The Denyer House “I’ve been painting it, ornamenting it, moving things around for many years; maybe it’s a big dollhouse. It sits at the top of a rise. You approach my house up a curving and rising gravel driveway and when you reach the top of the rise, there is my house.” -BCD Image © …
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Venetian Bedroom Barbara Clark Denyer in the Venetian Bedroom with The Lottery (on table) and Infant of Prague (wall left). Image © 2018 Frederick Charles CLOSE
Burning Woman (Joan of Arc); ca. 2010 Plaster, wood, acrylic paint, wire, electric lighting, mixed media. 22″ w x 80″ h Questioning how a strong woman can go up in flames, Denyer explores themes of women and power in this mixed media work. “I had a third armor leg – this was in the 15th …
Saint Rockettes; ca. 1980 Wood, found objects, medical gauze, oil paint, electric lighting, mixed media. 36 x 54 x 7½ in. ca. “This large work is called the St. Rockettes with a huge arch of the Radio City Music Hall proscenium. I used to go to a huge junk – style type warehouse in New …
Parvati in Armor; ca. 2008 Repurposed 15th Century armor, wood. 23” w x 54” h x 17 “d Denyer’s commentary on unsettling times in Asia and around the world. A vision of protection, the Hindu Goddess Parvati, mother of the universe, is clad in armor; fortifying her gifts of love, power and renewal. “From a …
Underground Dollhouse; ca. 1979 Various pieces of carpet and rugs, wood, hand-made and hand-painted interior objects. 69” w x 32” h 30” d Denyer’s dollhouse built into the earth, recreates period rooms inspired by those in the Met and other treasured spaces. Through windows and portals the viewer glimpses a Minoan temple, a 17th century …
Red Tailed Hawk ca. 2015 Plaster, wire, acrylic paint, wood, mixed media, plinth: antique furniture. 20″h x 30″w “This alludes to Darwins’ theory of evolution of animals into humans. Maybe the process goes in the opposite direction. Here is the Italian Countess turning into the red shouldered hawk. Human forms with wings are known in …