Laurie D'Alessandro
Laurie D’Alessandro, BFA, MFA, OSA - BIO
Laurie D’Alessandro is an experienced mix media artist and book maker. She holds two degrees in fine art and taught undergraduate drawing and painting at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards. She observes the layers of human activity capturing the ever-changing footprint of everyday life.
Laurie currently lives in the community of St. Joachim, Lakeshore, on the shores of Lake St. Clair where she maintains a studio.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
One Father’s P.O.V.
Accordion Fold Artist Book
Cork, bookboard, paper, iPhone photographs
Photo Credit - John W.M. D’Alessandro
6” x 6” x .75” - closed
6” x 40” x 5” - expanded (variable)
11.5” - in the round
2024
One Father’s P.O.V. is an unwitting collaboration documenting an adventure which began in 2022. My son, John, left his career of 22 years to care fulltime for his three small boys, and three dogs, while his wife was away pursuing a new career. It is a compilation of reflective, playful and poignant everyday moments caught through John’s own lens and share with me in our almost daily messages. But they barely scratch the surface of the sticky, messy, upside-down turmoil, and pure joy of a dad flying solo with his boys. In late August 2023, with their home sold and belongings packed; the family reunited in Gravenhurst to continue their adventure.
Laurie D’Alessandro, BFA, MFA, OSA - BIO
Laurie D’Alessandro is an experienced mix media artist and book maker. She holds two degrees in fine art and taught undergraduate drawing and painting at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards. She observes the layers of human activity capturing the ever-changing footprint of everyday life.
Laurie currently lives in the community of St. Joachim, Lakeshore, on the shores of Lake St. Clair where she maintains a studio.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
One Father’s P.O.V.
Accordion Fold Artist Book
Cork, bookboard, paper, iPhone photographs
Photo Credit - John W.M. D’Alessandro
6” x 6” x .75” - closed
6” x 40” x 5” - expanded (variable)
11.5” - in the round
2024
One Father’s P.O.V. is an unwitting collaboration documenting an adventure which began in 2022. My son, John, left his career of 22 years to care fulltime for his three small boys, and three dogs, while his wife was away pursuing a new career. It is a compilation of reflective, playful and poignant everyday moments caught through John’s own lens and share with me in our almost daily messages. But they barely scratch the surface of the sticky, messy, upside-down turmoil, and pure joy of a dad flying solo with his boys. In late August 2023, with their home sold and belongings packed; the family reunited in Gravenhurst to continue their adventure.
$1,000.00
Accordion Fold Book - Drawing.
3x3"
Unmarked 2021,
Accordion-fold Artist book, graphite drawings on cotton rag paper,
3 3/8 x 3 3/8” x 1” closed,
3 3/8” x 40” open (variable)
7” - in the round
2023
Unmarked 2021, is an accordion-fold artist book of graphite drawings on cotton rag paper commemorating the unmarked graves of children discovered at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The circumstances surrounding their deaths came as a deep shock to non-indigenous Canadians, although the story was well known to First Nations peoples. It was our communal awakening to one of the darkest times in Canadian history. Unmarked 2021 explores the scars, memory and tension hidden just beneath the surface of our land. It is a tiny book, but like repeated revelations of our First Nations people, each bend and fold reveal a new discovery. Appropriately the palette is muted and simple. The once proud maple key is frayed and torn, a reference to the tiny people buried without regard, hidden in the space between the visible and invisible.
$500.00
Accordion Fold Artist book.
6x6x5"
One Father’s P.O.V.
Accordion Fold Artist Book
Cork, bookboard, paper, iPhone photographs
Photo Credit - John W.M. D’Alessandro
6” x 6” x .75” - closed
6” x 40” x 5” - expanded (variable)
11.5” - in the round
2024