Corda Eby

Corda Eby, born in South Dakota on September 19, 1934, moved to California as a child and graduated from Scripps College in 1956. During her time there, she studied painting and sculpture under Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, and Albert Stewart, winning the College's sculpture prize in her junior year. Eby has since spent much of her life in Italy, where her love for Italian painting and Mediterranean culture deeply influenced her art.

Her work combines elements of classical art with personal, spiritual imagery, drawing from the beauty of everyday objects and the magic found in the mundane. Fragments of Duccio and Simone Martini coexist with ancient symbols, like an Etruscan egg, in surreal compositions. Objects like the heliodon, a farmer's tool for tracking the sun, are juxtaposed with child’s marbles, transforming them into celestial bodies. These elements, paired with symbols like lilies and Madonnas, reflect Eby’s extraordinary spiritual sensibility and her ability to create vivid, original visuals that resonate with both clarity and depth.