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Celeste Rapone  Chicago, IL

'Hostess'
Oil on Canvas
'Family Portrait In Front of Southwestern Painting'
Oil on Canvas

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About Celeste


Celeste Rapone earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Illustration Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. She also earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Her work is interested in drawing from themes of Dutch Golden Age painting, specifically the traditions of the grand portrait, the still life, and decorative pattern painting to explore the phenomenon of making memories. In constructing scapes that project nostalgias, Rapone’s paintings start in a place of “pretty,” and, in examining the subject’s non-idealized environment, become increasingly violated trough the use of garish color, rough texture, and a surface sediment of store-bought, celebratory trash. Rapone’s work has been shown in New York, Chicago, and Rhode Island and has been included in the 2013 New American Paintings MFA Annual.


Celeste appears in the following Top 10 lists


'Illinois'

'2014'

'#Instagram'


3 reactions displayed


"Fun! Light and airy!"

"fun colors"

"Very nice Celeste! I'm amazed that you do such crisp graphics with oils."

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