Dennis Green
Five Trees
Intaglio
30 x 22 inches
Edition of 80
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
From the Artist
Printmaking is a process. It is an undertaking not for the faint of heart. It is a voyage of challenge, discovery, and invention. The conscious mind is forced to wait to see the image. The longer the "critical" part of the brain is disengaged, the more possible the creative "event."
The engagement of the printmaking process connects the artist in a real way to all of the past. The past which is our shoulder to stand on. After a while the perceptive development of the genuine artist goes through all previous stages, and begins then to see the "real" world in terms of the medium. All things begin to look like prints, and the prints themselves, if properly nurtured, begin to look like all things.
—Adapted and excerpted from In Formation Field: A Student's Guide to Intaglio Printmaking by Dennis Green, New York: Boulevard Books, 2015
In Dennis Green's prints one finds a strong understanding of technique combined with a sharp graphic sensibility.
Green's prints remind me of the magical moments I have stumbled upon as a pedestrian in New York City—a glance that reveals a surprise angle while looking up Broadway or a golden afternoon when the light falls just so. In those moments, a facade of a building is transformed into something beautiful and majestic. These are the times when I really love the city.
[In some prints] Dennis takes this a step forward and draws upon the interactions of nature and humans with the city. Green's prints remind us how the city was made for us, the people that inhabit it. Though structures tower over us, they are made for our convenience, our comfort, our enjoyment. We are in a relationship with this place.
—Excerpted from Melanie Franklin Cohn inIn Formation Field: A Student's Guide to Intaglio Printmaking by Dennis Green, New York: Boulevard Books, 2015
