Donna Dennis is an American sculptor, painter, printmaker and writer. She is one of a small group of groundbreaking women, including Alice Aycock, Jackie Ferrara, Alice Adams and Mary Miss, who pushed sculpture toward the domain of architecture in the early 1970s, a sensibility that has been called the Architectural Sculpture movement. The artist finds beauty in places shaped by ordinary people, which become repositories for memory and feelings. Her seemingly familiar yet often darkly mysterious sites evoke memories, encourage reflection and allude to the transient nature of life. Drawing from overlooked fragments of rural and urban vernacular American architecture, her hand-crafted sculptures – tourist cabins, hotels, subway stations, roller coasters – have represented stopping places on the journey through life. Her bold, life size installations of scaled down urban structures – often with sound – stand in for the human presence. Her subject is not pure architecture or sculpture but portals to a metaphorical journey through life.