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.