Dennis H. Farber
Dennis H. Farber (born 1946) is an American painter and photographer. He received a BA from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) in 1968 and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, California) in 1975.[1] He has taught at both the University of New Mexico and the Maryland Institute College of Art[2]
Farber's photographs run the gamut from street photography to manipulated images that are virtually abstract. Most of his paintings are completely abstract, such as The Death of President Coolidge in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, Arizona), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography (New York City), the Jewish Museum (New York City), the Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, California), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe), the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, California), and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, they are among the public collections holding work by Dennis Farber.[3]
References
- Heartney, Eleanor, Centric 34, Catalog; Dennis Farber, l989
- New York Times, Wit on Wry, December 26, 1993
- The New Yorker, Photography Review, April 12, 1993
- Tokyo Museum of Art, American Perspectives, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, 2000, ISBN 447301763X
- Village Voice, Choices, Dennis Farber, May 28, 1991
- Village Voice, Choices, Dennis Farber, March 9, 1993