After spending her early years in Upstate New York, Denise earned a BA in Liberal Arts in 1993 from Goddard College in Vermont, with an emphasis on photography and psychology. Later, she earned an MFA in Imaging Arts in 1997 at Rochester Institute of Technology. The MFA program emphasized Post-Modern art theory and the political in personal art.
About herself Denise says:
My work remained a personal expression of myself, usually in the form of video and installation.After all this education in art and its many mediums (photography, painting, installation, performance, video, digital, drawing), I have returned to one of my very first mediums: oil paints.





