Background
Sharon Butler was born in the United States. The date of her birth is unknown.
Sharon Butler was born in the United States. The date of her birth is unknown.
Sharon Butler has had a lifetime interest in, and love for, American Indian art, as is her ongoing fascination with form design and color. Sharon works in all mediums, but most prefers acrylics with which she can obtain a ”beaded” three- dimensional effect, a signature technique for which she is most well known. Sharon also incorporates leather and authentic materials in her art to create the illusion of where one medium begins and where one ends.
An artist and writer, Sharon Butler publishes the influential art blog Two Coats of Paint, which was awarded a grant from the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program in 2013 - 2014. Her notable articles include "Abstract Painting: The New Casualists", written in 2011, and "The Casualist Tendency", written in 2014.
Her recent exhibitions in New York City include NADA New York, Makebish, Lesley Heller, The Painting Center, Pocket Utopia, Storefront Ten Eyck, Theodore:Art, Norte Maar, and Parallel Art Space Other recent exhibitions include Union College in Schenectady, SUNY Westchester, George Lawson in San Francisco, Season gallery in Seattle, and the Islip Art Museum. Her work has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, the American Prospect, and other publications.
ince January 2013, Butler has been affiliated with Brown University, where she teaches a course on artists’ books. In 2014 she was the Artist-in-Residence at Counterproof Press at the University of Connecticut. Butler currently lives and works in New York City. She also publishes artists’ books and hosts a short-term residency for artists who live outside the city. In the 2017 - 1018 academic year, she taught painting at Parsons and an MFA seminar at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Sharon Butler adheres to the artistic traditions of Provisional Painting (New Casualism).
