"In the
Web-in-its-strongest-element flle rests Jas Cyberspace, the personal
Home Page of James Felter, a North Shore visual artist. James' site is about
getting the word out abut his work and talking about stuff he likes. It's a
lot like any good personal Web site, in this case the subject of interest is
visual art.
Jas Cyberspace features a main gallery, a site newsletter and
something called The Gallery Mraur that will either enthrall you or have you
in tears of laughter. Personally, I experienced both. James' site is striking
and his art work intriguing. Both make his Home Page well worth a tour,
especially as an insight into the artist's creative vision. - Blair
Dewan, Arts Alive, North Vancouver
Jas' HomePage: "Great
opening photo. Jas's works are fascinatingly different, not only from other's
works, but from themselves. There are "floor tiles" with intricate geometric
designs within designs within ... made solely from black triangles and white
triangles. Patterns keep emerging and changing after you've stared awhile and
lost focus. But the "artistamp" is glorious color and ungeometric -- an island
in the sea. I would never connect the two works as being from the same mind.
Naturally, that stamp is from "country" that is also a bum link -- still under
construction, so more of that artwork is frustratingly unavailable. I'll be
going back to look for it. Recommended." - Philip Stripling, The
Civilized Explorer, WWW Site
The cleansing
perfection of geometry invoked in (his work) has found great appeal to an
audience already attuned to sophisticated abstraction based on oriental
paradigms. Rarefied by economy of means they enable the artist to avoid
references to most current contemporary idioms. Playful illusions of
positive-negative relationships result in elastic qualities which only
sustained viewing can provide. When colour is employed it is with the
calculated care of a thread-counting weaver." - Glen Allison, Four
Canadian Artists, Catalogue Introduction
"... Highly
satisfying, extremely formal, somewhat hypnotic ... irrestible echoes of the
indigenous art not only of South America but also (for instance) of South East
Asia and the Pacific Northwest." - Max Wyman, The Province,
Vancouver
"... A precisely
rendered world of maze images that challenges and compels . . .a chanch to
revise your definition of freedom by showing how freedom and structure are not
mutually exclusive. Indeed, they are mutually dependent." - Carol M. Cram,
Vie des Arts, Montreal
"Careful design work
that is saved from clinical coolness by the organic quality of its visual
rhythms and by the exotic references it makes ... a lesson in the dividends
that economy and simplicity, intelligently used, can play. - Susan Mertens,
Vancouver Sun, Vancouver
" ... Exceptional by
all means, quite new to Europe and difficult to classify ... a synthesis of
the raw materials and experiences of the primitive peoples (of the Amazon)
through the logical ordering of his own feelings ... (producing) a new
existence, a new dimension, a kind of language beyond emotional experience ...
with a strong and monumental human feeling." - Pierre Restany,
Paris
"...You'll be
mesmerized ... his strict discipline results in volatile, suggestive work." -
Laura Busheikin, Vancouver Echo, Vancouver