After graduating from high school Dennis DiAddezzio attended a local university for two years before becoming disenchanted with college life and dropping out of college. He was drafted into the US Military and after completing his military service decided to return to college and subsequently received a BA in Business Management. He entered the business world and began the climb up the corporate ladder but always felt that there was something missing, yet didn’t know what it was. In 1984, while on a camping trip in the west, he experienced a very unique occurance. When asked about this experience, he will only say that it was a very personal moment in his life.

Upon returning from this trip he began to draw small matrix like designs. In the beginning they would show up after a telephone conversation in his office. He knew that he had created the image but had no conscious attachment to the process. It wasn’t long before these matrixes would be seen all over his desk pad and yellow note pads. He then began to create them on a more formal basis. At first, the early works were done with pencils and ordinary ballpoint pens. With no formal art training he began to experiment with papers and professional inks.

The process was constantly evolving through experimentation and after many years they are now created using a combination of all the mediums he has used over time with gouache and acrylic paints being the main mediums. In the early stages of this experimentation he saw these designs on canvas but did not know how to reach this vision as the images were constructed out of geometrical shapes with cutting angles and exacting lines.

In 1986 he left the corporate world to devote all of his time to the art. In 2000, the artist moved to Europe where he created, exhibited and sold these images but while in Europe he purchased the most important medium he would need to reach that long ago vision, a computer. The artist is dyslexic so a computer was more of a challenge than he knew but over three years he taught himself how to use it and then how to marry his original creations to the computer. Like all of his work it was trial and error but after three years he began to see that long ago vision come to life.

The first pieces were crude and yet they still fascinated viewers. Today, through many hours of experimentation, he has found the perfect combination of original hand created work that has been digitized and imported into a computer where it undergoes additional enhancement. When he showed these images to friends and collectors the same question arose, what are you going to do with these? As fate would have it a process called giclee printing was finding approval in the art world as a viable way to create prints of original artwork on canvas.

DiAddezzio started to look into this process and how it could impact his new images. He had a few of these new creations printed on canvas using the giclee process and then began to see how enhancements would benefit the final image. He was never really satisfied with giclee printing for use with his original work as it was ink and very unstable. He continued to experiment but there was an intuitive sense that it still wasn’t there. In early 2004, a company that had found a way to replace the ink in the giclee process with paint contacted him. The company was Qoro, LLC and Qoro had developed a nano-pigmented paint with pigments suspended in a water-based formula. This process gave the images stability and they are not subject to heat and moisture. Light fastness testing was stopped at 200 years. Mr. DiAddezzio and the technicians at Qoro began to work together and it was a perfect match. The images that he had created many years before were now being used in collage formats and then given to Qoro to be put on special canvas substrates. These canvases were then given back to the artist who would then further enhance the work using acrylic paints. The end result is what people today are collecting. Qoro, who is responsible for creating replicas for the Barnes Foundation and other nationally known artists.

Mr. DiAddezzio has over 300 original paintings and illustrations as well as over 350 of the collage images in his body of work. Since taking a collage from image to canvas and then enhancing it by hand again, takes some time, the artist is constantly working to bring his vision of so many years ago, to life. Recently, while his work was on display in Key West, Florida, the organizers of “Fantasy Fest” saw it and Mr. DiAddezzio was asked to create the poster for the 2004 Fantasy Fest Celebration. Mr. DiAddezzio created a collage using 16 of his original paintings and illustrations to create a symbolic dreamscape entitled “Island Alchemy”. His work is being collected by astute buyers and collectors and is recognized as having a signature style that is very difficult to copy. His work has recently taken First Place in the “No Limits” International Art Competition in Rome, Italy.

His work is in demand for Magazine Covers and was recently asked to do the cover art for the Natural Awakenings Magazine, Charlotte edition. Mr. DiAddezzio has a self-published line of greeting cards and is in the process of investigating many new uses for his signature art. His art is collected in Europe as well as the United States and hangs next to original Warhols and Peter Max. It has been featured in Museum exhibits and galleries. His work has been used in magazine articles and editorials.

His new style has become accepted by those looking for new and innovative work and when asked about the obvious emotional response that viewers have when looking at his art, he will only say that everyone hears and sees a different message.