UPCOMING EVENT
Within a Liminal Space
Monoprints by Denny Moers
September 1- November 1, 2020
Opening reception: Thursday, September 17, 5-7 pm
*Rain date: Friday, September 18, 5-7 pm
Providence, RI – Periphery Space @ Paper Nautilus is pleased to present a new series of Monoprints by the Providence-based artist Denny Moers.
Within a Liminal Space explores the tension between the known and the unknown. From the Latin root limen, meaning threshold, liminal is a transitional place separating the familiar from the unrecognizable. This area can be uncomfortable for many, but it is an area that artists know intimately. Whereas some photographers might anxiously move the paper in the chemical bath, anticipating the images they think will appear, Moers thrives in this space, embracing the process, accepting the uncertainty.
Looking at Moers’s photographs as liminality, another word comes to mind – simultaneity. The hazy, mirage-like images in contrast with a hard edge of color remind me of a past I can’t quite bring into focus and a future that is sharply taking shape. He shows us a road that shines slick with color in the foreground while the trees and barn in the background are seen in black and white as nature envelopes them. These images are intriguing and mysterious, full of meaning, waiting to be understood.
While we are having a socially distant opening with a limited number of people inside at a time -we understand that this will be out of the question for many of you – so feel free to visit the exhibit during regular hours Wednesday – Sunday 12-5 pm. Please be safe.
Image: Consumed Structure with Road III, original monoprint 2020)
MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Zimmer, William. “ Going Digital With Prints Both Splashy and Subdued”, New York Times, Sunday, April 29, 2001
Gizycki, Marcin. “Polska Denny’ego Moersa,” Fotografia, Poland Numer 3/2000
Art Now, Focus, “Collector’s Guide to Photography”, December, 1999
The New Yorker, Summer Fiction Issue, ill. p. 120, June 22 and 29, 1998
McQuaid, Cate. “Moers colors prairie with ominous tones,” Boston Globe, Nov.19, 1998
Blindspot No .11,”Silence, Withdrawal and Invention”, Portfolio May 1998
Bundy, Fish. “Landscape and Beyond”, Quix Quarterly, fall 1998
Rodriguez, Bill. “Bold Visions”, Providence Phoenix, May 1, 1998
Grandstreet, vol.15 no.4, “Paranoia”, (with the poetry of Forrest Gander) 1997
Pearl, Lesley. “America’s Landscapes Meet Artistic and Chemical Alteration,” The Detroit Jewish News, May 20, 1994
Klemic, Mary. “He Develops Dreamy Art,” The Eccentric, May 19, 1994
Miro, Marsha. “Photographer Breaks Nature’s Rules,” Detroit Free Press, May 27, 1994
Creeley, Robert. “A Foreword”, Figments of a Landscape, Brown University, 1992
Rodriguez, Bill. “Denny Moers’ Masterful Monoprints at the David Winton Bell Gallery,” (cover article) Providence Phoenix, December 3, 1992
Van Siclen, Bill. “Painting with Light,” Providence Journal, November 29, 1992
Wise, Kelly. “Photography Review,” Boston Globe, November 25, 1992
Wise, Kelly. “The Expressive Power of Photography,” Boston Globe, November 9, 1991
Schaub, Grace. “Denny Moers’ Transformations,” Photo Pro Magazine, Sept-Oct, 1991
Waldrop, Rosmarie. “Landscape Overthrown,” Avec, No. 3, 1990
Middendorf, Fran. “Self-Rendering,” Providence New Paper, May 18, 1989
Waldrop, Rosmarie. Essay for Exhibition, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York. November 30, 1989
Van Siclen, Bill. “Showing Off a Quartet of Talented Rhode Island Artists,” Providence Journal, May 21 1989
Pantalone, John. “Poetic Fagments,” Art New England, July-August, 1989
Dunnington, Ann. “Carving Their Niche,” Providence Business News, January 25, 1988
Smith, Chalon. “Camera Focuses on the Mysterious,” Los Angeles Times, February, 1987
Dorsey, John. “Mind’s Eye Architecture,” Baltimore Morning Sun, February, 25, 1987
Goldberg, Vicki. “Photographing the Good Stuff,” American Photographer, January, 1987
Pollack, Steve. “Varied Media Explore Architectural Forms,” Baltimore Evening Sun, March 5, 1987
Weisser, Tom. “Building Blocks,” City Paper, March 25, 1987
Johnson, Deborah. Essay for Exhibition, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York. October 2, 1986
Klein, Ellen Lee. “Denny Moers,” Arts, December, 1986
O’Reilly, Suzanne. “Denny Moers,” Village Voice, October 22, 1986
Abatt, Corinne. “Photographer Develops Unusual Color Technique,” Detroit News, September, 1984
Gray, Channing. “Mingled Arts of Painting, Photography,” Providence Sunday Journal, December 9, 1984
Hakanson, Joy. “Chemical Magic Transforms Photos,” Detroit News, September 18, 1984
LeFave, Kenneth. “Two Photo Exhibits: Off-beat and Masterful,” Arizona Daily Star, May 20 1984
Miller, Marlan. “Maximum Skill Exhibited in Minimalist Art,” Detroit News, September 23, 1984
Pantalone, John. “Photo Painting,” Newport: This Week, May 10, 1984
Thorton, Gene. “In the Arts: Critic’s Choices,” New York Times: The Guide May 15, 1983
Morch, Al. “Darkroom Magic Creates Unique Art,” San Francisco Examiner, October 9, 1983
Murry, Joan. “A Poetic Beauty,” Art Week, October 8, 1983
Bloom, John. Review of Exhibition, Grapestake Gallery, METRO, October, 1983
Muchnic, Suzanne. Review of Exhibition, Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1982
Nicholson, Chuck. “Three Innovators,” Art Week, June 4, 1982
Cortright, Barbara. Review of Exhibition, Scottsdale Daily Progress, May 8, 1981
Miro, Marsha. “A Golden Age for Non-Traditional Art,” Detroit Free Press, May 16, 1981
Moore, Joanne. “Siskind/Moers Exhibit,” (cover article), Providence New Paper, April, 1980
Pantalone, John. “The Photograph as Painting,” Providence East Side/West Side, April, 1980
Welcher, Marguerite. Review of Exhibtion: Kathleen Ewing Gallery, New Art Examiner, May, 1981
Yost, Barbara. “A Photographer Inspired by Poetry,” Phoenix Gazette, April 20, 1981
Peters, Marsha. “Abstractions of Interiors and Walls,” Providence Journal, March 30, 1980
Joselet, David. “Moers Photos Bend Reality with Grace,” Boston Ledger, February 16-22, 1979
CATALOGUES / PORTFOLIOS /PUBLICATIONS
Anderson, Christina, The Experimental Photography Workbook, 6th edition, 2013
Licata, Elizabeth: In the Ultra Silent Light, SUNY Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2003
In the Ultra-Silent Light
Exhibition Catalogue University of Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, 2003
Moers, Denny: Between Now and Then, Portfolio of Selected Book Cover Art and Broadsides, Providence, RI 2006
Between Now & Then
Portfolio of selected book covers by Denny Moers, 2006
Singer Digital Studio: Downed Barn, Iris Print for Robert Klein Gallery exhibit 1999
AS220: Building Box Portfolio; Editioned. Providence, RI 1997
Fundacion Cultural Televisa, A.C: Luz Y Tiempo, Mexico City, Mexico D.F., 1995
Lemagny, Jean-Claude: La Materire, L’Ombre, La Fiction, Photographie Comtemporaine, Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Paris, France, 1994.
Johnson, Diana: Figments of a Landscape, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1992
Figments of a Landscape
Exhibition Catalogue, Brown University, 1993
Fillin-Yeh, Susan: The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1990.
Johnson, Deborah J: The Manipulated Photograph: Works by John Bloom and Denny Moers, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1987
Versaci, Nancy: New England Now: Contemporary Art From Six States, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. 1987
Tolnick, Judith: Some Photographic Uses of Color, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1984
Rose, Stephen: Photography: A Personal Collection, Brevard Art Center and Museum, Melbourne, FL, 1983.
Moers, Denny : Photographic Monoprints, Huntington press, Detroit, MI, 1982.
Williams, Jonathan: A Poet Collects, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC, 1981
Time-Life Library of Photography: The Print (revised edition), 1981.
BOOK COVERS
2008 Rising, Falling, Hovering, C.D. Wright, Lost Roads Press
2007 The Night, Jaime Saenz, Princeton University
2005 Dissonance, Rosmarie Waldrop, University of Alabama
2003 Robert Creeley, If I Were Writing This, New Directions
2002 Denise Levertov, Selected Poems, New Directions
2002 Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, Univ. of Calif. Press
2002 POEMS: 1972-1982 Denise Levertov, New Directions
2002 Steal Away / selected and new poems, C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon Press
2002 Murry Perahi Plays Schumann, Sony Classical CD
2001 Myzorsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Sony Classical CD
2001 Run Through Rock; Poems of Bayslr Brigham, Lost Roads Press
2000 Human Nature, Toby Olson, New Directions
1999 Life & Death, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1998 Tremble, C.D. Wright, Ecco Press
1997 Resurrection Update, James Galvin, Copper Canyon
1995 Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Tennesee Willams, New Directions
1994 Deeds of Utmost Kindness, Forrest Gander, Wesleyan Univ.
1994 Requiem: a Hallucination, Antonio Tabucchi, New Directions
1994 ECHOES, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1994 The Final Martyrs, Shusaku Endo, New Directions
1988 The Stillness of the World Before Bach, Lars Gustafsson, New Directions
1988 Cultural Anthropology, Carol Ember, Prentice Hall
1987 POEMS 1968-1972, Denise Levertov, New Directions
1987 Cultural Anthropology, Carol Ember, Prentice Hall
1986 Anthropology, Carol Ember, Prentice Hall
1986 The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground, Allen Grossman, New Directions
1986 Memory Gardens, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1983 Mirrors, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1981 Windows, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1979 LATER, Robert Creeley, New Directions
1979 Living Space: Poems of the Dutch Fiftiers, New Directions