Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I�ve got several upcoming events to share with readers, including: April 17-a panel discussion at the National Arts Club; April 28 & 29-Dumbo Open Studios; May 6-12-Two Coats welcomes Resident Artist Craig Stockwell; May 18-Two Coats of Paint event at the Metropolitan Museum in May; June 1 – keynote […]
Contributed by Sharon Butler / �”Painting Not Painting� is an exhibition at ‘sindikit, the�project space run by Tim Doud and Zo� Charlton�in Baltimore.�Artists include Paolo Arao,�Rush Baker,�Sharon Butler,�Dan Devening,�Phaan Howng,�Sabina Ott + Kelly Lloyd, and�Jo Smail. From the�press release: The artists participating in Project 8 are all artists who have […]
UPDATE (May 26): Thanks Erin Langner for including the exhibition in art ltd Magazine‘s “Critic’s Picks“�section. The show is on view through June 3o: New York artist�Sharon Butler�s “Good Morning Drawings”�play with expectations of painting�s role to the digital world. Pushing past the oft-revisited inquiry into the medium�s pending death, […]
I have two shows opening this week: A�solo show�(S-105)�curated by Robert Yoder/SEASON at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair�and the Paris iteration of ��Deux C�t�s / Two Sides,� at�Galerie Jean Fournier.��This exhibition is the second�of a two-part collaboration, presented with �Theodore:Art�in Brooklyn. If you are in either neighborhood, I hope you […]
This week I bought a cheap tent and headed to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, Connecticut, for a break from the city. I wanted to see the starry sky, draw by the nearly-full moon, and wake up before dawn to watch the sunrise on the beach. The 500-site campground […]
UPDATE: The show has been extended through February 21, 2016. Images of the paintings on view are available here. Big thanks to all the critics who have responded to the show: Enrico Gomez, “Sharon Butler,” WagMag, February 10, 2016. Patrick Neal, “Philosophical Paintings that Bare Their Process,” Hyperallergic, February 5, […]
I have a few upcoming events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hartford, and Greensboro that I’d like to tell readers about. I hope you can join me if you are nearby. [Image at top: On view at EBK Gallery in October: Sharon Butler, Cybercave, 2015, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 […]
As a guest at Yaddo this summer (studio pictured above with work in progress), I have access to a lovely library, which is located in a neo-classical building in the center of the compound. Built in 1910, the stucco-clad structure also houses the residency office and the grounds garage, and […]
I’ll be working in Long Island City for the next few months and then heading back to DUMBO, where I’ve been invited to participate in the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program. Two Trees, a major real estate developer in DUMBO, announced last June that they were planning to […]
Matthew J. Mahler, B T W #1[by the way], 2013, acrylic and dye on canvas, 36 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Sardine. In fall 2012, the flooding and devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy prompted me to think about processes like soaking and staining; in the studio I started to thin […]
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