Biography
Painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Dennis Cady is based in New York City, the Hudson Valley and Arizona. A Native of Oregon, his career has spanned over 40 years. He began his studies at Portland State University where he studied with Robert Colescott and Frederic Littman then moved to NY in 1976 when he received The Brooklyn Museum Art School Max Beckmann Fellowship. He also studied at the State University of New York, Empire State College and the Pratt Graphics Art Center.
Cady has traveled and depicted landscapes throughout the world from the United States to Canada, Europe, and Latin America. His work includes paintings on canvas, watercolors, prints and sculpture. Extended painting journeys have yielded many series of works that combine close observation of form, atmosphere, and light with rich color, expressive brushwork, and a distinct sense of place. During the winter months he works indoors, creating woodcuts, linocuts, monoprints, and silkscreens that interpret and recreate his on-site paintings.
He has designed and built studio-residences in the Hudson Valley and the White Mountains of Arizona. Focused on painting and printmaking for the first half of his career, his love of materials and explorations of three-dimensional form and space have also drawn him to direct woodcarving. For the past twelve years he has created natural wood sculptures, the material for which he forages in forests. This is related to his philosophy that values the repurposing of materials in harmony with environmental concerns.
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