artist statement
My images suggest hidden stories, playful or private moments that speak to vulnerability within strength, sensuality within power. Through my paintings I knit fragments of personal experience, shifting between what the world perceives and the myths we create. Drawn from a range of photographic sources, my subjects are composites, sharing traits that are both male and female, child and adult, animal and human.
Most recently, I have become obsessed with lather and it's range of associations: how it conceals and reveals, is both sexual and childlike, fleeting against clean flesh.
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SHARON SHAPIRO
Born:Bluefield, WVLives and works in Charlottesville, VAEDUCATION
BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GASan Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CAVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VAGrants and Residencies
2010 Residency, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2009 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sharon Shapiro: New Watercolors and Paintings, Livity, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Half Of What You See, Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainesville,GA
2005 OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2002 Treat, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1999 Hybrid, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA1998 Inhabitant, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Work, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NY,1997 New Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996The Cleave Pageant, Chassie Post Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Serial Thrillers, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA (forthcoming)
2010 Seeing Double, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA (curated by Kristina Durocher)
2010 Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2010 Exhibit, University of Mary Washington Gallery,
Fredericksburg, VAPlayful Things, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO2009 Summer Sexy, Online Exhibition, Winkleman Gallery and Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
2008 Tasty Morsels, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 Guilty Pleasures, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2006 Image Feminine, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY2004 Inside Out, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2003 30 YEARS: Three Decades of Art at Second Street Gallery, Second Street
Gallery,Charlottesville, VAUnlikely Portraits, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MASelect 2003, Art Auction, WPA/Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC2002 Sugar & Spice, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Venus, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Sweet Work of Nature, Main Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH1999 The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1997 Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Figure Eight, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, ILSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Best Artist, C-Ville Weekly: Best of Issue, August 11, 2009.
Parsons, Laura. "Raw Talent: Shapiro and Read Bare All." The Hook, March 12, 2009. 2007 Fox, Catherine. “Painter’s Keen Eye Unmasks Cultural Failings.” Atlanta
Journal Constitution, September 16, 2007. Best Artist, C-Ville Weekly: Best of Issue, August 4, 2007.Alexander, Mike. “Interview with Sharon Shapiro.” Albemarle
Magazine, February/March 2007, 22, 23.2006 Rose, Joshua, and Terri Dodd. “American Art Collector: The Tullman
Collector.” American
Art Collector Magazine, October 2006, 77. Cover Image. C-Ville Weekly, July 4, 2006, 2.“Leading Ladies Part II.” American
Art Collector Magazine, February 2006, 98-99.2005 “OA Gallery.” The Oxford American, Fall 2005, 32.
McQuaid, Kate. “Gallery Pick.” The
Boston Globe, March 24, 25. “The Front.” The
Oxford American, Winter 2005, 12-13.2004 Parsons, Laura. “Gender Studies.”, The Hook, September 9, 2004, 9.
“Circles Roundabout (featured piece).” Veranda
Magazine. December 2004, 220. 2003 Miami Houses. Barcelona, Spain: Loft Publications, 2003.
2002 McQuaid, Kate. “The Stories ‘Portraits’ Tell Us.” The Boston Globe, March 28, 2002.
Workman, Michael. “The
Perception of Physical Desire: A Conversation with Peregrine
Honig and Sharon Shapiro.” Bridge Magazine, Fall/Winter
2002, 142-150. Cover Image. New American Paintings, no. 39(May 2002),126-129.Cullum, Jerry. “Pretty ‘Treats’ That Could be Troubling.” The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 15, 2002, Q6.2001 Joiner, Dorothy. Review. Art Papers, September/October 2001, 35.
Cover Image. West Branch (Bucknell University Press), no. 48(Spring 2001). “Modern Romance: Chassie Post in Tribeca (featured piece).” House Beautiful, March 2001, 106, 111.2000 New American Paintings, no. 27(April 200): 138-141.
1999 Cover Image. Decorating Magazine (Better Homes and Gardens Special
Interest Publications), Winter 1999, 14.1998 New American Paintings, no. 15(April 1998): 98-99, 125, 127.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
2010 Playful Things. With essay by Nancy Weant. Warrensburg MO:
University of Central Missouri, 20102007 Half of What You See. With essay by Debra Wolf. Gainesville, GA:
Brenau University, 2007.2006 Image Feminine: Laurent Dareau, Sharon Shapiro, Daena Tittle. Edited by
James Panozzo. Los Angeles, CA: Lawrence Asher Gallery, 2006. 2004 It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity. Edited by Leah Stoddard.
Charlottesville, VA: Second Street Gallery, 2004. With essay by Jerry Cullum, “Reimagining
the Humidity Index: Notes on New Drawings and Paintings by Sharon Shapiro.”2003 Select 2003 Art Auction. Edited by Amy Moorefield. Washington, DC:
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2003.30 Years, Three Decades of New Art at Second Street Gallery. Edited by Leah Stoddard. Charlottesville, VA: Second Street Gallery, 2003.SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Brenau University Gallery, Gainesville, GAMuseum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GAThe Tullman Collection, Chicago ILStan Topol & Associates, Atlanta, GAKing & Spalding, Atlanta, GAKilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GASaks Fifth Avenue, Cherry Hill, NJSilverchair Communications, Charlottesville, VANeal R. Deputy Architect Inc., Miami, FLMr. Michael G. Klein, Beverly Hills, CAMs. Carol Cole-Levin, Greensboro, NC