New Haven Independent
“It Takes A Village To Make A City”, April 2019
by Brian Slattery
Review of The Village Project
“Those who visit the exhibit are invited to make their own houses from clay provided in a workroom next door to the gallery. Finished piece are fired in a kiln and then added to the installation. If the current scale of the village is any indication, many people have taken the artists up on their offer, creating a piece that — again like a real city — is a delight to explore.”
"The ambiguity in it makes it that much more absorbing."
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LandEscape Magazine
Special Issue, October 2015
“IT TAKES A VILLAGE”
Norwalk Community College
Department of Art, Architecture and Design
January 2015
“IT TAKES A VILLAGE”
The Perch
An Arts and Literary Journal Yale School of Medicine
Vol 1, Spring 2013
“IT TAKES A VILLAGE”
Midwest Book Review
Reviews of "Painting the Town", May 2009
"A charming and playful story, meant to instill amazement at experiencing the joy of color."
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Real Art Ways
Press Release: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Selected Artist, March 2008
The March issue also features our annual “Slide Slam”. The works of art in the “Slide Slam” are from our open call for emerging artists who live in New York and New England.
The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time
"Building on an American Image"
Norwalk Exhibit Examines Houses and Barns in Art
by Abby Luby
Haviland Gallery Group Show Review, January 2006
“In "My House is Bigger Than Yours lll" by Minnerly, elegant and simple tent shapes reminiscent of Russian fairy tale castles are suspended, tethered by decoration collaged spires from peaked roofs. Two large tents, one partially seen, float over an impastoed, luminescent gold "sea", and a string of golden-yellow fish flutter out of the water forming an arch over the waves. Minnerly uses the five-sided tent shape in several pieces. In three paintings titled, "Family Tree", small, thin, graceful tents dangle between large trees-- a playful reversal of the usual dominance the average house has over trees. In a dream-like wintry forest, tree roots are talons in the snow, perhaps referencing ones community roots. Minnerly's "Smoke Signals" uses complex imagery in a subtle geometric grid. Two red birds midflight are at either end of line held between their beaks. Smoke-like plumes emanate from the birds, swirling into the sky, where four small houses swing wide at the end of intersecting trajectories. The golden ground is a frenzied, vast moving underworld that captures a rush of fish, birds and organic matter. Minnerly's concept of the house is the most poetically palatable allowing us to tap into her fanciful dream.”
The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time
"Blue" Group Show, June 2005
City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
"(The show) continues with whimsical paintings of Minnerly, who combines a richly textured secca fresco techinique with collage to create spare compositions with a notable surface tension. She makes wry observations on formalism with flying fish, suspended buildings and other objects created out of decorative elements. Ultimately, she creates a playful space that spans past, present, and future by integrating the natural elements in an original and compelling manner. This freedom to dive into the ambiguity of the unconscious may be what "Blue" is ultimately about."
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Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Group Show in NYC Looks "Home for the Holidays", December 2004
Kerrigan Campbell Gallery, New York City
“Kerrigan Campbell art + projects is presenting "Home for the Holidays",a group show featuring eight artists, through January 30. "Home for the Holidays" is a show celebrating the home, the holidays, and a sense of personal space. The show includes work in a variety of media, including photography, watercolor,oil painting, collage and fresco... Denise Minnerly paints fanciful, imaginary homes resembling tents with spindly spires. Stylized birds are collaged onto azure skies and cutout fish swim in goldleaf seas...”
The New York Times
Reviews of “Molly Meets Mona and Friends”, January 1999
“The book has been used in several programs at the gallery and is regularly stocked by the gallery store. It’s a very nice book and certainly one way for children to enter the world of the museum."
“Molly Meets Mona and Friends is an unusually effective collaboration that introduces painting and sculpture to young readers, and is a welcome addition to any school or community library children’s picture book collection”.
Darien News Review
Reviews of "The Color Tree", October 1993
"A delightful fantasy for children."