

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ONLINE EXHIBITION
Site/Line: Helen Dennis, Bradford Robotham, and Mary Temple
Organized by Joanna Montoya
www.add-art.org
(Add-Art is a Firefox ad blocker that replaces ads with art and presents a
new show every two weeks)

August 14 - 27, 2010

Site/Line presents the art of Helen Dennis, Bradford Robotham, and Mary Temple.
Each suite of work responds to specific sites or architectural elements that are
both familiar yet overlooked. Linked by their use of photography to recreate
place and time, the artists find inspiration in seemingly ordinary landscapes
and highlight the beauty of the sites’ painterly and sculptural forms.

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EXHIBITION
Weaving In & Out with No Longer Empty
Tapestry Building 245 East 124th Street (at 2nd Avenue)
June 15 - August 30, 2010
Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 7pm

Opening reception - Tuesday June 15, 6-9pm

No Longer Empty Weaving In & Out

No Longer Empty is pleased to present Weaving In & Out, a collaborative
exhibition in a new green development in East Harlem. The exhibit, opening on
June 15th, will take over the raw ground floor space of a residential property called
Tapestry located at 245 East 124th St. The exhibition is free and open to the public
Wed-Sat 12-7pm, running until late August.

In keeping with No Longer Empty’s curatorial practice of site specificity, this exhibition
explores the interactions between this particular space and its surrounding physical
and cultural contexts. "Weaving" appears in the title as a metaphor for the interconnected
artistic actions, and the intertwining of people, projects and ideas here.

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A-Lab Forum - Artists Talk / Panel
Queens Media Arts Development - A-Lab Froum
May 15th, 2010, 2 - 4pm
Hosted by Crossing Art Gallery
136-17 39th Avenue (at Main Street) Flushing, NY 11354

Presentations by 5 Artists curated and chaired by Juan Hinojosa
Participating Artists:
Paul Behnke
Megan Bisbee-Durlam
Helen Dennis
Oasa Du Verney
Kathleen Mallaney

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25th Anniversary Salon
Lehman College Art Gallery
Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468

May 11th - June 4th, 2010
Opening Reception: Tuesday May 11th, 4 - 8pm
A Fund-raising Exhibition - all works $500 or less

www.lehman.edu/gallery

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Helen Dennis + Albert Fung
curated by Nikki Schiro

April 1st - May 15th, 2010
Opening Reception: April 1st, 6-8pm

Nikki Schiro brings together atmospheric works by Helen Dennis and Albert Fung.
Dennis presents a variation of black & white photographic drawings, whilst Fung is
showing a selection of oil paintings.

OZANEAUX Ltd
515 West 20th Street, #5E
New York, New York 10011
viewing by appointment - please email helen@helendennis.com


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(IN)TANGIBLE

Taller Boricua Galleries present (IN)TANGIBLE
1680 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10029

November 20th, 2009 – January 9th, 2010
Opening: Friday, November 20th, 6-9pm
Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm

(IN)TANGIBLE is a group exhibition of 11 contemporary New York artists whose work
blurs the boundaries between states of permanence and permeability, collapsing the
distinctions within the visible and invisible forces that surround our lives.

Curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata.
Artists exhibiting include: Kristin Anderson, Yiftach Belsky, Helen Dennis, Andrew Doro,
Gina Fuentes Walker, Ann Oren, Fernando Salicrup, Erik Sanner, Barbara Sullivan,
Kazue Taguchi and Richard A. Wager.


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Get the Led Out

SHO Gallery and Team Lab present Get the Led Out at The Loading Dock
170 Tillary Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

www.shogallery.com

September 19th - 26th, 2009
First Opening Party: Saturday September 19th, 7-9pm
Second Opening Party: Saturday September 26th, 2-11pm (Bands at 6pm)

Get the Led Out brings together a group of artists who use ordinary materials to
create precise and meticulous objects. Employing ink, paper, video, aluminum foil,
and various other mediums, they produce work that is fastidious in execution and
detailed in result. Repetition, planning, patience, concentration, rules formed by the
use of simple tools, and a driving need to master their chosen craft attribute to the
astonishment of their work. Often their subject matter mirrors their process, exploring
systems, structures, and environments that exist only in their specific renderings.

Curated by Erik Hougen, Tony Ingrisano, and Julie McKim.
Artists exhibiting include: Justin Amrhein, Sarah Bostwick, Sonya Blesofsky,
Helen Dennis, Sarrita Hunn, Bill Lohre, Jessica Mein, and Pete Watts.


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artHARLEM - HOAST2009

The 5th Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour.

Harlem Artists, Galleries & Exhibition Spaces Open their Doors to the Public,
The 5th Annual Two-Day Harlem Open Artists Studio Tour/HOAST2009
Kicks Off October 10th & 11th, 2009

For more information and a map of HOAST2009

www.artharlem.org


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Mixing it Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media

April 2 – May 9, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 2, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

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

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 1-6pm

Curated by Tracy L. Adler, Mara Hoberman and Julia Moreno, Mixing It Up presents
recent work by eleven alumni of Hunter College’s Masters in Fine Art program.
Selected from the hundreds of graduates 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. But, rather than
disregard the physical specifics of the art object as a container for ideas or images,
these artists deliberately fuse diverse artistic practices.


Downloadable pdf - exhibition catalogue


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