| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Born in Olds, Larry Corsiatto attended the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology to receive his Diploma with Honours in Photographic Technology (1991), during which time he earned a Louise McKinney post secondary scholarship for academic achievement in photography. Corsiatto later enrolled in workshops at Red Deer College in black and white photography and monotype printmaking (1993). Nine years later he founded the Public Darkroom under Red Deer’s Department of Cultural Services. Corsiatto taught at the Public Darkroom for nine years, helping it fulfill its mandate to provide novice and experienced photographers laboratory space, training, and technical support.
Corsiatto’s works in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts include his black and white, fibre-based silverprint photograph “Penumbra” (1991), which demonstrates a fascination with contrast. It juxtaposes rough and smooth textures, luminous and dark values, and rigid glass spheres with elastic steel springs. The silver gelatin prints “Pussywillows” from Corsiatto’s Wire Weed Series #1 (1993) and “Triangles” from Wire Weed Series #2 (1993) are entirely different, containing roughly-hewn, white-on-black etchings like magnifications of idle scratchings on a desktop.
Corsiatto has mounted several exhibitions in Red Deer including shows for the Central Alberta Photographic Society (1987,1988), Set One (1998) and Something Completely Different at the Old Court House (1992), and Fertility Fair at the Brock Gallery (1993). His artwork appears in the TREX exhibition Pretty Much Black & White. He currently lives in Red Deer.
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