Marc Dennis

Teaches at Wagner College Lifelong Learning

Marc Dennis is an American artist known for his hyper-realistic paintings of staged images of contemporary culture that celebrate the subversive potential of beauty and the charged subjects of identity and pleasure. Interested in transformative possibilities Dennis merges various movements throughout the western art historical canon with fashion advertising and pop cultural tropes in order to create witty, provocative and symbolic paintings that play on our psychological, cultural and spiritual relationships we have with art and nature. Marc was a Professor of Art at Elmira College for over a decade where he created and taught a course known as “Project Dumbo” and is now able to offer it to students at The Art Students League under a new curriculum and name. He received his MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.