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Sharon Butler

bombay gin, 2002
ink, inkjet on paper
12 x 9 inches

lena and lamps, 2002
pencil, inkjet on paper
8.5 x 11 inches

coffeemaker, 2002
watercolor, inkjet on paper
12 x 9 inches
Brief Bio
Solo Exhibitions
2001 Sharon L Butler, Fontainebleau, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI 2000 Sharon L Butler, Central Fine Arts, Project Room, New York, NY 1999 Sharon L Butler, Natural Fictions, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI 1998 Sharon L Butler, Pure Pigment Fiction, Grand Central, Tampa, FL 1997 Sharon L Butler, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY. 1996 Sharon L Butler, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY. 1995 Sharon L Butler, Yellow Paintings, Gallery One, Providence, RI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Sharon L. Butler: Outlines and Diagrams / Afarin Rahmanifar: Heads
and Bodies, Windham Arts Center Gallery, Willimantic, CT
2001 Boston International Fine Art Exhibition, Grand Central Gallery,
Boston, MA
Connecticut State University Faculty Exhibition, Central Connecticut State
University, Samuel Chen Fine Arts Center, New Britain, CT.
Summer Invitational Exhibition, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI.
2000 Millennium: New Gifts and Acquisitions, William Benton Museum of
Art, Storrs, CT
1998 Summer Invitational, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Biennial at Ben Shahn Galleries: Lines of Direction, William Patterson
University<
Wayne, NJ
1997 New York Drawers, The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Gasworks, London (traveling)
" " The Corner House, Manchester, UK
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklym Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY
1996 Tufts University Alumnae Artists Salon, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts
Univ, Medford, MA
Preview Reception, Living Room Salon, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
Another bit of Faience brightens Gray Gallery, Bill Van Siclen, The Providence
Journal, February 5, 1999.
Pure Pigment Fiction: The Paintings of Sharon L. Butler, Dion Kliner,
essay, Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, Florida, 1998.
The Real, the Imagined and the Imagining in the work of Sharon L. Butler,
Dominique Nahas, catalogue essay, Central Fine Arts, New York, 1997.
In the Provinces: Dialogues with Nature, Anna Flores, Quix Rhode Island
Arts Quarterly, Spring 1995.
Survey Patches of Landscape; Ups and Downs in Sculpture, Bill Van Siclen,
The Providence Journal, February 17, 1995.
Naked Zymurgy, Walter McConnell, catalogue essay, University of Connecticut
at Storrs, 1994.
In Kent: 2 Galleries, 3 Sites, 4 Shows, Vivian Raynor, The New York Times,
August 8, 1993.
Awards
The Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Fellowship, 1997.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., NY, NY: Grant recipient, 1989-90.
Vermont Studio School &
Artist's Colony, Johnson, VT: Work Exchange Grant, 1988.
Education
University of Connecticult, Storrs, CT, 1994: M.F.A.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA: B.F.A.
Tufts University, Medford, MA: B.A., art history
Teaching
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT: Assistant Professor,
September 2000-present. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI: Adjunct.
State University of New York, Farmingdale, NY: Assistant Professor, Jan.
1998-2000.
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