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Russell Sharon
b. 1948


Russell Sharon was born in 1948 in Randall, Minnesota. He later studied at the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City from 1968-1972 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1973 to 1975. Sharon's paintings are most often horizontal works layered in two, three or four colors. They focus on the abstraction of natural landscapes, inspired by his iconic personal terrain, Minnesota's lake country: "I live on a farm, and my work is a reflection of that", says Sharon of his life-time home where he grew up. Due to the artist's blocky deconstruction of the composition, a constant fixation on the horizon is the viewer's only clue to the subject matter. "In the fine line between abstraction and representation lies the possibility of capturing the response one feels". He sometimes includes hazy figural elements in his compositions- barely indicating the outlines of a field of grasses or a clump of trees- but that's about it. He has done many portraits of people in the various places where he has lived and worked, like the series 101 Faces, one hundred paintings exhibited as a group to reflect the spirit of his community. His work also includes abstract sculptures with metal and wood, as well as some figurative sculpture made with a chainsaw. Since the mid 1980's, Sharon has had work shown and celebrated in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and South America. He shares his life between Minnesota and the South Beach section of Miami, where he has an apartment, as well as a studio in South Florida.


Exhibition History:

Russell Sharon
New Painting

Castoro/Sharon Sculpture
Ten
Major Works
Subjective
Carved Wood Sculpture Figures

Sculpture
Vintage East Village
40: The Anniversary Exhibition
Honoring Stonewall
Luis Frangella & Russell Sharon: A Life in Art

1985
1985
1987
1986
1986
1986
1988 
1988
2005
2016
2019
2022


Press:


March 13, 2024
Illuminations by the roadside: Russell Sharon’s watercolor ‘Wildflowers’
Document Journal

October 13, 2023Roots of the Dancing Debutantes: Artist Russell Sharon looks back
MPR News

November 2, 2023Celebrated in New York, a Minnesota artist returns to his roots by 'planting' trees upside down
The Minnesota Star Tribune

March 24, 2023Falling Together: The Life and Art of Russell Sharon
Mn Artists

April 2017Mark Bloch on “Exuberant 80s: An East Village Painters Circle” at Johannes Vogt Gallery
Whitehot Magazine

Now on view:

Lucio Pozzi
Cornucopia: the Bielefeld Watercolors


Through May 10, 2025
Upcoming:
May 22 - The Queer Show Part II
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@ Hal Bromm Gallery

September 19 - 50: The View From Tribeca
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
@  Hal Bromm Gallery