Sydney Albertini
“My needing to constantly customize my surroundings is an attempt to being fully visible. To build my world into a visual landscape and to explore the genesis behind the visual outputs in order to understand and further the conversation between society and my being in it as an individual and as a component of society.” - Sydney Albertini
Sydney Albertini is a French multidisciplinary artist based in Amagansett, Long Island. She creates pieces which are both two dimensional in the form of large painted drawings, embroideries quilts and weavings, and three-dimensional, with a focus on traditional fibre techniques such as knit and fabrics. Her work includes the ‘Botanicals’ and ‘Movements’ series.
Albertini uses colours to denote various characteristics or attributes of her subjects. She views colours as identity markers and uses their historical symbolism to imbue her various combinations with new meanings, resulting in abstract emotional portraits. From the inception of a work, despite the lack of formal preparation, the colour palette is predetermined, as is the number of panels, which are pre-cut and prepared in advance. The use of brown Kraft paper as a base for her paintings allows Albertini to use colours and create combinations which she feels would be lost on a white background.
📷 1-3. Sydney Albertini, Botanic Blue & White Palm (Triptych), 2022
4. The artist Sydney Albertini
