Alessandro Pessoli is an Italian-born American artist who creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures in equal volume. He is interested in the intangibility of history and its openness to subjective interpretation, especially in how contemporary viewpoints change and renew the past. As such, he draws on historical references in much of his work, along with meaningful symbols that represent topics from religion to sexuality.

h.d-p, 2005/06

Of all his works I prefer those that seem to be of humans partially formed; ones that lack detail in a decaying corpse kind of way. They are disturbing not only for their inhuman appearance but also because of their strange colors and patterns, like sickly and subdued psychedelic posters. The work is definitely more emotionally raw than telling of any idea (some call them narratives but I find them closer to being imaginative portraits of nobody in particular), because what's on canvas is foggy and rough to the point of being an eclectic riddle with no real context. I really love the weird feeling they give off, and I think the ability to elicit interest with shapes so unclear is an admirable skill.

Testa in Amore, 2008

Pessoli's paintings may be rough but they feel very complete, either because he establishes his focal points very well or because no one can say what the end result of his abstractions should look like. I'd like to try his method of sketching with paint to see if I also could be satisfied with something so lacking in rendering.

Assassini Che Mangiano, 2005/06