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Cynthia Harris-Pagano specializes in oil and pastel portraits in her
North Light Studio in Otisville, New York - one hour Northwest of
New York City.
Her studio, especially built on to her home brings in a North light
which gives beautiful light and shade to the face and clothing.
Traveling to a client's home to sketch and photograph, or, working
from a favorite photograph sent to her, Ms. Harris-Pagano concentrates
inwardly on the intonation of color, light, and how personality is
expressed.
In High School Cynthia traveled by herself on the Long Island Railroad,
from Plandome, LI to take classes at the the Art Students League.
At Vassar College she took classes in sculpture with Concetta Scarvaglione
(who came two days from New York City.), then switched to painting
with Rosemarie Beck.
Settling in Otisville with her husband, Angelo, and two children,
she painted a semi-abstract series of large paintings, Genesis: Creation
and Flood. After this and other large feminist/psychological paintings,
she came to her full commitment in portrait painting.
This led her back to the Art Students' League Anatomy Lectures with
Robert Beverly Hale and to a workshop in North Salem, NY with Daniel
Greene.
Then, the attachment of a North Light Studio of her own, in Otisville,
and six more years of study with John Osborne at the Ridgewood Art
Institute, New Jersey. This effort represents a "picking up"
of the thread, started in Barbizon, France (Corot and Others Plein
Air), and continuing thru the Academy Julien, Paris (where Women were
first permitted to paint the figure). Cynthias portraits are
now in public and private collections in the USA, Canada, England,
Sweden and Italy.
Cynthia Harris-Pagano is a member of The Portrait Society of America,
and The Catharine Lorillard Woolfe Art Club.
2021 |
Best in Show, Portrait of Rebecca, Middletown
Art Group Online Juried Show, Orange County Community College,
Middletown, NY |
2019 |
Two Artists Still Life Exhibit, The Berkshire Bank, presented
by The Goshen Art League
Five Portraits of Musicians featured in Music: A Visual
Perspective,,Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown, NY
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2018 |
North Light: A Painters Study, Created and
curated by Cynthia with her own and works of other artists,
Amity Gallery, Warwick, NY
Award of Excellence, Middletown Art Group, Orange County
Community College, NY
Second Prize Floral Exhibit, Wallkill River School Art Gallery,
Montgomery, New York
Chosen as an artist/mentor for Hudson Valley Artist Mentors,
curated by Mary Mugele Sealfon, The Howland Cultural Center,
Beacon, NY
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2017 |
Featured Artist in Wurtsboro Art Alliance Exhibit, John Neilson
Gallery, Wurtsboro, NY |
2016 |
Solo Exhibit, Painting in North Light, Desmond
Campus, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh NY |
2015 |
Featured in Exhibit The Art of Portraiture where
Cynthia gave Master Class lecture, Portrait
History in Western Art: A Painters Study. Orange
Hall Gallery, Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY |
2015 |
First Prize, Portrait of Angelo Conducting, Juried
Portrait Exhibit, Wallkill River School Art Gallery, Montgomery,
NY |
2013 |
Showing of d the "Genesis: Creation and Flood" paintings
in Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. The painting
Firmament was chosen for Parting Shot by Chronogram,
Arts and Culture, Magazine. To see a slide show of this
series, click here. |
2012 |
Best in Show at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County
Community College, Middletown, NY |
2011 |
Best in Show at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County
Community College, Middletown, NY |
2006 |
Connecticut Pastel Society Award at the 34th Open juried Exhibition
of the Pastel Society of America, The National Arts Club, NYC |
2005 |
American Artists Professional League Award at the Ridgewood
Art Institute 26th Annual Regional Open Juried Show, Ridgewood,
New Jersey |
2005 |
Best in Show at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County
Community College, Middletown, NY |
2004 |
Best in Show at the MAG Juried Show, Orange County
Community College, Middletown, NY |
2002 |
Arthur Maynard Memorial Award at the Ridgewood Art Institute. |
1997 |
Young Woman in Brown Vest was reproduced in Pastel
Highlights, in 1997, an American Artist Publication. |
1976 |
Featured artist in the Hudson Valley Magazine |
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