LISA BROWN CONSULTING: Steve Dennie

MOST of you know Steve Dennie as the owner of Dennie Art Services, a full service business specializing in art acquisitions and installation design created in 1987.

Some of you may know Steve Dennie as a Corporate Art Advisor, assisting with the curating and acquisitions of artwork for the Corporate collections of ARCO, Belo Corporation, Frito Lay, GTE, and Texas Instruments just to name a few.

Others may know Steve Dennie as the Curator of Photography at Delahunty Gallery, Dallas/NY, from 1981 to 1986. Dennie created and developed the Dehahunty’s Photography Department into a nationally recognized program equal to Castelli Graphics, NY, Jeff Frankel Gallery, CA, and Robert Freidus Gallery, NY.

Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art

But very few of you know Steve Dennie the artist in the public collections of:

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

University of North Texas, Art Department, Denton, TX

Atlantic Richfield Company, Dallas, TX

Coca Cola, Atlanta, GA

Frito Lay, Dallas, TX

Steve Dennie

Untitled (Blue), 1990

40 x 40 inches

Hand painted Silver print, unique

Collection of Frito Lay, Dallas

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Steve Dennie received a BFA from the University of North Texas in 1979, focusing on fine art and photography. After graduation, Dennie was quickly recognized for his artwork and placed in several Museum group exhibitions:

1981. The New Photography, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Steve Dennie /Nic Nicosia, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas

1982. Photography, Hallwalls and C.E.P.A., Buffalo, New York

1983. New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

The New Orleans Triennial, The New Orleans Museum, New Orleans, LA

Steve Dennie

Untitled #1, 1978-79

(2) 24 x 36 inches

Hand painted silver print, unique

New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

Steve Dennie (middle), and Nic Nicosia (right) at the New Perspectives in American Art reception, Guggenheim Museum in 1983.

Returning to his love of photography, Dennie has just completed a new body of work. These intimate, urban landscape images are mesmerizing:

Steve Dennie

Untitled (0119), 2014

Archival inkjet on 100% rag paper
Image size: 6 x 4 inches

Paper size: 12 x 12 inches