Ringbinder

The publication of Jeffrey Dennis’ Ringbinder in 2017 comes after a solo exhibition at Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art in summer 2015. Both exhibition and book attempt to reflect on Dennis’ development since his initial profile in Britain and the US was formed during the early 1980s. This was a period that saw a significant international resurgence in painting in parallel with the ‘New Image Painting’ in North America and the ‘Jungen Wilden’ (Young Wild Ones) in Germany.

If during the 1980s and early 1990s, Dennis’ work was included in major international exhibitions, then his subsequent development has been typical of painting’s wider expansion since the 2000s through his unusual, divergent and contradictory subject matter. This monograph, the painter’s largest for thirty years, will prove to be significant for the wider international discourse currently surrounding contemporary painting.

Monograph, with written contributions from artists, curators, critics and writers, providing a comprehensive critical discourse around the paintings of Jeffrey Dennis.