The Marion Art Center is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Kim Morin Weineck and Eli Cedrone from June 5 to July 11. A reception honoring the artists will be held on Friday, June 5 at the Marion Art Center from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the Cecil Clark Davis Gallery. The show will run until July 11. At the opening on Friday, June 5, members of the Marion Garden Group will present “Art In Bloom” exhibiting beautiful fresh floral arrangements interpreting the paintings. Special Event: On Saturday, June 27 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, both artists will give demonstrations in their “Portable Studios” at the Marion Art Center on the Pleasant Street Patio.
Eli Cedrone has always been influenced by the power of images to express ideas and emotions. “Painting is a process of discovery and decision-making where disparate elements pull together until the image is clearly expressed,” she feels. She is drawn to the human form where figures exist both in representational and painterly worlds. Often she’ll explore a narrative theme in order to capture the emotional power of a moment in time. “I think that common, everyday things can be beautiful and resonant without being manipulative or artificially provocative. For me, landscape painting is a journey in search of something that evokes a personal response to nature beyond the obvious. Ultimately my concerns are with the expressive qualities of light captured with paint.”
Soon after graduation from the School of Art & Design, Suffolk University in Boston, Eli decided to skip the harsh New England winters, choosing instead to begin her career in Bermuda at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising. She took a brief sabbatical from her job to study art in Florence, Italy. After nearly five years on “the rock” she developed a case of island fever and set her sights on California. For the next 10 years she lived in Laguna Beach, working as an illustrator and magazine designer. Marriage and the birth of her daughter brought her back to Boston where she continued studies at the School of the MFA and began painting full-time. She returns often to Bermuda and California to visit friends and teach painting workshops. She is a member of the Copley Society Boston, Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society America, the MFA Boston, Guild of Boston Artists, and Laguna Plein Air Painters.
Of her work she says, “I work primarily in oils, and feel it’s important to work from life. Contemporary Impressionism best describes my style. I often paint outdoors and develop larger works in the studio from the model, memory and a variety of references.”
Eli resides in a suburb of Boston, MA, with her husband, daughter and two Boston Terriers, Sargent & Sorolla.
Kim Morin Weineck is a pastel and oil painter who concentrates on the beauty of interpretive landscapes. She is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), Signature Member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod (PPSCC), Artist member of various art associations and Founder and Instructor of the Neponset Valley Artists (NVA) her active atelier. Look for her work to be highlighted in The Pastel Journal’s vaunted Pastel 100 issue due out April 2015. Her piece was selected from 2500+ paintings!
Kim holds a BFA in Fine Art, 2D from Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she graduated with distinction and found her artist-voice studying in Pont-Aven, Brittany, France. Kim has served as Gallery Director at Gallery9, Norwood, MA.
A mother to two young daughters, Kim describes herself as a happy wife struggling to juggle it all, which includes teaching and painting but also making homemade jam for fresh scones in the morning. “It’s a lot of fun squeezing in time to paint!”
The Marion Art Center is located at 80 Pleasant Street, Marion. Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Admission is free and open to the public.