Alene Pierro

Alene Pierro is a Hudson Valley–based artist, photographer, and sculptor whose work explores attention, perception, and the relationship between people and their environments. Originally trained in fine art photography, she developed a sculptural practice centered on line, creating abstract wire forms that interact with light, air, space and the viewer. Working across sculpture, music, video, poetry, photography, gardens, and site-responsive installations, her work invites sustained observation and a renewed sensitivity to the world around us. Pierro holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has exhibited work regionally while maintaining an independent studio practice for over a decade.

Artist’s Statement:

My work began photographically with images focused on creating structure from visual information. I spent years refining my attention through the frame and the act of noticing. The act of looking became inseparable from the act of living.

My visual language evolved with play - the cut offs from my photographic prints became a line moving through space. Finally form, shadow, movement, and relationship began develop.

Wire became the ideal medium for satisfying a conversation with the act of seeing. It began with attention. One movement suggests another. Relationships reveal themselves. Forms emerge through observation and response.

The resulting forms are not fixed compositions. They exist in relationship with air, light, the environment and the viewer. Reducing to essential simplicity helps clear the overwhelming clutter and creates space for focus on the most fundamental relationships.

I return to the same pursuit: creating conditions that encourage sustained observation and a renewed sensitivity to the world around us. The work asks only for attention. Through that attention, it becomes possible to encounter both ourselves more fully.