...the figurative paintings by Dalessandro surprised me more favorably. They’re brightly-colored little pictures of jazz musicians, and if you see them one by one, they all look nearly identical, but when you see a bunch of them together, you realize that the artist is capable of many different compositions and colors.

From the website (An Appropriate Distance)
FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP
N0. 42: OCTOBER 15, 2002 by Piri Halasz

 
One group exhibition I saw had about 300 works in it; I grooved with only a tiny percentage of them. Three artists' cooperatives - Blue Mountain, Bowery and Prince Street - moved from SoHo to Chelsea, and held a gala auction fund-raiser to commemorate the event. Some of the work to be sold off was by gallery members, and some had been donated by prominent non-gallery members. The show as a whole was dominated by the kind of sound, honest realism that has a hard time finding a market at more commercial galleries because it isn't twisted enough (there were also a few abstractions, collages, sculptures, etc.). Some works I liked were by Donna Maria de Creeft, Lynne Rosenfeld, Marjorie Auerbach, Temma Bell, Michelle Albert, Cathy Diamond, Carol Diamond, Jos de Creeft, David Dalessandro, Lee Tribe, Jane Freilicher, Paul Resika, Grace Samberg, Lennart Anderson, and Fay Lansner.

From the website (An Appropriate Distance)
FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP
APRIL 15, 2001 by Piri Halasz

Two shows worth a mention are “Todd Williams: Recent Works” at Peg Alston and
David Dalessandro at St. Peter’s Church in the Citicorp Center (through January 4). Williams showed mostly wall constructions composed of small squares that jutted in and out. Dalessandro again exhibits pictures of jazz musicians, but in many media. .....

From the website (An Appropriate Distance)
FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP
DECEMBER 15, 2003 by Piri Halasz