"Painting is an unpredictable encounter."

An abstract painter, Sharon Butler has received numerous grants, awards and residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and her paintings are included in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Tampa, Philadelphia, Providence, London, Berlin and Kyoto. She is a professor of art at Eastern Connecticut State University, and maintains the award-winning art blog Two Coats of Paint, is a contributing writer at The Brooklyn Rail and has blogged at Art21, Hyperallergic and The Huffington Post.

Education:
Tufts University, BA, art history
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA, painting
University of Connecticut, MFA, art

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Selected Solo (and Semi-solo) Exhibitions

"Sharon L. Butler and Geoffrey Detrani," 195 Gallery, New Haven, CT. Curated by Debbie Hesse. 2011

"Sharon Butler: Selected Paintings," TowerBrook Art Project, New York, NY, 2011. Curated by Joelle Held. 2011

On Display: New Abstraction by Sharon Butler, Cathy Nan Quinlan, Joy Curtis, STOREFRONT, Brooklyn , NY, 2010. Curated by Hrag Vartanian, 2010

"Sharon Butler: New Paintings," John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2009

“Sharon Butler: Quotidian Analytics,” Alexy Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut. 2006

“Sharon Butler: Fontainebleau,” Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI. 2001

“Project Room: Sharon Butler,” Central Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2000

Selected Group Exhibitions

"Textility," Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, 2012. Curated by Joanne Mattera and Mary Birmingham.

Aqua Miami, Season (Seattle), Miami, FL, December 2011. Curated by Robert Yoder.

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Selected Writing

"Free Love," M/E/A/N/I/N/G, A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, November 2011.

"Considering the Art of War," Hyperallergic, September 16, 2011.
'Jarrett Min Davis: Guts and Glory," essay for Real Artways, Hartford, CT, September 2011.

"Abstract Painting: The New Casualists," The Brooklyn Rail, June 2011.

"Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood," The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2009.

"Show & Tell: Contemporary Practice in Artists' Books," The Brooklyn Rail, October2008.

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Links:

Website:
www.sharonlbutler.com

Two Coats of Paint:
www.twocoatsofpaint.com