ABOUT THE BIRD PRESS
Since 1997, The Bird Press is an artist-run publishing project that has focused on hand printed artists’ books. All projects utilize some inherent aspect of the book and often take the form of open-ended collaborations with writers. Each project is a response to the last, both in form and content, in order for the work to continually to evolve. Poetry, broadly defined, is a major inspiration for most of the work.
Editions between 15-40 utilize various print media including: flatbed offset lithography, stone lithography, etching, letterpress, wood blocks, and digital pigment printing.
The Bird Press books are represented by many library collections, including The New York Public Library, Stanford University, Smith College, Yale University, The Library of Congress, The Getty Research Foundation, and The National Gallery.
FULL PUBLICATION LIST FOR THE BIRD PRESS
2019 New Danish Poetry/Ny dansk poesi
Text by Anders Abildgaard, Caspar Eric, Signe Gjessing, Lea Løppenthin,Cecilie Lind,
Rasmus Nicolajsen
2017 Emergent Forms: Visual Improvisation, with choreographer, Susan Sgorbati
2016 A Cloud in Trousers, with text by Michael Dumanis
2014 The Wind, with text by Mark Wunderlich
2011 13 Tattoos
2009 Intranquilo/On Edge, Text by Jorge Accame, translated by Jonathan Pitcher
2008 The Trudge of Insects, Text by Brendan Isaac Jones
2006 The Man Who Fell Upwards
2003 Lover Loser, Text by Egil and Thorsten Dennerline
2001 Libro Cuadrado Not a bird press book,
A Collaboration made in Chile with Jorge Martinez, Francisco
Caroza, and Luis Martinez.
2000 LÆR MIG MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!/TEACH ME, STAR OF NIGHT!, Text by Peter Laugesen, translated by Susanne Jorn
1998 Twenty-six Words
1997 Lille Fedtøre/ Little Airhead, Text by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte
1997 Real Things People said and I Didn’t Know What to Say
1996 Driving, Text by Sean Dougherty
1996 Feeding Pigeons, Text by Egil Dennerline
ABOUT THORSTEN DENNERLINE
Thorsten Dennerline produces paintings, drawings and artists’ books. The main focus of
his work originates from an interest in poetry and the relationship between text and
image. This has led to collaborative projects with writers in book form, to paintings and
drawing projects that explore the poetic possibilities of the landscape. He has been a Professor of Art since 1999.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION LIST
2015-2022 Codex Book Fair (tables), San Francisco
2015-2019 E/AB Editions/Artists’ Books Fair (table), New York City
2016 Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Mark(ing) Time: Expanded Notions of Drawing, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar
University, Beaumont, Texas
Jorn Lab, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
2012 New Prints 2012/Winter, IPCNY, New York City, New York
Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, Massachusetts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 New Danish Poetry/Ny dansk poesi, Galleri Tom Christoffersen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Two Collaborations, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Alterscape, A.P. E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2013 Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Since 1997, The Bird Press is an artist-run publishing project that has focused on hand printed artists’ books. All projects utilize some inherent aspect of the book and often take the form of open-ended collaborations with writers. Each project is a response to the last, both in form and content, in order for the work to continually to evolve. Poetry, broadly defined, is a major inspiration for most of the work.
Editions between 15-40 utilize various print media including: flatbed offset lithography, stone lithography, etching, letterpress, wood blocks, and digital pigment printing.
The Bird Press books are represented by many library collections, including The New York Public Library, Stanford University, Smith College, Yale University, The Library of Congress, The Getty Research Foundation, and The National Gallery.
FULL PUBLICATION LIST FOR THE BIRD PRESS
2019 New Danish Poetry/Ny dansk poesi
Text by Anders Abildgaard, Caspar Eric, Signe Gjessing, Lea Løppenthin,Cecilie Lind,
Rasmus Nicolajsen
2017 Emergent Forms: Visual Improvisation, with choreographer, Susan Sgorbati
2016 A Cloud in Trousers, with text by Michael Dumanis
2014 The Wind, with text by Mark Wunderlich
2011 13 Tattoos
2009 Intranquilo/On Edge, Text by Jorge Accame, translated by Jonathan Pitcher
2008 The Trudge of Insects, Text by Brendan Isaac Jones
2006 The Man Who Fell Upwards
2003 Lover Loser, Text by Egil and Thorsten Dennerline
2001 Libro Cuadrado Not a bird press book,
A Collaboration made in Chile with Jorge Martinez, Francisco
Caroza, and Luis Martinez.
2000 LÆR MIG MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!/TEACH ME, STAR OF NIGHT!, Text by Peter Laugesen, translated by Susanne Jorn
1998 Twenty-six Words
1997 Lille Fedtøre/ Little Airhead, Text by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte
1997 Real Things People said and I Didn’t Know What to Say
1996 Driving, Text by Sean Dougherty
1996 Feeding Pigeons, Text by Egil Dennerline
ABOUT THORSTEN DENNERLINE
Thorsten Dennerline produces paintings, drawings and artists’ books. The main focus of
his work originates from an interest in poetry and the relationship between text and
image. This has led to collaborative projects with writers in book form, to paintings and
drawing projects that explore the poetic possibilities of the landscape. He has been a Professor of Art since 1999.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION LIST
2015-2022 Codex Book Fair (tables), San Francisco
2015-2019 E/AB Editions/Artists’ Books Fair (table), New York City
2016 Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Mark(ing) Time: Expanded Notions of Drawing, Dishman Art Museum, Lamar
University, Beaumont, Texas
Jorn Lab, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
2012 New Prints 2012/Winter, IPCNY, New York City, New York
Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, Massachusetts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 New Danish Poetry/Ny dansk poesi, Galleri Tom Christoffersen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Two Collaborations, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Alterscape, A.P. E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2013 Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont