About the Artist
Diana Cutrone
A life dedicated to art
Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone wants to tell it. And everyone loves a story told well; everyone wants to hear it. Everyone wants to know and be known.
Artists are no different. They have just chosen to tell the story in a slightly different way. Art is, I think, always both a story and a mirror. Maybe they are one and the same. At its best, at its truest, it lets you see yourself, your world through someone else's story, which may very well be what you were seeing and saying already. It's like the lover who loves you back; who returns you to yourself in a slightly altered light.
The artist's job, therefore, is really quite simple. To be both a storyteller and a mirror. He or she only has to do both things well - to have something true to say, no matter how small, and to say it wonderfully. To give us back to ourselves.
It's a life-long assignment.
Awards
International Online Exhibit, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society – Award of Merit
Union Images, AFL-CIO – First Place Award
Madison Art Fair on the Square - Invitational Award
Old Town Art Fair – Best of Show, Painting Category
Lincolnshire Festival of Fine Arts – Best of Show
Portrait Show, Palette and Chisel – First Place Award
Annual Baer Art Competition, Beverly Art Center –Best Figurative Work
Anderson Art Center – Solo Exhibit Award
Solo Exhibits
Mill Pond Gallery
Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Anderson Art Center
Performing Arts Center, DeKalb Georgia
Small Group & Invitational Exhibits
Lagerquist Gallery, two person show with Albert Handell
For Women Only, Anderson Art Center
Figurative Art League
Noyes Cultural Center
Art For Animals Sake, Las Manos Gallery
Condition/Response, Brenau University
Chastain Art Center
David Adler Cultural Center
Juried Exhibits, among others:
Oil Painters of America, National Exhibit
Oil Painters of America, Eastern Regional Exhibits
Butler Institute of American Art, Mid-year Exhibit
National Weather Service Bienniale
Naked or Nude? Fine Art Building Gallery
Millenium 2000, Chesterton Art Gallery
23rd Annual Baer Art Competition, Beverly art Center
Winter Juried Exhibit, Anderson Art Center
Portraits by Women, Woman Made Gallery
National Arts Council, City Gallery of Atlanta
Anam Gallery
Reinvent Gallery
Kingsfoot Gallery
Permanent Collections, among others:
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Duchossois
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and Mr. Robert Creamer
Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Ms. Margaret Kirkpatrick
The Sanctuary, Kiawah Island
Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless
Illinois Institute of Art
Susan And Robert Toland
Patricia Moore
Laura Small
Avon Yngve
Education
BA, College of Wooster
Post-Graduate
Cleveland Institute of Art
Cooper School of Art
Atlanta College of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Master Classes/Workshops with
Marc Chatov
Albert Handel
Nelson Shanks
Reviews
Artscope, “artwork that is accessible, faultless technique”
Artscope, “displays a polished but forthright realist approach.”
