Getting Dressed In The Dark, An Artist’s Way Home
A Memoir, Coming Fall 2025 From Unsolicited Press
“I always love [her] work and sensitivity to materials, [her] attention to detail. No matter what materials [she is] working with, she seems to squeeze beauty and reason out of potential confusion... abstraction with heart and soul. The recent landscapes are GORGEOUS... just wonderful dissections of natural rhythms.”
— James Linehan, Professor of Art, University of Maine, Orono
“Much of D’Italia’s work is loose on the edges to reveal that the surface is sitting on as many as 10 or more layers — which results in a sense of supremely lush substance. And still, the artist plays up the intense process-oriented content of her work through references to the medium, personal skill and the notion of the modernist grid. Adding these qualities together delivers a keen sense of time — not the regular clock of muscle-memory knitting or embroidery, but something more self aware to the point of existential obsessiveness.”
— Dan Kany for The Portland Press Herald