Eli Cedrone has spent her lifetime creating. A graduate of The School of Art & Design/Suffolk Univeristy, she studied art in Italy and at the School of the MFA, Boston. Her professional career began as an art director at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Bermuda, followed by work as an illustrator and fine artist in Laguna Beach, CA. Her paintings have been exhibited nationwide and she conducts workshops in the US and Bermuda, in the alla prima method.
Cedrone works in oils, and feels it's important to work from life. She paints en plein air or develops larger works in studio from the model, memory and a variety of reference materials. Contemporary Realism would best describe her style. Two powerful influences have been the Spanish impressionist, Joaquin Sorolla and the Bay Area painter, Richard Diebenkorn. Others include Nicolai Fechin, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and Antonio Lopez Garcia.
Her work bridges abstraction and realism. She is most drawn to the human form - the body as an expressive and interpretive vehicle. Transforming the figure
into suggestions of person, place and human pathos. The figures exist both in representational and tactile, painterly worlds. Constantly striving for a way to articulate this unique visual synthesis; from the monolithic to the corporeal. Nudity is portrayed as something real and not idealized. Often a narrative theme is explored, she strives to capture the emotional power of the moment.
For Cedrone, landscape painting is a journey in search of something that ultimately evokes a personal response - something beyond the obvious and descriptive. Her concerns are with the expressive qualities of light captured in paint as much as they're about new ways to consider the landscape in contemporary painting.
"Feeling too comfortable as and artist is dishonest because art is born out of life and life is a mytery - an ongoing transformation. The work must have modesty, it mut be freee from ostentation. Common can be beautiful, emotionally resonant and demanding without being manimpulative or artificially provocative ." Antonio Lopez Garcia
Represented By:
Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara CA
Willoughby Fine Art, Martha's Vineyard
Addison Gallery, Orleans, MA
Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA
Affiliations:
Oil Painters of America
Portrait Society of America
Guild Of Boston Artists
Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
North River Arts Society
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Awards
2010 - Honorable Mention
"Rouge et Noir" Portrait Society of America; Members Showcase Competition
2009 - Calendar Contest Winner
"Day at the Beach" Month of July, 2011 North River Arts Society
2009 - Third Place
"Repose" North River Arts Society, MA; Juried Figure Exhibition
2009 - Third Place
"Dalena" Portrait Society of America; Members Showcase Competition
2008 - Award of Excellence
"Mercato" North River Arts Society, MA; Member Exhibit
2007 - First Prize Oils
"Journey's End" Pembroke Arts Festival; Annual Juried Arts Festival
2007- Honorable Mention
"Swans At Rest" The Guild of Boston Artists;
New England Representational Painting Exhibit
2007 - Calendar Contest Winner
"Kate In The Garden" Month of April, 2009 North River Arts Society
2007 - Honorable Mention
"The Shellseekers" North River Arts Society, MA; Member Show
2006 - Honorable Mention
"Olivia After the Beach" North River Arts Society, MA; Member Show
2005 Honorable Mention
"Sun, Sand & Bucket" Hull Lifesaving Museum, MA; Juried Show
2004 Third Place
Fuller Museum of Art, MA; Juried Exhibition
2004 Third Place
"Field of Dreams" Captain Forbes Musuem, MA; Juried Show
2002 Second Place, Oils
"The Offering" Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, MA
1994 Award of Excellence
Costa Mesa Art League; All-Media Juried Exhibition, CA
Selected Exhibitions & Events
2009
OPA: Eastern Regional Exhibition, Corse Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Waterhouse Gallery: Great American Figurative Show, Santa Barbara, CA
Portrait Society of America, Members Juried Competion
Stony Creek Gallery: Group Exhibition, Madison, CT
Laguna Plein Air Painters, CA; Juried Small Works & Best of Plein Air
OPA - Juried Representational Show, Sage Creek Gallery, NM
Addison Gallery, Orleans, MA: Group Exhibitions
Boston International Fine Art Show, MA
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra : Opening Night Exhibition
North River Arts Society: Juried Figure Exhibition & Calendar Showcase
Copley Society of Boston; Juried Members Exhibition
North River Arts Society, Members Exhibition
2008
Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Great American Figurative Show
Wynne Falconer Gallery, Chatham, MA; Group Exhibition
Oceanside 17 Gallery, Hull, MA; “HEAT” Summer Invitational
Copley Society of Boston; 20th Annual Fresh Paint Event
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, MA; Solo Exhibition
Guild Of Artists, Boston MA; Juried Representational Exhibition
Laguna Plein Air Painters, CA; Juried Small Works Exhibition
Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA; Spring & Fall Invitational
Copley Society of Boston; Juried Members Exhibition
Laguna Plein Air Painters, CA; “Best of Plein Air” Juried Exhibition
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Annual Winter Juried Show
North River Arts Society, MA; Calendar Contest Winner
2007
North River Arts Society, MA; Juried Exhibition
Pembroke Art Festival, MA; Juried Exhibition
Guild Of Artists, Boston MA; Juried Representational Exhibition
Massachusetts Horticultural Society; Invitational Paint Out
Copley Society of Boston, MA; Juried Members Show
South Street Gallery, Hingham, MA; Group Exhibition & Invitational
Boston International Fine Art Show
Wynne Falconer Gallery, Chatham MA
2006
South Street Gallery, Hingham, MA; Solo Exhibition
Hull Lifesaving Museum, MA; Juried Show
Forbes Museum, Milton, MA; Juried Show
2004 - 2007
Ellison Center for the Arts, Duxbury, MA; Various Juried Exhibition
North River Art Society, Marshfield, MA, Juried Exhibition
1997 - 2006
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Annual Winter Juried Show
2004
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Juried Member Exhibition
1996
Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA; Juried Exhibition
MFA, Boston, MA; Alumni Exhibition
Infinity Gallery, Boston, MA; Group Exhibition
1995
Guggenheim Gallery, CA; 10th Annual Juried Exhibition
Timbuktu Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA; Group Exhibition
1994
Costa Mesa Art League, CA; All-Media Juried Exhibition
West Coast, Works On Paper, CA; Juried Exhibition
1992
City of Brea Gallery, CA; Juried Exhibition
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