Dennis Ziemienski: 50 Year Retrospective Podcast - Epi. 317, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

I had Dennis Ziemienski on today, and I've known Dennis for a
long time, represented him for about 20 years, and we're doing a
retrospective for him on December 6th in Tucson. He's going to
turn 77 in May, and he's been working on this for over a year.
There's a new on Dennis that just came out and we're going to
have over 60 paintings in the show.

It's a big deal for artists to have their lives celebrated.
Dennis definitely needs to be celebrated because he's a
remarkable artist. As an illustrator he did some things that were
gigantic. The Super Bowl, Academy Awards, Olympics, Kentucky
Derby, you name it, he did it. Then after being a successful
illustrator, he transitioned into fine art and succeeds in
spades.

He loves to create. Every time I talk to him, he's excited and
happy to be talking about the art that he's painting and what
he's doing. So for me, it's a thrill to have his retrospective at
our gallery this year (again, December 6, 2024).

To see all that work together is going to be so compelling, I
have no doubt. Not only will it be the fine art, but we're doing
something in our new Maynard Dixon and Native American Art
Museum, which will be a show of illustrations juxtaposed against
Maynard Dixon's commercial art.

So we just talk about it, right? We just talk about his life and
how he got into art in the first place. I really wanted to focus
on the paintings in his book and the retrospective, and I think
we got it. I think it's a great podcast, and it will be one of
those that's noted, when people are doing research is an
important one because you can see his life laid out just as
you'll see it in his retrospective coming up, Dennis
Ziemienski.

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