Country: Brazil
About me
Edna Carla Stradioto | brazilian | watercolor artist
Edna Carla Stradioto is a Brazilian visual artist, living in São José do Rio Preto – SP. In the visual arts, she works with the watercolor technique, which eventually talks to ink, acrylic and other media.
The poetics of her motif has been explored through the figurative style, sometimes exploring portraits, sometimes landscapes. In particular, the artist has been exploring the wind and movement, allegorically explored in the landscapes of grasses, in several series of paintings whose central element is, almost invariably, Pampas Grass. In her artistic works, she paints as if several movements produced in the air completed all the represented elements, but at the same time, as if each one of them was released in multiple tiny and short brushstrokes.
She holds a master's degree from UNESP (São José do Rio Preto – SP) and a doctorate in Comparative Modernities at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), both in the field of illustration.
She has in her curriculum twelve collective exhibitions abroad, in several important cities around the world. In Brazil, she was in twenty-three group exhibitions, and another thirteen solo exhibitions. The solo exhibitions of Linha da Cultura do Metrô SP in 2018 and 2019 (three months each year – the first with eleven watercolors and the second with nineteen watercolors) and at the Museu Casa Guilherme de Almeida (São Paulo – SP) from May 2019 to the present, with fourteen watercolors and curated by Marcelo Tápias), stand out in her career.
In 2021, she had a solo exhibition with 45 watercolors in the artistic space of Shopping Frei Caneca, for 45 days, and also, she was in a collective exhibition called Catavento, in the biggest art gallery of Brasil: Artlab Gallery, curated and organi
