Larry Corsiatto
Corsiatto’s works in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts include his black and white, fibre-based silverprint photograph “Penumbra” (1991), which demonstrates a fascination with contrast. It juxtaposes rough and smooth textures, luminous and dark values, and rigid glass spheres with elastic steel springs. The silver gelatin prints “Pussywillows” from Corsiatto’s Wire Weed Series #1 (1993) and “Triangles” from Wire Weed Series #2 (1993) are entirely different, containing roughly-hewn, white-on-black etchings like magnifications of idle scratchings on a desktop.
Corsiatto has mounted several exhibitions in Red Deer including shows for the Central Alberta Photographic Society (1987,1988), Set One (1998) and Something Completely Different at the Old Court House (1992), and Fertility Fair at the Brock Gallery (1993). His artwork appears in the TREX exhibition Pretty Much Black & White. He currently lives in Red Deer.