Dennis DeHart; Fine Art Photography

Print Drawers, Blue Sky-Yeah!

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:27:00 +0000

I write today to inform you that your submission to Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers has been accepted; congratulations! Our jurors, Laura Moya and Clint Willour, have chosen your work from the many submissions we received from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon. On behalf of everyone at Blue Sky, we are excited to include your series along with some of the region's finest photographers in our Drawers program.
Sincerely,
Todd J. Tubutis
Executive Director

Artist Trust 25th Anniversary Benefit Art Auction

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:03:00 +0000

http://www.artisttrustauction.org/

ARTIST TRUST 2012

SILVER ANNIVERSARY

BENEFIT ART AUCTION

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Curator Tour Begins at 5:00pm, Events Begin at 6:00pm

Seattle Center, Fisher Pavilion

Home - Pacific Northwest Collection - Subject and Class Guides at University of Washington Libraries

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Home - Pacific Northwest Collection - Subject and Class Guides at University of Washington Libraries

Title	Excavating foundation, Grand Coulee Dam site, ca. 1934
Photographer	Unknown
Date	ca. 1934

Home - Pacific Northwest Collection - Subject and Class Guides at University of Washington Libraries

Origins for the title, Land of the Stratus

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000

The title for Land of the Stratus stems from a conversation I had with the then, eighty year old gentleman by the name of App Applegate. During our conversation, App prosaically described the landscape around as " land of the stratus." Stratus refers to class of clouds characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at lower altitudes usually below 8000 feet.

I first met App in 2000, on Orcas island, where he was then in the process of building a 100 foot steel Barkentine sailing ship on the side of a mountain (his third-the first was built in New York). App is idealistic, and embodies a rugged, back to the earth individualism. Born in Washington state close to the turn of the last century, he is not easy to label. He is not hippy (different generation); a socialist, not a libertarian (he is a subscriber to Grandma, the Cuban Newspaper) and well educated (a retired chemistry professor, Whitman College graduate, and in his 60's, a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana) to be categorized as a western, working class stereotype, such as a redneck or cowboy. App is basically a composite of a free thinking individual.

App, Orcas, 2005, Dennis DeHart

Since first meeting App around 2000, the US experienced terrible acts of terrorism, multiple wars, and a collapse of the world economy, fueled in part, by short sided human greed. On the brighter side (we) the United States elected its first African American president, the Human Genome was mapped, and the World Cup was hosted in South Africa.

Soon after meeting App, I married my wife Jesica, who first introduced me to him. Jesica also introduced her mother, Rivkah, to App in the mid 90's, and they have been partners since. Jesica and I had two sons, moved across the country for various educational and teaching positions including in New Mexico, Arizona, Indiana, New York, and Orcas island. From 1997-99, we were fortunate to live full time on the island where spent two years building a house, making art, playing, organizing a school, and being a family.

Land of the Stratus conceptually began that day first day I met App. The photographs for the project have taken on many forms, ideas, processes, tools, conversations, experiments, failures, and learning. Orcas Island has served as my muse and home, both real and imagined. I want to thank App, who is now in his 90's, for his inspiration. I also want thank all those who have supported me with this project including, most importantly, my family.

-Dennis DeHart, 2012

Land of the Stratus; Finishing Up A 6+Year Project in Book Form

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:26:00 +0000

Land of the Stratus, 80 Page Book/Portfolio, 44 Images, © Dennis DeHart

Land of the Stratus is both a real and imagined place. The series conceptualizes place through representationally stylized and constructed photographs. The images were created in the San Juan Islands, USA, between 2005-2010. The photographs bear witness to instances of distress, which are punctuated by moments of the sublime. Diane Edkins, a curator at the Aperture gallery in New York City, describes the panormanic images as "A classical approach to the western landscape and space, which is both dissident and disturbing while functioning aesthetically and provocatively."

48°13' 3.24" N 122°45'44.31" W ; Project Re-edits

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:32:00 +0000

48° 13' 3.24" N 122° 45' 44.31" W , From the Project, Land of the Stratus: Photographs from the Salish Sea, Archival Pigment Print, 12"x38"© Dennis DeHart, 2010/2012

Photo of Torii that stood in seward park for 50 years

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:29:00 +0000

Photo: Ray Atkenson

Current Reads: Imagining Childhood, A Clearing in the Distance, and The Great Northwest

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:01:00 +0000

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300101317

"The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. "

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rybczynski-clearing.html

http://www.witoldrybczynski.com/

http://www.theolmstedlegacy.com/interviews/#2

http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/great-northwest

"Knowing what we think about our place and our region offers opportunities to understand ourselves our communities, and our relationships to the larger world.

Ravenna and Seward Park

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:31:00 +0000

Homeless Camp, Ravenna Park, © Dennis DeHart, 12.11

Paul Talbert, President, Friends of Seward Park, Seattle, WA. © Dennis DeHart, 12.11 http://www.sewardpark.org/friends.html

Iconic Rock, Ravenna Park, © Dennis DeHart, 12.11

Historical Images of Cowen and Ravenna Park, Seattle; Contemporary Trail Map

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:17:00 +0000

Ravenna Park prior to the City of Seattle purchasing the land from one Mr. Beck in 1910

Liberty Park

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:37:00 +0000

West Liberty Park Ruins, Spokane, WA. © Dennis DeHart, Dec. 2011

Liberty Park Basalt Ruins, Spokane, WA. © Dennis DeHart, Dec. 2011

Historical Photographs of Manito Park

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:16:00 +0000

Photo: Charles A. Libby & Son, State Library Photograph Collection, 1851-1990, Sunken Gardens, Manito Park, Spokane, Wash. - on verso

Photographer: Walt Dyke. AR-07809001-ph004044

Wyatt's Pumpkin

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:21:00 +0000

Wyatt's Pumpkin, 6x7 Film/Pigment Print, from the Series, At Play, © Dennis DeHart, 2011

Historical Images/Maps of the Columbia River

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:29:00 +0000

Conservation Department, Planning and Development Division, Lantern Slide Shows, 1908-1939
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov

Columbia Basin; Columbia River Watershed

Columbia River bend, taken from cave

Unknown stream, central or eastern Washington / Photo: Asahel Curtis.

Mouth of the Columbia, 1851

Thank you Steve Davis http://stevedavisphotography.com/ for posting an image from http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov on Facebook.

Pioneer Park, Walla Walla

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:20:00 +0000

Pioneer Park, Walla Walla, Washington, November 2011, © Dennis DeHart, 2011

Local Resident, Pioneer Park, Walla Walla, Washington, November 2011, © Dennis DeHart, 2011

Ecological Perspective; Cannon Hill

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:34:00 +0000

Arch; Manito

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:23:00 +0000

UI Campus Study

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:48:00 +0000

Topiary, Landscape, and Design Studies

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:28:00 +0000

Test, Play; Challenge Course

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Conscientious | What happened to the mid-career artist?

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:12:00 +0000

Conscientious | What happened to the mid-career artist?

SPENW Regional Conference: Visual Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:33:00 +0000

Visual Evolution

November 4 – 6, 2011
Spokane Falls Community College
Spokane, WA

I will be participating as a panelist for :

“Media Convergence: What Are We Teaching in Today’s Social Media World?”

http://www.spenw.org/conferences/2011-spenw-regional-conference

Shack

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:02:00 +0000

Current Photo Reads

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:14:00 +0000

Mexico City, 1997

noreply@blogger.com (Dennis DeHart) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:55:00 +0000