FW: Art Exhibit At RMW

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< From: Michele Manahan
< Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:55 PM
< To: # All Robert Mondavi
< Subject: Art Exhibit At RMW
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< PLEASE POST FOR ALL EMPLOYEES WHO DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO E-MAIL.
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< September 12, 2001
< Contact: Julie Prince
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< Robert Mondavi Winery
< P.O.
< Box 106
< For Immediate Release
< Oakville, CA 94562
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< (707) 968-2203
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< Oakville, California... Artist, Denney Curtis Hemens will open an exhibit
< of paintings at Robert Mondavi Winery on October 6, 2001.
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< Mr. Hemens was born in Syracuse, New York. His life in the arts began at
< an early age. After running away from a military academy, he arrived in
< New York's Greenwich Village where he lived and worked with prominent
< members of the Beat Generation. He migrated to San Francisco in 1970,
< where he continued to live and work in North Beach and other 'Bohemian'
< enclaves.
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< Mr. Hemens studied briefly with the late Joan Brown, original member of
< the Bay Area Figurative school, and with Wally Hedrick, founder of the
< famous Six Gallery, where Alan Ginsberg first recited Howl. He worked with
< legendary 'underground' filmmaker, painter, musicologist, anthropologist,
< Harry Smith, in New York, learning the craft of hand painted film and
< collage. He also spent extended periods of time with mentors, Ginsberg,
< Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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< He has participated in and contributed to several art movements including
< the Bay Area Neo Dada movement, Correspondence Art, Xerox Art, Rubber
< Stamp Art and other conceptual and performance pieces. He has had numerous
< group exhibitions and one man shows. His paintings can be found in the
< collections of the late Joanne Dru (Mrs. Robert Wood), Angela Lansbury,
< the late Ernest Hemingway and wife Mary, Mr. and Mrs. Randolf Hearst,
< Henri Lenoir, Mrs. Robert Mondavi and other prominent collections in the
< United States and Europe.
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< Mr. Hemens is currently completing a non-fiction narrative about Jack
< Kerouac and America, entitled The Other Side of Denial-Memoirs of a Second
< Generation Desolation Angel ?, and a collection of remembrances of time
< spent with his friend, the poet Bob Kaufman, entitled Percodan Summer ?.
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< A profoundly creative individual, who has worked as a painter, performer,
< poet, writer and filmmaker, Mr. Hemens' reclusive lifestyle took him to
< Mendocino County in 1984, where he continues to live with and work.
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< We invite you to look at Denney Curtis Hemens exhibit in our Vineyards
< Room gallery from October 6 to December 20, 2001. It is suggested that
< the Robert Mondavi Winery be called at (707) 968-2213 or 2203 to determine
< the best time to view the show.
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< Margrit Biever Mondavi
< Curator
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