About

     My name is Dennis Morgan.  I am an Artist but, I believe everybody is.  Art is a language we each speak yet comes without rules.  It evolves from our experience and our emotions formed from those experiences.  In my own attempts at Art I stumbled across a technique that has lead me to the computer Art that I am creating.  After a multitude of attempts to secure that illusive “composition”, always seems to be my primary focus, in my so-doing I kept seeing faces.  They were, to me, people trapped in some other world … some other realm.  Thus my Art became, not an enterprise, but a “mission” to save them … to bring them “back”.  Yes, that approach (I’ll laugh too) is bizarre, yet I pursue it with the enthusiasm of a rescuer.  When I’m finished with a Portrait I feel that I’ve done a service, not only pleased with the finished product but a sense of relief that I have saved them from their twisted confinement.  Odd, you say?  Oh I Hope So.

     I farmed with my father the majority of my life.  With his passing I returned to Art.  I have taken some Art classes before but it became apparent that Art (the doing) cannot be taught … only the “techniques” for creating Art.  While attending Danville Junior College (DACC today) my Art teacher, Mrs. Sinsaba, pulled me aside one day and ask me what my major was.  When I told her she immediately replied, “When you’re done with that, go back to Art”.  It was perhaps the BEST advise I ever received.  I find it rewarding and look forward to every session.

     My IMAGiGRAM images are a balanced cornucopia of souls retrieved from a chaotic photographic technique I pursue with considerable difficulty.  There are so many faces that the detail required the property Aluminum prints offer.  The colors are vibrant and give a seemingly 3D effect.  From within these IMAGiGRAMs I extracted certain individuals and made them Portraits giving them a singularly prominent importance.