Glenn deWitt
Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography
November 2 - November 23, 2011
Reception:
Thursday November 3, 2011 6-8 PM
Press Release
American photographer Glenn deWitt seeks to explore the extraordinary beauty, drama, and intrigue that exist in the most ordinary of contexts. In his Fabric Series, he subtly balances the variables inherent in his found and collected fabrics, natural light, and minor enhancements achieved in Photoshop to create a desired image. Here, his masterful sense of composition and light takes what was once ordinary and transcends the mundane. What results are elegant photographs that capture both the weightiness and buoyancy of the textiles that are so much a part of everyday life.
Drawing on a thirty-year career as an educator and counselor, deWitt confers great depth of meaning onto his photographed subjects. As he explains, “It has been almost as if an extensive source of creative energy has been released and allowed to assume shape and form.” His resulting body of work portrays images of exquisite beauty that mirror all the wonder there is to be seen in the material world around us. deWitt received one of the first prizes in the Worldwide Photography Gala Polluz award, 2011.
Artist Statement
"Fabric" is an outgrowth of my continuing studio explorations. As with other work, an effort is made to show the extraordinary beauty, drama, and intrigue in the ordinary. Incorporating found and collected fabric, natural light, and minor Photoshop enhancements, this work attempts to express the magnificent interplay between these variables. As always, the challenge is achieving the right combination of factors to create the desired image: material that is ordinary but special; light at the right time of the day interacting with the fabric; and postproduction work that enhances but does not distort the original image or its intent. Hence the challenge, enjoyment, and overall satisfaction. Each image is printed in-house in a numbered edition of twenty-five using only archival materials.
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