Painter, printmaker, sculptor, and designer, Dennis Cady is based in Queens, the Hudson Valley and Arizona. A native of Oregon, Cady studied at Portland State University with Robert Colescott and Frederic Littman. Awarded a two-year Max Beckmann Fellowship at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, he moved to New York, where he has resided since 1969. He also studied at the Pratt Graphics Art Center and the State University of New York.
As a prolific artist, Cady has worked in all media. During the 1970s he designed sets, posters, costumes and props for the Murray Louis Dance Company, Nikolai Dance Company, and other companies. For the last two decades, he has continued to design, creating an artist’s studio-residence in the Hudson Valley and NE Arizona. Focused on painting and printmaking for the first half of his career, his love of materials and explorations of 3-dimensional form and space in architectural settings has also drawn him to direct wood-carving.
