Helen Dennis
Harlem
New York, NY 10027
email: helenjanedennis@gmail.com
web site: http://www.helendennis.com

Artist Statement

EmcARTS
127 West 122nd Street

Helen Dennis' artwork sits on the boundary of photography and drawing, challenging the conventional reading of a photographic image. Helen uses the photographic process to produce images, derived from drawings of architectural structures, which are not immediately recognized as photographic prints.

Helen's interest in space and describing architecture through a two-dimensional medium is prevalent within the artwork. Urban architecture provides an array of angles, geometric structures, and perspectives, from which the images are created to describe the space. The generic nature of buildings, and their geometry, relates to the repetitive generic and angular marks all adding to the intensity of the artwork.

Helen creates large mural size black and white photographic prints focusing on urban spaces and architecture. They are compiled by many intense fine white lines, which build up the image before the viewer.

©Helen Dennis

Take A Seat
Photographic Drawing
2008