{"id":12217,"date":"2022-01-29T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2022-01-29T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:18:10","slug":"sharon-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/sharon-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_266\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12217-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/sharonbutler.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/sharonbutler.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/sharonbutler.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12219 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler.Studio.January2022.YCS_.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A painter and arts writer, Sharon Butler is widely known as the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocoatsofpaint.com\">Two Coats of Paint<\/a>, a project which includes an influential art blogazine about painting, an artists\u2019 residency, online conversations, a small press, and other initiatives. Her geometric abstractions, which explore the tension between digital and handmade, and are based on drawings that she makes in a phone app. Solo painting exhibitions in 2016, 2018, and 2021 at Theodore Gallery were written about in <em>Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, The James Kalm Report, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine<\/em>. In a review of her 2021 solo, artist-critic Laurie Fendrich called her work \u201cbeautiful and grittily compelling\u201d and suggested that \u201cthe future of abstraction will be owned by those who accept a post-compositional approach to their paintings. Right now, Sharon Butler has the best of both worlds<strong>.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong>She has received awards and residencies from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation, Connecticut Comission on the Arts, Connecticut State University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Pocket Utopia, and Counterproof Press.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon has served as a lecturer and\/or Visiting Artist\/Critic at many notable art programs and organizations, including Brown University, Cornell University, Vermont Studio Center, Penn State, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hoffberger School of Painting(MICA), School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Desgin. She currently teaches in the MFA programs at the New York Academy of Art and the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12220\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12220 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches.jpg?resize=640%2C738&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=888%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C886&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=1331%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=1775%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1775w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C803&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1232&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=364%2C420&amp;ssl=1 364w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Baselitz_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Butler, Baselitz (2021) oil on canvas, 52&#215;45 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12221\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Quarto.May10.2019_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches.jpg?resize=640%2C719&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Quarto.May10.2019_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=911%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 911w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Quarto.May10.2019_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=267%2C300&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Quarto.May10.2019_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C863&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Butler_Quarto.May10.2019_2021_oiloncanvas_52x45-inches-scaled.jpg?resize=1367%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1367w, 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\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Butler, Quarto, May 10, 2019 (2021) oil on canvas, 52 x 45 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12222\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12222\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=696%2C696&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=1068%2C1068&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?resize=420%2C420&amp;ssl=1 420w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SharonButler.nov192019.2020.oilcanvas.12x12inches.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Butler, Trade Painting&#8211; November 19, 2019 (2020) oil on canvas, 12 x12 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/sharonbutler.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listA painter and arts writer, Sharon Butler is widely known as the founder of Two Coats of Paint, a project which includes an influential art blogazine about painting, an artists\u2019 residency, online 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