Marc Dennis is an American artist known for his hyper-realistic paintings that celebrate the subversive potential of art history, beauty and humor.
Throughout his career, Dennis has honed hard rock sensibilities filtered through immense technical talent with democratic imagery common to a collective modern consciousness. His paintings provide us with fresh observations on the relationship of a contemporary audience towards historical painting.
Interested in transformative possibilities Dennis merges various movements throughout the western art historical canon with modern tropes in order to create fresh paintings rich with irony, hype and narrative where elements of art history intersect with pop culture.
By co-opting celebrated paintings of centuries past Dennis' works find new meaning in the hallowed lineage of Old Master painting to explore contemporary questions of social interaction, artistic ownership, pictorial representation, and the consumption of images.
Marc's artistic inspiration is drawn from many sources including his own personal experiences, ranging from his days as a child camping in the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico to his somewhat troubled teen years, street fighting and multiple arrests, to his highly influential time on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wanblee, South Dakota, where he lived for a time in a teepee on the property of Richard Moves Camp, the Wicasa Wakan or Holy Man of the Oglala Lakota.
His adventures include having lived in Rome, Venice, Israel and Egypt; and spending three grueling weeks trekking the back trails of the Andes Mountains in Peru. And last but certainly not least Marc's creative drive is fueled from his heartfelt connection of being a father to his twelve-year old daughter and ten-year old son, who, in his word steadily shed light on new ways of seeing the world.
Born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1972, Dennis was one of five sons and grew up in and around Boston, Puerto Rico, New York and New Jersey. His father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba in an orthodox Jewish family (often referred to as a "Jewban"), and immigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts when he was 16. His mother was born and raised in the tough neighborhood of Roxbury, Massachusetts in a reformed liberal Jewish family.
Marc received his B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and his M.F.A. from The University of Texas at Austin. He was the first studio art major in UT Austin history to receive a Presidential Full Tuition Scholarship.
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| Queen Amy, 2012 |
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| The arousal of admiration, 2013 |
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| The end of the world, 2013 |
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| The measure of all things, 2013 |
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The necessity of judgment, 2013
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A hole on cellphone 7: tell him, 2014
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| A hole on cellphone 1: Unique, 2014 |
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Allegory of desire from the fourth freedom, 2014
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| Ironman, Captain America and a Russian Mobster Walk into a Bar, 2015 |
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Money Shot, 2015
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| Rock-Star, 2015 |
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| Jacobs ladder, 2016 |
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| Double Marilyn, 2017 |
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| Revolution, 2017 |
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| Crown, 2018 |
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| Fuck you love me, 2018 |
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| Once upon a time, 2018 |
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| Something wonderful, 2018 |
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Yolo, 2018
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| He loves me, he loves me not, 2019 |
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| Jewish American Princess, 2019 |
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| Allegory of admiration, 2021 |
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| Caravaggios cat, 2021 |
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| Dennis Richters cat, 2021 |
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| From a close distance, 2021 |
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| Holier than thou, 2021 |
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| Memento mori, 2021 |
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| The wood in the back of my house, 2021 |
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| Where the sun hits the water, 2021 |
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| Preparatory drawing for painting |
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