SHARON L. BUTLER / Updated 2023
Founder and Publisher of Two Coats of Paint
Member of AICA (International Association or Art Critics)
Selected writing at Two Coats of Paint
"The enduring elasticity of painting," Two Coats of Paint, June 30, 2024.
"Leslie Smith III: Poignantly off-balance," Two Coats of Paint, October 2, 2023.
"Seductive non-objectives at Mother," Two Coats of Paint, July 12, 2023
"Peter Halley: On the cusp," Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2023
"Chris Dorland, historian for the future," Two Coats of Paint, February 25, 2023.
"Howard Smith: One brushstroke at a time," Two Coats of Paint, February 25, 2022.
"Michael Krebber: The poetry in painting?," Two Coats of Paint, January 13, 2022.
"Karin Davie’s new sense of self," Two Coats of Paint, .
"Jack Tworkov: Laying down line," Two Coats of Paint, .
Elsewhere
"James Bishop's Rich Austerity," contribution to a collection of essays on James Bishop, published by Transatlantique, edited by Molly Warnock, 2021.
"Mira Schor: The Disembodied Mind," art review, Doris Press, London. 2021.
"23 Chapters," The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, a collection of essays by 40 artists; Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press; edited by Sharon Louden. 2017.
"As It Happens: Tracking Down Chitra Ganesh," Gulf Coast, Houston, TX, edited by Raphael Rubinstein. Winter, 2015.
"The Casualist Tendency," Christie's Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2014.
"Sharon Butler," Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, Essays by 40 Working Artists, Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press, edited by Sharon Louden, October 2013.
“In Conversation: Louise Fishman with Sharon Butler,” The Brooklyn Rail. October 2012.
"Free Love," M/E/A/N/I/N/G, A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, November 2011.
"Abstract Painting: The New Casualists," The Brooklyn Rail June 2011.
"Pat Steir: The Nearly Endless Line," The Brooklyn Rail, January 2011.
Growing up Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright at the Guggenheim, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2009.
"Louise Fishman's Generation," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2009.
"Art in the Age of Obama," The American Prospect January/February 2009.
"Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood," The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2009.
"Abts' Traction," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2008.
"America's Lessness," The Brooklyn Rail, April 2008.
"Tracking Loren MacIver," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2008.
"The Super-sizing of American Art Museums," The American Prospect online, November, 2007.
Online Projects
Two Coats of Paint, founder, editor, writer. Two Coats is a blogazine that focuses on painting in NYC, 2007 (ongoing project). Two Coats of Paint on Instagram
Sharon Butler Notebooks, a monthly newsletter on Substack, 2023 (ongoing project)
Book projects
Morning in America, an artist's book of drawings, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2021.
Good Morning Drawings, an artist's book of drawings, published in conjunction with an exhibition at SEASON, Seattle, WA, 2017.
117 Grattan, an artist's book, published by Two Coats of Paint, in conjunction with an exhibition at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2012.
Sketchbook1(2007) and Sketchbook 2(2008-10), a two volume artist book of drawings and collages published in 2011.
Habitat, an artist’s book with text and images, published on the occasion of a show at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2010
The Tower Paintings: Keeping Our Distance, an artist’s book with text and images, published by Two Coats of Paint, 2009