The Artist
Albert Dépas, is a Haitian-American, visual artist, poet and educator with experiences in divers disciplines of visual media. He has been trained in the traditional methods of the fine arts, (drawing, painting, sculpture, photography) as well as graphic design, architecture and digital media for graphic and web design. He holds a bachelor in Visual Studies, a master in Special Education and  a master in International Education.

Mr. Dépas’ artworks have been exhibited in The United states, Haiti and Canada and Europe. His artworks and poetry have been published in several publications; he is the author of Metamorphosis of Joy, a collection of poetry, published in 1996 by Mega Press. He is also the creator of fessings, a process for self-coaching that offers the opportunity to maximize your potential.

The Artworks

As to the notion of style, although speaking of poetry, Barry Wallenstein, in the foreword of Metamorphosis of Joy, captures the essence of Mr. Dépas’ approach into making art, by stating “Albert Dépas, the speaker, editor, painter, and encourager of the arts, here metamorphoses his voice from talker to singer as his diction transform from commonplace expression to the highly charge forms of poetic speech.” Working primarily in the abstract style, Dépas’ aim is to explore our multi-faceted mundane realities through creativity, and fashioned his experiences into a realized composition, through any chosen medium. Ultimately, his goal is to achieve a work of art in which the idea depicted would invoke, in the viewer, an alternative perception that may not have been observed before, be it a painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph, collage or a poem.

Dépas believes that an artwork should do at least one of the followings: entertain the emotions, educate the mind, and enlighten the soul. Therefore, through his artistic creation, he is committed to enriching a shared experience in our collective consciousness.