Drawing and writing form the backbone of Sharon Butler’s painting practice. In 2007, fascinated by art, writing, and the possibility of new digital platforms, Sharon founded Two Coats of Paint, a blogazine that focuses primarily on painting in NYC. From 2016-20, she became intrigued with drawing on her phone, posting one digital drawing each day on Instagram. The visual language developed in these tiny digital images eventually became the basis for the paintings and drawings she continues to make today. Although the drawings are no longer posted on Instagram, a selection can be seen here.
Her solo exhibitions in New York at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Theodore Art, and Pocket Utopia have been written about in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, The James Kalm Report, Time Out New York, Tussle, and New York Magazine. She has received awards and residencies from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut State University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Pocket Utopia, and Counterproof Press at the University of Connecticut.
She lives in Queens, NY, and works in Brooklyn.
CV of Exhibitions and awards
CV of Writing and other projects
Image: In the studio at 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, December 2024. Photo credit: Adriane Quinlan, Curbed/New York Magazine