Oudi Arroni

Oudi Arroni
Italian-Israeli Heritage, came to the United States in 1972.
Oudi Studio - Art, Editorial and Advertising Photography since 1979.
Museums and Magazines
Permanent collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman
House.
Exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island In Hempstead, NY, and at the
Newark Museum in Newark, NJ.
Over twenty of Oudi’s paintings are included in the corporate collection of Microedge,
Inc., NY.
Oudi has been featured in Manhattan Arts Magazine, ArtSpeak and several foreign
language publications.
Featured on “The World of Photography” CBS television program.
Education
1974 New York Institute of Photography, NY
1977 School of Visual Arts, NY
1981 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, NY
1990 The Art Students League (Drawing the Figure), NY
1992 Insituto de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1995 Academia de San Carlos (painting), Mexico City, Mexico
2007 The Art Students League (Drawing the Figure), NY
Oudi Photography Studio
1979-1992 advertising and editorial photography NYC
Teaching
Taught oil painting at the University of South Florida. Completed two murals
commissioned at the Brandon YMCA.
e-mail: oudi@oudiart.com
www.oudiphotography.com and www.oudiart.com
http://www.oudiart.com/Oudi_Figurative/oudiart2.html
Galleries and Shows
Grace Harkin Gallery, New York, NY – Group 1988
Gallery Art 54, New York, NY – Solo 1989
Deal Community Center, Deal, NJ – Solo 1989
Focus on Art, West Orange, NJ – Solo 1989
Crescent Galleries, Long Island, NY Solo 1990
Broadway Gallery Passaic, NJ – Solo 1990
Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, AZ – Group 1990
The Darvish Collection of fine Art, Naples, FL – Group 1990
Easton Gallery, Memphis, TN – Solo 1990
Thalheimers Gallery, Naples, FL – Solo 1990
Bay Ridge Festival of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY Solo 1990
Santa Fe Style Gallery, Madison, WI – Solo 1990
Gallery, Las Vegas, NV – Group 1991
Botanical Gardens, Queens, NY Solo 1991
The “A” Gallery, Palm Desert, CA – Solo 1991
Hand Artes Gallery, Truchas, NM – Group 1992
Dyansen Gallery, New York, NY Solo - 1992
UNAM Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico Solo – 1993
Galerie Des Hamptons, Westhampton, NY - Solo 1994
Signature Galleries, San Diego, CA – Solo 1994
JCC of Greater Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, FL – Solo 1995
Chandra Alexander, Tampa, FL – Group 1995
Chasen Galleries, Sarasota, FL - Group 1995
18 Thirteen Gallery, Tampa, FL – Group 1996
T.E.C.O., Tampa, FL – Solo 1996
Jean-Cocteau, Santa Fe, NM – Solo 1996
Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM – Solo 2001
Tanya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX – Group 2003
Judy Speed Way Gallery, Houston, TX – Solo 2003
Sippora Gallery, Houston, TX – Group 2003
Verlaine, New York, NY - Solo 2005
Temporary, New York, NY – Solo 2005
Sippora Gallery, Houston, TX – Group 2005
Lolita, New York, NY – Solo 2005
Barebrush, NY – Group 2006-2007
Monkdogs Gallery, NYC - Group 2007
Gallery 35,NYC-Group- 2010
Da Gallery,NYC-Group2010


Portfolio:

FACES

Silent Screams
In my long artistic career I have painted practically everything from
landscape to still life to the human figure, but I have been most
intrigued and haunted by the face, what the face says and what it really
wants to say, the face always has two faces, the mask and what’s
behind it.
Our heads are full of emotion clamoring for expression. Influenced by
a myriad of circumstances, these sensations continually speak to us.
Often undetectable these voices whisper to the depths of our souls.
They continuously guide and shape our inner core and form our outer
appearances.
At times simultaneously struggling for a voice, at other times in stark
conflict with one another, I grasp the coming together of these
expressions
The impact, the devastation, the anguish life can have on all of us have
long been a preoccupation of my mind.
With suffering and ethereal eyes, longing and searching, my images
capture the silent screams that can madden and destroy us, or come to
serve us as protective mechanisms that mask our true feelings. I invite
the viewer to gaze into an intricacy of sensations.
Wounded by disillusionment and numbed with indifference, my portraits
are like a lone bull in an arena surrounded and pierced by society.
Oudi Arroni

egghead “egghead”

30"X60" oil on paper

dripping “dripping”

30"X60" oil on paper

injured “injured”

30"X60" oil on paper

southwest “southwest”

30"X60" oil on paper