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Alyson Denny's most recent series of photographs is The Six-Circle Variations. For this work she builds on the studio techniques she developed for her earlier Horizontal Line Series. Ms. Denny has also shot two photographic series in situ, The Seaweed Pictures and The Jellyfish Pictures. Her photographs have been shown regularly at the Alan Klotz Gallery, NYC, and the Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY. They have received critical acclaim from The New Yorker, The New York Times, and others (see Press, which also includes feature articles from The New York Times and The East Hampton Star with more about Ms. Denny and her work). Ms. Denny brings to her work a background in filmmaking as well as in theatrical lighting and projections. Her documentary films Total Baby (1993, Prod./Dir./Cinematographer), which was called "wry" (Village Voice), "fun" (Newsday), and "irresistible" (Boston Phoenix), and Girltalk (1987, Assoc. Dir./Cinematographer/Editor), which was "one of the most talked about films in PBS annals" (Newsweek), both received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, were widely shown in theatres and on television, and are in more than fifty public and institutional collections. 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. Her theatrical work was primarily done at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA. Artists with whom she worked include JoAnne Akalaitis, Robert Brustein, Doug Fitch, Peter Sellars, James Turrell and Robert Wilson. Ms. Denny studied physics, math and filmmaking at Harvard, graduating with honors in 1985. Her thesis, a fiction film entitled Saturday Afternoon, was awarded summa cum laude and the Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis work. |