Eli Cedrone

Eli Cedrone

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

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

website: www.elicedrone.com