An award-winning NYC blogazine, primarily about painting
Friday, January 9, 2026
Last Artist Standing, Sharon Louden’s compelling new anthology, features essays by a selection of artists who have managed to pass 50 and still make art. Such persistence and durability are especially impressive considering that many of their art school pals have given up the studio and resigned themselves to “real jobs” as building contractors, real estate agents, lawyers, psychotherapists, librarians, and more…,
Contributed by Sharon Louden / On Friday, I spent almost three hours at theSatellite Art Fair and returned for another half hour on Saturday. It […]
Contributed by Sharon Louden / Thank you, Sharon Butler, for giving me the opportunity to be a guest contributor from�the art fairs in Miami Beach […]
I frequently get pitches via email from art consultants who offer to help me (and I imagine many other artists) get exhibitions, grants, publicity, and […]
The best geometric abstraction goes beyond the formal arrangement of line, shape, and color to connect with larger themes and issues. In “GEOMETRIX: Line, Form, […]
Contributed by guest correspondent Sharon Louden / As this is my last post for Two Coats of Paint, I’ll go out with a bang — […]
Contributed by guest correspondent Sharon Louden / I love being a guest contributor–blogging is a good challenge, and having the opportunity to share images of […]
Contributed by guest correspondent Sharon Louden / Today, I ventured out to Untitled, a curated art fair which I believe is by far the leading […]
Contributed by guest correspondent Sharon Louden / To acclimate myself to the massive quantity of work at the art fairs in Miami Beach, I thought […]
HELL YES, the Miami art fairs are just around the corner! As usual, Art Basel Miami Beach–the biggest of the fairs, with 250 of the […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / For several years Sharon Louden, who studied painting when she got her MFA at Yale, has been making large-scale, site-specific […]
In addition to many other projects, artist Sharon Louden spent the last two years editing Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working […]
In the Philadelphia Inquirer, Edith Newhall writes about Sharon Louden’s installation at Gallery Joe: If you’ve seen Sharon Louden’s paintings and drawings, you’ve noticed how […]
In The Birmingham News Michael Huebner reports that The Birmingham Museum of Art has commissioned New York artist Sharon Louden to create 12 paintings that […]
