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Artist Exhibitions:
October 2002 - Doshi Gallery
Susquehanna Art Museum
June 2003 - Morrison Gallery
Penn State University
September 2003 - Morrison
Gallery Penn State University
Passions Gallery -
Provincetown, MA...
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Artist Galleries:
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Many of the Northstar Gallery
images are available on line
through Bokland Custom
Visuals. The sales gallery may
be accessed at:
http://northstargallery.com/sal
esgallerynsg.htm or click on
the link to the left.
The artist is represented by
Passions Gallery Provincetown,
MA www.passionsgallery.com
The artist ...
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Artist Statement for Dennis W. Felty
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As an artist and photographer, I am awed by the exquisite beauty and wonder of creation and its profound implications regarding man's capacity for transcendence. Within our being, moment by moment, each of us holds the ability to be both hero and villain. Indeed, it is only when we understand and embrace this reality that we can hope to rise above the competing duality, choosing hero. Carl Jung defines man's "shadow" as an inherent part of his nature and as the source of much of our: passion, comedy, fear, creativity, heroism, striving and transcendence. Since the beginning man has expressed and explored issues of "Soul" in the form of Myths. "Myths offer clues to the spiritual potentialities of human life. Through contemplating and telling these Myths, we evoke their powers in our own lives." As a story teller, images are a powerful medium for the exploration and retelling of Myths and a continuing exploration of man's very nature.
Joseph Campbell states "One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The blackest moment is the moment when the message of transformation is going to come. Out of darkness comes the light."
This is a powerful force that sets the stage for the exercise of free will and a continuing encounter with the deepest issues of soul. This duality is essential to defining and understanding our nature as an inherent part of God's creation and offers insight into the human condition and man's potential for redemption.
As a fine art photographer I am interested in in making the work of the soul more visible and real in our everyday lives. It is in these moments, that our soul speaks to us in quiet, perhaps even a silent voice - wielding great power and influence, at both a conscious and unconscious level.
A primary role of art is to provide clarity and insight into these issues as inherent elements of man's role in God’s Creation. As awareness and consciousness increases, so does the clarity with which we are able to perceive the exquisite beauty and wholeness of God's Creation. Ultimately, art acts as both a mirror and a lens that gives presence and visibility to that which previously was unseen, unknown, not understood and perhaps residing in the underground of the conscious.
It is worthy to note that in this endeavor one learns that - the perception of all great beauty, always has an element of "strangeness" and in its expression is an opportunity to truly know the perfection of all Creation.
Photography is a universal language with its truths being accessible to all who view an image regardless of culture, nationality, language or status in life. The camera is a tool that crosses cultures, breaks boundaries and grants access and connections that are not available through any other means.
In my work as a photographer I seek expression and deeper knowledge of these issues and in that pursuit a profound experience of being intensely alive. It is here that ones life have resonance within our innermost being, knowing the intense rapture of life. By following our passion and our bliss and by being willing to enter the "underground", we can find paths that have been there all the while, waiting for each of us. The life we live becomes the life we should be living and one has the opportunity to know the fire of passion and the continuing renewal of the life within. On this wondrous path, the art of photography becomes an instrument of story telling, spirituality, faith, seeing, knowing, exploration and celebration.
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