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Sharon Butler is an artist, writer, blogger and associate professor of visual arts at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her articles, primarily about art and culture, appear regularly in The Brooklyn Rail and The American Prospect. A member of the national Culture Pundits network of art bloggers, Butler maintains the popular art blog Two Coats of Paint, which is a daily digest of reviews, commentary, and other writing about painting and related topics. Her painting, digital, installation and video projects are included in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Tampa, Philadelphia, Providence, London and Kyoto. She has received many awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Butler lives with her husband and daughter in Mystic, Connecticut, and New York City.

Selected Articles:
Sharon Butler, Art in the Age of Obama The American Prospect, January 2009.

Sharon Butler, Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood," The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2009.

Sharon Butler, Tracking Loren MacIver, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2008.

Sharon Butler, The Super-sizing of American Art Museums, The American Prospect Online, November, 2007.

Reviews and Essays About Butler's Projects
Regina Hackett, Blog Rolls, No Jelly on The Side, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 2007.

Amy Goetzman, 40 Bloggers Over 40, ReZoom, November 2007.

Charlie Finch, Not-So-Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Artnet, October 2007.

Elizabeth Schultz, "Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture," A Companion to Melville, ed. Wyn Kelley (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 2007).

“The Seafaring Metaphor,” Marion M. Callis, edited by Jonathan Stevenson, essay for ‘Moby Dick, Used’ at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford MA, 2005.

“Pure Pigment Fiction: The Paintings of Sharon Butler,” Dion Kliner, essay, Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, Florida, 1998.

“The Real, the Imagined and the Imagining in the Work of Sharon Butler,” Dominique Nahas, catalogue essay, Central Fine Arts, New York, 1997.

“Words & Images from the Artists,” essay, Ben Shahn Galleries at Wm. Patterson University, 1997.