G. Roger Denson

G. Roger Denson (born 1956) is an American journalist, cultural and art critic, theoretician, novelist, and curator. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, his writings have also appeared in such international publications as Art in America, Parkett, Artscribe, Flash Art, Cultural Politics, Bijutsu Techo, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Artbyte, Art Experience, Arts Magazine, Contemporanea, Tema Celeste, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Trans>Arts, Culture, Media, and Journal of Contemporary Art.

He has published criticism and commentary on such international artists as Terrence Malick,[1] Kathryn Bigelow,[2][3][4] Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sigmar Polke, Andres Serrano,[5] Yvonne Rainer,[6] Carrie Mae Weems,[7] Catherine Opie,[7] Sarah Charlesworth,[8] Cindy Sherman,[9] Jack Smith,[10] Philip Taaffe, Pat Steir, Shirin Neshat,[11] Marilyn Minter, Renée Green, John Miller, Lorna Simpson, Robert Longo, Ashley Bickerton, Hunter Reynolds, Chrysanne Stathacos, Kathe Burkhart, Tishan Hsu, Liz Larner, Gilbert and George, Barbara Ess, Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, General Idea,[12] Lydia Dona, Maura Sheehan, Jimmy De Sana, Dan Graham and Richard Artschwager, Wael Shawky,[13] Shazia Sikander,[14] Jim Shaw (artist),[14] Louise Bourgeois,[15] Robert Gober,[15] Vasudeo S. Gaitonde,[16] Gego, Nasreen Mohamedi,[17] Kurt Hentschläger,[18] Claudia Hart,[19] and Susan Silas.[20]

Denson has written on the criticism of Thomas McEvilley (with republished essays by McEvilley) in Capacity: History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism, currently issued by Routledge, (originally Gordon & Breach).[21] Denson's monographs and catalogues include Dennis Oppenheim, (Fundacao De Serralves, Portugal);[22] Hunter Reynolds: Memento Mori, Memoriter, (Trinitatiskirche, Cologne); Michael Young: Predella of Difference, (Blum Helman, New York). And in the book by Robert Morris (artist), Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris (October Books, MIT Press), Denson has contributed to the chapter, “Robert Morris Replies to Roger Denson (Or Is That a Mouse in My Paragon?)”.[23]

  1. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man". Huffington Post.
  2. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Zero Dark Thirty: Why the Film's Makers Should Be Defended and What Deeper bin Laden Controversy Has Been Stirred". Huffington Post.
  3. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Zero Dark Thirty Account of Torture Verified by Media Record of Legislators and CIA Officials". Huffington Post.
  4. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Women Looking at Men Loving: Eve Sussman, Kathryn Bigelow and the Women Writers of Mad Men". Huffington Post.
  5. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "How Andres Serrano's Piss Christ Reconciles Nature and Civilization". Huffington Post.
  6. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler". Huffington Post.
  7. ^ a b Denson, G. Roger. "Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage". Huffington Post.
  8. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Where Doubt Is Faith and the Sign Is Spirit: Sarah Charlesworth's Art of Personal Religion". Huffington Post.
  9. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock... as..." Huffington Post.
  10. ^ Denson, Gerard. "Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness". Huffington Post.
  11. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade". Huffington Post.
  12. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Day Without Art: Looking Back 25 Years". Huffington Post.
  13. ^ Denson, Gerard. "Egyptian Artist Wael Shawky Is Pulling the Strings of Crusade and Jihad at MoMA PS1". Huffington Post.
  14. ^ a b Denson, G. Roger. "Religion vs. Secularism In Art and How Shahzia Sikander and Jim Shaw Turn Social Alienation Into Spiritual Engagement". Huffington Post.
  15. ^ a b Denson, G. Roger. "Why Louise Bourgeois' and Robert Gober's Feminist and Queer Uncanny Survive the Treachery of Art History". Huffington Post.
  16. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "The Light In the Cave: Vasudeo S. Gaitonde and His Painted Perceptions Shine at The Guggenheim". Huffington Post.
  17. ^ Denson, G. Roger. "Reprising Postminimalism in 4 New York Shows: Gego, Nasreen Mohamedi, Ruth Hardinger and Kara Rooney". Huffington Post.
  18. ^ Denson, G. Roger (November 27, 2013). "And Some See God: Getting to the CORE in the 3D and Immersive Art of Kurt Hentschlaeger". Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  19. ^ Denson, G. Roger (October 19, 2011). "Projecting the Future of Painting in Claudia Hart's 3D Utopian eScapes". Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  20. ^ Denson, G. Roger (April 5, 2011). "Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas". Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  21. ^ Capacity: history, the world, and ... – Thomas McEvilley, G. Roger Denson – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 21 October 2011.
  22. ^ LIVRES / BOOKS / LIVROS : Exposition – Dennis OPPENHEIM – Porto, Fundação de Serralves, 1996. TOBEART.com. Retrieved on 21 October 2011.
  23. ^ Continuous Project Altered Daily – The MIT Press Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine. Mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved on 21 October 2011.