Sharon Gordon was born in Upstate NY. She received a scholarship to study art painting and history in Italy and France. Sharon attended Skidmore College and Sage Albany, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Art. She maintains a studio in Central New York with her husband, James. The artist has enjoyed continuing success as a painter, and has had ongoing representation at major galleries throughout the East, as well as successful solo and group shows. Just recently, she participated in the Everson Museum of Art 2008 Biennial Exhibition. Her current work is intended to capture and take the viewer into a section of a larger landscape that may seem ambiguous but familiar. Her paintings provide an opportunity for the viewer to wander through passages exploring their own whereabouts, and recalling moments of time and space that they may have been visited before.
Sharon believes that the ability to examine components of a larger view and look beyond the surface is a key factor in her paintings as well as a very important part of understanding our place in a larger landscape. The smaller scale of some of her works allows the viewer an introspective and intimate setting to experience each piece of art, encouraging the viewer’s own interpretation and relationship with the space and the work before them. The view imposes a meter, a presence, a condition and balancing human scale as a piece of a larger perspective. She wants each individual to become as captivated by her art as she is with the painting process.
