Structure and Imagery

Melissa Staiger: Open the Door  Melissa Staiger: Open the Door Opening: September 21, 6-8 pm Kent Place School 42 Norwood Avenue Summit, NJ 07901 Sharon Butler, December 24, 2016, 2018, oil on canvasboard, 18 x 24 in. Sharon Butler Opening: September 7, 6 - 9 pm on view through October 7, 2018 Theodore:Art 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, NY  Nancy Elsamanoudi, Piggy, 2018, oil, acrylic, gesso and graphite on panel, 48 x 48 in.   Nancy Elsamanoudi: Stepping on the King Opening: September 7, 6-9 pm Amos Eno Gallery 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY Alex Paik, Hexagon (Klint), 2017, gouache, colored pencil, paper and nails, Dimensions variable. Alex Paik: Stretto Opening: September 7, 7 - 9 pm on view through September, 22, 2018 Trestle Gallery 850 3rd Ave, Suite 411 New York, NY

Debra Ramsay, Hue, Place, Pace, One Year of Color , 2016, acrylic on polyester film, dimensions variable (installation, detail) Debra Ramsay: HUE[S]PACE Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 6 - 8 PM September 9 - October 9, 2016 Artist's Talk: Sunday, October 2, 3PM Event: Saturday Oct 1, there will be two dance performances w/Norte Maar/Gleich Dances Odetta Brooklyn, NY info Sharon Louden, Windows, 2016, oil on paper, 8.25 x 12 inches Sharon Louden: Windows Opening Reception: September 8, 6 - 8 PM September 8 - October 8, 2016 Morgan Lehman New York, NY info  Sharon Butler, An early painting based on digital drawings featured on the artist's Instagram feed (@sharon_butler) Machines of Paint and Other Materials , curated by Jennifer Riley featuring work by :  Sharon Butler, Cora Cohen, Elizabeth Hazan, Kathleen Kucka, Doreen McCarthy, Marcie MacGuffie, Laura Newman, Erin O...

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(click image to enlarge) Looking forward to this panel discussion taking place this Sunday!

Looking forward to this! See you there . . . .  (click to enlarge) Sunday December 8, 3 PM - ? Life on Mars 56 Bogart Street Bushwick, Brooklyn

Images courtesy of the artist and Pocket Utopia From the press release: Butler finds herself pulled between the worldly confines of the Precisionists of the early twentieth century and the fey liberation of today’s Casualist abstraction. Like the Precisionists, Butler is drawn to urban settings, structures, and  HVAC  architecture – all in evidence from the windows of her Bushwick studio. Yet, like the Casualists, she seeks a mode of presentation that evokes more than the triumphs and laments of industrialization that earlier artists have already plumbed so well, embracing those inconsistent realities and searching for new ones. Sharon Butler Precisionist Casual Opening: January 6, 6 - 8 PM January 6 - February 17, 2013 Pocket Utopia 191 Henry Street New York, NY 10002 Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. 212-375-8532 

Recently I stopped by the Bushwick studio of Sharon Butler just as she was preparing for her next solo exhibit at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Butler's paintings seem to hold fast to the strictures of Minimalism but a closer inspection reveals a sensitiveness to form, a subtle use of color, and the importance of drawing sometimes found missing from that genre. That is not to say that Butler's work lacks discipline. Indeed, a mental and technical exactness are displayed as an idea is explored with a deft layering of forms and line that shows the maker's mind at work. This rigor is very often contrasted with the impulsive way the work is presented- often on un-stretched linen, pinned to the wall, or with supporting stretchers partially exposed. The result is painting that often combines the frankness and intellect of the Conceptual, with the fragility, pictorial inventiveness, and longing of the Modern. Sh...

Artist and art writer Sharon Butler Artist and art writer, Sharon Butler will participate in the Nashville Cultural Arts Project spting 2012 Insight? Outta Sight! lecture programs. The series, held @ Zeitgeist Fine Art , is designed to ignite creativity and discussion about contemporary art and social engagement. Sharon Butler is an artist and art writer who maintains the award winning art blog Two Coats of Paint and is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail. Butler has upcoming shows at Pocket Utopia in NYC, Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT and Seasons in Seattle, WA. She is a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University and divides her time between New York City and Washington DC. Sharon Butler Wednesday, March 28 Discussion: 6:30 - 7:30 pm Pot Luck: 6:00 - 6:30 pm please bring a dish/drink/question. Zeitgeist Fine Art 1819 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212

Sharon Butler , UniQlo, 2011,  pigment, polymer, pencil, silver Krylon, thread, on canvas, linen and calico cotton, around 65 x 50 inches. © the artist. Textility: Idiosyncratic Materiality The Visual Art Center of New Jersey 68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901 The exhibition opens on Friday, January 13, 6-8pm.   A fully illustrated catalog that includes essays by both curators will accompany the show. The exhibition runs through April 1, 2012.  Sunday, March 25, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm: join the artists and curators for a talk. Participating artists: Joell Baxter, Caroline Burton, Sharon Butler, Mary Carlson, Jennifer Cecere, Pip Culbert, Elisa D'Arrigo, Grace DeGennaro, Barbara Ellmann, Carly Glovinski, Elana Herzog, Marietta Hoferer, Nava Lubelski, Stephen Maine, Lael Marshall, Derek Melander, Sam Messenger, Sam Moyer, Lalani Nan, Aric Obrosey, Gelah Penn, Debra Ramsay, Susan Still Scott, Arlene Shechet, Susanna Starr, Leslie Wayne, Ken Weathersby and Pe...

As part of this year's Bushwick Open Studios , seven artists: Liz Atzberger , Sharon Butler , Brece Honeycutt , Lars Kremer , Austin Thomas , Julie Torres , and Audra Wolowiec , drew inspiration from the Moore Street Market and presented performances, installations, and a salon discussion. I stopped by on Sunday to attend the Salon discussion, led by Sharon Butler. The topic was The Economics of the Open Studio. The Moore Street Market @ Humbolt and Varet Detail of Weeds, by another name , 2011. An installation by Brece Honeycutt Artist Brece Honeycutt becomes a part of her site specific work. Market Drawings by Julie Torres Torres' installation included 14 acrylic on paper works. A salon discussion on the Economics of Open Studios moderated by Sharon Butler (on right). Above: Installation shots of Liz Atzberger's Pinata The Push Pops gave a performance on Sunday.