“Most of D’Italia’s work is quilted fabric. It is labor intensive, vastly complex, technically rigorous and yet still — somehow — understated . . . These are paroxysms of life; moody moments that play different roles if you think of the piece as a present whole or if you see it as the slow, indexical process calendar of the artist’s labor. It’s less that D’Italia transforms the material than brings it alive.”
-Dan Kany, Art Review: Cutting Edge Looks Sharp for Portland Press Herald
“ Another highlight of the show is . . . "Metamorphosis of Plants" [it] incorporates a silk-screened network of positive and negative rhizomatous lines on pieced cotton. A few passages have been generously embroidered in natural colors like nuclei of attention. While these moss-like clusters act as interruptions, they are also actualizations of the underlying black-and-white structure.”
-Britta Konau, The Free Press, Gabriella D’Italia at Asymmetrick Arts
