Meredith Tromble writes of Gary Denmark’s work:

Denmark’s paintings often begin with shapes and colors inspired by an actual place.  He divides his time between a studio in San Francisco and other locations including Utah, Mexico and Europe.  Work may begin with a shape or color reminiscent of a remembered place.  With each new mark he drives the work closer to his sense of the place it could be.  As he describes the process, “I try to establish a climate.  Climate is intimately tied to temperature, which can also be color temperature.”

Some of the tools and processes that Denmark uses on his paintings – stencils, squeegees and sponges – became familiar to him as a printmaker.  Just as his extensive background in printmaking informed his approach to painting, the scale and improvisation of painting fed back into his prints.  From his experiences in both media emerged his distinctive approach to building imagery in layers.

Gary Denmark received his MFA degree in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  His has been an instructor at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco; a visiting instructor at the University of Paderborn, Germany; a master printer at Aurobora Press, San Francisco and Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, and printer at Trillium Graphics, South San Francisco. 

He has exhibited widely nationally and his work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Achenbach Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara; Elvejem Art Museum, Wisconsin; Fogg Museum, Boston; Grunewald Center for Graphic Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee; and the Mint Museum, North Carolina.