The Marion Art Center will host 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 to 8 p.m. 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 fresh floral arrangements interpreting the paintings.

On Saturday, June 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both artists will give demonstrations in their portable studios at the Marion Art Center on the Pleasant Street patio.

About the artists

Soon after graduation from the School of Art & Design, Suffolk University in Boston, Cedrone began 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 she 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. She lives in a suburb of Boston with her husband, daughter and two Boston Terriers, Sargent and 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, signature member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, artist member of various art associations and founder and instructor of the Neponset Valley Artists her active atelier. Weineck 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, located in Norwood. 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.

The Marion Art Center is located at 80 Pleasant St. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.  Admission is free and open to the public.