Alice Denney (born 1922)
is an American curator and arts administrator. Denney has been considered to be an important figure of the
Washington, D.C.
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avant-garde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...
arts and had been the mentor to a number of Washington D.C.'s artists.
Career
Alice Denney was the first director of the
Jefferson Place Gallery
The Jefferson Place Gallery was an art gallery in Washington, D.C., founded in 1957 and closed in 1974. It had been located at 1216 Connecticut Street, NW in Washington, D.C.. The gallery was associated with the Washington Color School artists.
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. She was intimately involved in the founding of the
Washington Gallery of Modern Art
The Washington Gallery of Modern Art was a short-lived gallery promoting contemporary art near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, United States, during the 1960s. The gallery remained open for seven years, opening in October 1961 and closing in Septe ...
(in 1961),
and was the founder of the
Washington Project for the Arts (in 1975). Denny served as the assistant director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art.
She helped with the exhibition, ''The Popular Image'' (1963),
at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art which included
Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...
's "Concerto #5", with the
Judson Dance Theater. In 1978, she brought the exhibit ''Punk Art'', to the Washington Project of the Arts.
References
Further reading
* ''A Tribute to Alice Denney, 50 Years of Life and Work in the Avante-Garde'', by Maia Gatcheva, May 9, 2006
"A Brief History of WPA & WPA\C", ''Washington Project for the Arts'', Laura Coyle
External links
Oral history interview with Alice Denney, 1975 December 9-1976 January 27 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Oral history interview with Alice Denney, 1976 May 13 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Denney, Alice
Living people
American art curators
American women curators
People from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American women
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