About Luke DeLalio
Luke DeLalio has reinvented himself many times during his artistic career. He started out as a musician and then gradually moved into audio recording. As a recording producer/engineer, he spend the majority of his twenties and early thirties making rock and jazz albums for major and independent record labels, and touring as a live sound engineer in the United States and in Europe.
In 1995 Mr. DeLalio started stage directing regionally and off-Broadway (his undergraduate degree is in Theatre from Purdue University). He founded an accredited BFA Theatre program at a college on Long Island, has taught acting and directing and maintains a private theatre coaching practice in which he specializes in auditioning technique and improvisation. Upcoming productions include an original piece which is in workshop in NYC over the summer of 2009, a performance piece for an art conference at Goddard College in Fall 2009, as well as a production of Bertold Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle" in November 2009.
As an adjunct to his work in the theatre, Mr. DeLalio started photographing actors' headshots and live theatre, dance and music performances. He is much in demand for this specialized type of photography, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Playbill, Time Out NY, etc. Mr. DeLalio has also worked professionally as a photojournalist, as a graphic designer and a web developer.
His fine art practice grew out of his work in theatre and has since developed into his main mode of individual expression. His work is idiosyncratic and ranges through a variety of mediums. "People have called my paintings and drawings chaotic, I suppose because my work seems to go everywhere. But really, I have one theme, which is the relationships we have to objects, people and places, and I see the main purpose of art is reinventing those relationships such that one moves out of a typical life of the intimately mundane and into something newer and fresher. This has always been the thrust behind all of my artistic pursuits for as long as I remember, and it is the gravity that holds everything I do together."
Mr. DeLalio graduated the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College in Vermont in 2008. He lives with his wife, soprano Tammy Hensrud and their two children. Mr. DeLalio runs the award winning STAC gifted and talented arts program at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park, NY.
