SHARON BUTLER

June 28, 2022

SHARON BUTLER

Born 1959, Connecticut, USA

Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

MFA, Art, University of Connecticut, 1994

BFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, 1987

BA, Art History, Tufts University, MA, 1981

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Next Moves,” solo, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, NY, 2022”

“Morning in America,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2021

“New Paintings,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2018

“Good Morning Drawings,” SEASON, Seattle, WA, 2017

“Sharon Butler,” Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2016

“New Social Situations,” Beacon, NY., 2015

“Dense Surveillance,” SUNY Westchester, NY, 2013

“Precisionist Casual,” Pocket Utopia, NY, 2013

“Gone Wrong,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2012

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Spaces of Memory & Imagination,” Silber Gallery, Goucher College, MD, 2023

“In the Studio,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2023

“Pitches and Scripts,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2023

“Garden of Delight,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022

“Guided by Voices,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2022

“TANGO,” Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022

AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Resident, 2018.

Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant / Follow-up Grant: Two Coats of Paint, 2016.

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Resident, 2015.

Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant / Blog category, 2013-14.

Counterproof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT: Artist in Residence, 2014.

Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism: Artist Fellowship, 2008.

Blue Mountain Center Artists and Writers Colony: Fellowship, 1997.

University of Connecticut: Graduate Fellowship, 1990-91.

Vermont Studio Center: Work Study Grant, 1988.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Grant Recipient, 1989-90.

SELECTED REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS / ANTHOLOGIES

Eraser 4, Interviews with Sharon Butler, Matt Kleberg, Jered Sprecher, Jason Stopa, Vadis Turner, Thornton Willis. Edited by Brian Edmunds. Birmingham, AL, Curating Contemporay, 2022

Brainard Carey, “Sharon Butler,” Praxis Interviews on Yale Radio, podcast, January 27, 2022

Laurie Fendrich, “Accidental on Purpose: Sharon Butler at Theodore:Art,” artcritical,web, February 26, 2021

James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, March 2021

Loren Monk, “Sharon Butler at Theodore:Art,” James Kalm Rough Cuts, video review, January 26, 2021

Leslie Wayne, “Light is Beauty: Sharon Butler talks art, life and blogging,” artcritical, Oct. 1, 2018

Paul D’Agostino, “Instagram Cats: Sharon Butler’s new paintings based on iPad drawings are telling you, quite frankly, that surfaces matter,” Hyperallergic, Sept. 22, 2018

Patrick Neal, “Philosophical Paintings that Bare Their Process,” Hyperallergic, February 5, 2016

Benjamin Riley, “The Critic’s Notebook,” The New Criterion, February 2, 2016

Howard Halle, “Critic’s Picks: Sharon Butler,” Time Out New York, January 25, 2016

VISITING ARTIST / CRITIC / LECTURER

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Parsons at the New School, New York, NY

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Brown University, Providence, RI

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Penn State University, State College, PA

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI

Minneapolis School of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Hunter College MFA Program, New York, NY

School of Visual Arts MFA Program, New York, NY

Hoffberger School of Painting, Baltimore, MD

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle, WA

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition

January 20 - March 11, 2023

Adam Simon reviews Sharon Butler’s NEXT MOVES on The Brooklyn Rail

Adam Simon reviews Sharon Butler’s “Next Moves” in the October 2022 issue of The Brooklyn Rail

September 15 – November 15, 2022

NEXT MOVES

Sharon Butler

Sept 15 - Nov 15, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition

July 13 - August 17, 2022

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MICHAEL MCCLARD

December 29, 2021

MICHAEL MCCLARD

Lives and works in California

Brooklyn Museum is showcasing MOTIVE, a film by Michael McClard

November 11, 2022 - April 16, 2023

TANGO

Summer Exhibition

July 13 - August 17, 2022

BIZARRE DELIGHT

Michael McClard

Jan 26 - Feb 28, 2022

MICHAEL MCCLARD

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JAYE MOON

December 29, 2021

JAYE MOON

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

ARTIST BIO

Since the 1990s, Jaye Moon has been crafting interactive Braille paintings using Lego bricks. Leveraging the diverse colors and shapes of Lego pieces, Moon transcends the traditional boundaries of visual art by exploring the intricate relationship between touch and sight and creates a tactile abstract work.

Jaye Moon (b. 1963) holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute in New York. Her selected exhibitions include the Nam June Paik Art Center, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea, and the Queens Museum in New York. Moon received a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship, and an AHL Foundation Grant. Moon has participated in Nars Foundation and Fountainhead Residency in the US Popnami! Residency in Munich and CJ Art Studio Residency in Cheongju, Korea. Moon’s exhibitions were featured in Whitehot Magazine, Art in America, and Artforum. Jaye Moon is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery.

Brooklyn Museum : The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

October 4, 2024 – January 26, 2025

TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

Sept 3 - Nov 2, 2024

GANGNAM, SEOUL PERFECT LOVERS August 16 - October 19, 2024

TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

Sept 5 - Oct 19, 2024

JANET TAYLOR PICKETT, ZHANG HONGTU, PINK and THE CORPSES 

Oct 5 – 31, 2023

PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

June 15 – Sept 27, 2023

Jaye Moon included in New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition

Jaye Moon is included in the New York Foundation for the Arts exhibition

October 30, 2022 - October 29, 2023

TANGO

Summer Exhibition

July 13 - August 17, 2022

Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Jaye Moon Soars On Wings of Desire by Paul Laster | April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022

WINGS OF DESIRE

Jaye Moon

March 25 - April 27, 2022

JAYE MOON

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JENNIFER CHO

December 3, 2021

….. “The heart of Greater New York dwells in P.S. 1’s basement. Amidst the antiquated machinery in the basement boiler room glistens Jennifer Cho’s “Haystacks,” straw-like bundles of sliced CDs created through a process she describes as “slow-tech.”

by Logan Hill, WIRED, April 5, 2000

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WOLF KAHN

November 20, 2020

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MR.

November 20, 2020

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BEAUFORD DELANEY

November 20, 2020

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NAOMI SAVAGE

April 29, 2020

Naomi Savage, photographer, born June 25, 1927 and died at her home in Princeton, New Jersey, on November 22, 2005. While still in high school, she took a class in photography at the New School for Social Research with Berenice Abbott. Some twenty years earlier, Abbott had studied photography in Paris with Man Ray, who was Naomi Savage’s uncle. In 1946, Savage enrolled in Bennington College, where she studied art and music, but before graduating, left to be an apprentice for Man Ray in Hollywood. He taught her that photography was above all a creative process, one of many tools that could be used for the purpose of visual expression. When she returned to New York in 1948, she combined her love of music with her skill in photography by taking portraits of the best known composers of day: Aaron Copland, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, etc. (over 30 in all). Throughout her career, she experimented with the medium of photography, continuously inventing new and highly original techniques. Perhaps her best known work is a series of metal photo engravings (1972) dominating the walls of the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. In her later years, she became attracted to the enormous potential of digital imagery, experimenting with various methods to manipulate and enhance color, even using new and unconventional materials for laser printing. She exhibited widely, most recently at the Montclair Art Museum, and her photographs are included in major institutional collections throughout the United States……………..provided by Francis M. Naumann.

Francis M. Naumann is an art historian, who specializes in art of the Dada and Surrealist period. He has written extensively on the art of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. His New York Dada 1915-23 (1994) is considered the definitive history of the movement, and his “Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York” (1996) is the most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever assembled. His doctoral dissertation was on Man Ray’s early years in New York, later published as Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray (2003). Throughout his years of his research on Man Ray, he met Naomi Savage and, over the years, they became good friends.

NAOMI SAVAGE

Unexplored Limits

April - June, 2020

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MAN RAY

April 19, 2020

Painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, draftsman…Man Ray has never limited himself to a single medium of artistic expression, tirelessly seeking new possibilities of creation or diversion of existing techniques. Considering art essentially as a game, he refused to attach himself to a determined style. Man Ray was born in 1980 in Philadelphia. In 1913, he discovered at the exhibition The Armory Show in New York European artists like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. With Marcel Duchamp he created and experimented with optical devices to study motion. He participated in the Dada movement in New york until 1921, when he left for France. As he arrived in Paris, Marcel Duchamp introduced him to the Parisian artistic scene. It was the beginning of an intense period of creation: photographs (fashion, portraits, art), exhibitions, films…In the interwar period Paris, Man Ray frequents all the greatest actors of creation, Dadaists, Surrealists, writers, filmmakers, fashion designers…In 1940, Man Ray had to leave France for the United States, where he realized major works like the Shakespearian paintings, etc. Man Ray returned to Paris in 1951, moved to rue Ferou where he painted, drew, wrote his memoirs and continued to use photographic processes. Thus begins the edition of his objects “Objects of my affection” first with Marcel Zerbib, then with Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray died on November 18, 1976 in Paris. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery.

…………………………………………. excerpt from Man Ray International Association

Mathematical Object (Anthony) is one of some twenty photographs taken by Man Ray in 1934-35 of mathematical models located in the Institut Poincaré in Paris. Twelve of the photographs were featured in a 1936 issue of the journal Cahiers d’Art devoted to the “object” and four were exhibited in MoMA’s exhibition the same year, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism. The models were drawn to his attention by Max Ernst, who had discovered them and thought them exceptionally provocative, surreal shapes. The models were used to render complex mathematical formulae into three-dimensional form, but it was not their origin in mathematics that attracted the interests of Man Ray. “The formulas accompanying them meant nothing to me,” he later explained, “the forms themselves were as varied and authentic as any in nature” (Self-Portrait, 1963, p. 368). While living in Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, Man Ray used the photographs he had taken in the Institut Poincaré as the basis of a series of pictures that he grouped under the title “The Shakespearean Equations,” which, in true Dada and Surrealist fashion, had as little to do with Shakespeare as they did with equations. Man Ray retrieved the photographs he had printed in the 1930s on a trip back to Paris in 1947, and this example is believed to be among them. This particular print is often titled Antony, as we know that it was used as the basis for the figure of Anthony in his painting Antony and Cleopatra, 1948.

MAN RAY

A l’Heure de l’observatoire—les amoureux

April - June, 2020

MAN RAY

April - June 2020

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SOPHIE MATISSE

April 1, 2020

Sophie Matisse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1965. She began her studies at the Massachusetts Collage of Art in Boston and later, continued her studies at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Shortly after settling in New York City, in 1996, she began her first series of paintings, Be back in 5 minutes and has participated in many national and international exhibitions ever since. Now, she is working on a new series of paintings accompanied by a collection of short films reflecting on her memories of playing chess with her family while growing up. Her work is included in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Flint Institute of Art, The Montclair Art Museum and The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum.

BORN

1965 in Massachusetts. Lives and Works in New York

EDUCATION
1985 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
1988 – 1990 École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

The Whitney Museum of American Art

Montclair Art Museum

The Flint Institute of Art

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 BE BACK IN 5, BAAHNG GALLERY, NEW YORK, April – May, 2020

DEPICTING MARCEL DUCHAMP, FRANCIS NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, JANUARY 10 – FEBRUARY 28, 2020

CONSTRUCTION IDENTITY IN AMERICAN ART, MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 – JANUARY 5, 2020

BOHAIN ET MATISSE 1870-1903, LA MAISON FAMILIALE HENRI MATISSE, BOHAIN, FRANCE, OCTOBER 12, 2019 – MARCH 1, 2020

2018 ROSE OCEAN, TANG TEACHING MUSEUM, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 17 – MAY 20, 2018

ALAIN JACQUET & SOPHIE MATISSE, SABINE WACHTERS FINE ART, KNOKKE-ZOUTE, BELGIUM, AUGUST 3 – SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

2017 MARCEL DUCHAMP FOUNTAIN, FRANCIS NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, APRIL 20 – MAY 26, 2017

MATISSE AND AMERICAN ART, MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM, NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 5 – JUNE 15, 2017

2016 LADIES KNIGHT, WORLD CHESS HALL OF FAME, ST. LOUIS, MO, OCTOBER 29, 2015 – APRIL 1, 2016

2015 PARALLELS, TIM HUNT FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 10 – 28, 2015

PAST & PRESENT, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, June 4 – April 21, 2015

STARING BACK, FLEMING MUSEUM OF ART, VERMONT, FEBRUARY 3 – JUNE 21, 2015

2014 LE SHOW DES AMIS, SHOWROOM, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 12 – 21, 2014

2013 LUNCH WITH OLYMPIA, YALE UNIVERSITY, CONNECTICUT, SEPTEMBER 20 – NOVEMBER 21, 2013

BONJOUR MONSIEUR MATISSE! RENCONTRE(S), MAMAC DE NICE, FRANCE, JUNE 21 – NOVEMBER 24, 2013

NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE: AN HOMAGE, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 15 – MARCH 29 ,2013

2012 SOPHIE MATISSE: IT’S TIME, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, MAY 2 – JUNE 15, 2012.

2010 SECONDE MAIN, MUSEE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, FRANCE, MARCH 25 – OCTOBER 24, 2010

SOPHIE MATISSE, THE NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NY, JANUARY 22 – MAY 22, 2010

THE VISIBLE VAGINA, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, JANUARY 27 – MARCH 20, 2010

VERMEER. THE ART OF PAINTING, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM VIENNA, VIENNA AUSTRIA, JANUARY 25 TO APRIL 25, 2010

2009 SPECIAL EDITION (GOLD) PERFUME BOTTLES, A COLLABORATION WITH KILIAN HENNESSY, DECEMBER, 2009

THE ART OF CHESS, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 30, 2009

THE ART OF THE GAME, SPECIAL EDITION CHESS SETS. BEYOND THE BORDER INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, SAN DIEGO, CA , SEPTEMBER 2 – 4, 2009

BLACK MADONNA, HP GARCIA GALLERY, NEW YORK,(CURATOR: LISA PAUL STREITFELD)

2008 SPECIAL EDITION PERFUME BOTTLES, A COLLABORATION WITH KILIAN HENNESSY

PENTIMENTI, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, MARCH 14 – APRIL 30, 2008

2007 THE DEMOISELLES REVISITED, GROUP EXHIBITION, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 21, 2007

FRENCH KISSES, JGM GALERIE. PPARIS, MAY 24th – JUNE 30th

2006 SOPHIE MATISSE: BE BACK IN 5 MINUTES AND ZEBRA STRIPE PAINTINGS, SALT LAKE ART CENTER, SALT LAKE CITY, JANUARY – MARCH 2006 (CURATOR: JIM EDWARDS)

2005 SOPHIE MATISSE: THE ZEBRA STRIPE PAINTINGS, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK, NOV 18 – DEC 30, 2005

SOPHIE MATISSE’S GUERNICA, FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEPTEMBER 24, 2005

SOPHIE MATISSE DRAWINGS, ORGANIZED BY THE BLUE HERON PRESS,PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, NEW YORK, (CURATOR: JUDITH GOLDMAN)

SOPHIE MATISSE, nKATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, KATONAH, NEW YORK, JULY- AUGUST (CURATOR: MIMI THOMPSON)

2004 SELF-PORTRIATS, DEITCH PROJECTS, NEW YORK (CURATOR: DODIE KAZANJIAN)

ON LINE, FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY, NEW YORK

2003 AFTERSHOCK: THE LEGACY OF THE READYMADE IN AMERICAN POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART, DICKINSON GALLERY, NEW YORK.

SOPHIE MATISSE DOES GUERNICA, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NY

2002 SOPHIE MATISSE, FRANCIS M. NAUMANN FINE ART, NEW YORK (FIRST SOLO SHOW IN NEW YORK)

2001 SOPHIE MATISSE, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS HEADQUARTERS, BOSTON (CURATOR: CAROL WARNER)

2000 THE 100 SMILES OF THE MONNA LISA, METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM, TOKYO; SHIZUOKA MUSEUM OF ART AND THE HIROSHIMA MUSEUM OF ART (CURATOR: JEAN-MICHEL RIBETTES)

1999 REAL TO SURREAL, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (CURATOR: MARC SINK)

1999 RE: DUCHAMP, ABRAHAM LUBELSKY GALLERY, NEW YORK (CURATOR: MIKE BIDLO)

1998 ACTS OF FAITH, GARRISON, NEW YORK (CURATOR: WILLOUGHBY SHARP)