NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Denny Moers is known for his highly imaginative, technically innovative monoprints created by controlling the action of light and chemistry on the chemical-sensitized photographic paper during the print developing process, giving his black and white photographs an extraordinary range of tonalities. Moers has said, ”I search for subjects with the intention to see what I haven’t felt before, make visible the invisible, to acquire what I cannot possess.” He has photographed subject matter as diverse as New England architecture, medieval wall frescoes and tomb reliefs, contemporary constructions sites, western landscapes and prairie dwellings, consumed structures and most recently, marshlands. Denny Moers received his MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop. During the 1980’s he worked as Aaron Siskind’s first assistant and printer. He received a RI Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts in and was recipient of the Rhode Island Council on the Arts Fellowship in Photography four times. Denny Moers has had numerous exhibitions worldwide and his photographic art is included in over 30 public collections throughout the world including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Huston Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City. His artwork has graced over 30 book covers. The film, Casting Deep Shade, a biographical portrait on his life and work based on an book with the poet C.D Wright and tandem exhibition at Brown University in 2018. Recent exhibitions include a large survey of his process entitled Poetic Variations: Anatomy of a Process at UMass, Dartmouth, 2023-2024. A film accompanied this exhibition entitled Betwixt & Between. His artwork is represented by the Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, and available through Robert Klein Gallery. A NOTE ON THIS SELECTED WORK FOR NETWORKS EXHIBITION This selection of paired monoprints seeks to unfold my process of artmaking so as to make transparent how my ideas transmogrify from one monoprint to another; a conversation of sorts often made years apart.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Denny Moers is known for his highly imaginative, technically innovative monoprints created by controlling the action of light on the chemicalsensitized photographic paper during the print developing process, giving his black and white photographs an extraordinary range of tonalities. He has photographed subject matter as diverse as New England architecture, medieval wall frescoes and tomb reliefs, contemporary constructions sites and western landscapes and dwellings. Denny Moers was born in Detroit, M.I. in 1953. He received his MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in 1977. During the early eighties, he worked as Aaron Siskind’s first assistant. He is currently teaching at Roger Williams University. His photographic monoprints are included in numerous public and private collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, M.A.; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts’, Boston and Huston; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City.
Source: NetWorks 2008 Catalogue
Silver chloride monoprint, selectively fogged and toned, 19 x 15 in.
Credits:
Video Production: Paul Rochford, Jr.
Special Thanks:
Steve Jobe for “coyote,” “newfield” & “riverrun”
The Providence Wholebellies for May Day Music
Zorgina for “O Rosa Bella”
Winnie Lambrecht for archival video Big Nazo for Hi8 deck Brown University Media Services
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D.
Additional Information:
Artist’s Website: dennymoers.com
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
