>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Michele Manahan  
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:55 PM
> To:	#  All Robert Mondavi
> Subject:	Art Exhibit At RMW
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> September 12, 2001
> Contact: Julie Prince
> 	
> Robert Mondavi Winery
> 									P.O.
> Box 106
> For Immediate Release
> Oakville, CA 94562
> 	
> (707) 968-2203
> 
> 
> Oakville, California... Artist, Denney Curtis Hemens will open an exhibit
> of paintings at Robert Mondavi Winery on October 6, 2001.
> 
> 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.  
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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 ?.  
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.		
> 
> Margrit Biever Mondavi
> Curator
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