Originally from the Dominican Republic and currently based in Brooklyn, Gaby D’Alessandro is an illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The National Audubon Society, NPR and The American Museum of Natural History.
D’Alessandro has a particular strength in her depictions of scientific concepts and historical figures. She contrasts straightforward portraits and faces, rendered with nuanced value changes, against patterns of biological and geometric forms — ideal in her presentation of figures like Darwin and a marvelous evocation of the intellectual/emotional sensation of listening to Bach’s tones and colors (images above, fourth down).
I particularly admire her portrait of pioneering coder and computer visionary Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (“Ada Lovelace”), set against a diagram of Babbage’s Difference Engine and enwrapped in strings of input punch cards for the machine (images above, bottom).
In addition to the images on her website, you can find more on her Behance portfolio and Instagram, and the portfolio of her U.S. artist’s representatives, Morgan Gaynin, There are available prints of her work on InPrint and society6.
