Abstract painter Donald Alberti was born in 1950 in Virginia. The child of a military family, Alberti moved throughout his childhood and spent formative years in France and Japan before returning to Virginia and attending college in his home state. Alberti later studied with Jewett Campbell, a student of Hans Hofman, who brought him towards the formal abstraction that would come to be emblematic of his work. Today, Alberti is most widely known for his geometric, abstract paintings with a focus on color interactions—these paintings fall in the lineage of such painters as Peter Halley and Blinky Palermo. “It is the field that connects us all,” he says, “Pure color will elicit an emotional response. Color has a direct link to the emotions through perception.”