Donzella is Fired Up About Ceramics Right Now
October 19, 2022 by Benjamin Genocchio in incollect
“[Dena Zemsky’s] forms are utilitarian in core inspiration but made to look as if they have been chiseled from a stone. The texture is everything, along with her vivacious molten glazes. Her work is original, audacious and fun.”
Of Mud and Magic — The Allure of Contemporary Studio Ceramics
April 29, 2022 by Benjamin Genocchio in incollect
“[Zemsky’s] vessels demonstrate not only tremendous technical skill but strong attention to singular coloration as the result of a deft manipulation of her overlapping glazes. ‘Somehow she manages to avoid making them appear busy,’ says Donzella. ‘Instead there is a clean and mature feeling to her work.”’”
Why Unconventional Ceramics Are Alluring Collectors and Curators Alike
August 29, 2021 by Cara Greenberg in 1stDIBS
“[Damon] Liss, for his part, accessorizes almost all his projects with ceramic wares, recently installing pieces by DAVID HASKELL, DENA ZEMSKY and ROSEANNE SNIDERMAN — contemporary American ceramists all — in a Soho loft and striking black-and-white vessels by the young Dane LONE SKOV MADSEN in a Hamptons beach house.”
ART REVIEW: Exhibition at VSOP Projects Links Daydreams and Nightmares
September 6, 2017 by Charles A. Riley II Art Reviews, Hamptons & East End, NORTH FORK, Reviews
"That same view of the topography from the clouds is the premise of Map #28, a large and vibrant painting on three panels locked tightly together by Dena Zemsky, who lives and works in Greenport. Look for the red under the mustard yellow as a gauge to the way the artist builds oil and wax in accretions of texture. The source is a map of Indonesia, coded in the emerald greens of a Balinese bamboo forest and the fathomless blues seen in the Lombok Strait where the Wallace Line divides the globe. Clues to Zemsky’s feeling for materials and textures are abundant in the room, where her rough-and-tumble ceramics are also on view."
Daydreams and Nightmares" at VSOP Projects. Right: "Map #28" by Dena Zemsky, 1989. Oil on canvas in 3 parts, 72 x 108 inches. Courtesy of VSOP Projects.
Orient Linen Company reopens
by Monique Singh-Roy, 6/23/15
"The door of Orient Linen Company, situated inside a small, former 19th-century Village Lane barbershop, stood wide open on a recent sunny afternoon. It was a welcoming sight that invites you to walk right in.
This summer, owner Janet Markarian has joined forces with a partner, Jackie McKee, to present the store as a pop-up offering their goods as well as those of other local artisans...In addition to Markarian and McKee’s works, ceramic vessels made by Dena Zemsky of Greenport and hand-carved wooden fish by Will Knoedler, also of Greenport, are on display."
Clay vessels by Greenport artist Dena Zemsky. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)