Sharon Booma - Abstract Artist

Biography

Educated at the College of New Rochelle, NY and the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts, Sharon Booma has been exhibiting her work since 1986. Her complex abstract paintings have been awarded top prizes in juried exhibits and have been seen in invitationals nationwide.

Her work is a vigorous pursuit of a balance between the states of chaos and order that alternate and overlap in our lives, between, as she says, “the tangible materials that surround us and the ungraspable spiritualism that defines us as individually unique people.” She searches for this equilibrium through use of a broad spectrum of color and a multiplicity of approaches, controlling and directing the movement of amorphous elements by the stricter structural boundaries imposed by both the canvas and the painted forms themselves.

She creates balance in each piece by a meticulous synchronization of a variety of superficially disharmonious elements: smooth, broad color fields, linear imagery, textured surfaces, oil and mixed media on panel or paper and deeply layered paint. According to Booma: “The very gesture of adding materials to the surface is very defining and a powerful movement. I feel various added elements keep the color shapes and movements in check.” The effect is that of a carefully realized harmony sustained with razor-sharp precision.

Invitations and Awards:

2007
Reviewed by Art News March 2007

Interview with Studio International August 2007
Published by Studio Trust NY, NY
Edited: Scotland, UK

2006
Reviewed in Art News, Summer 2006

2005
Published in "The Art of Color" 2005 by Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher
Reviewed in "Art in America" - City Focus: San Francisco 'Bubbling Over in Talent' September

2002
Published in “The Art of Seeing”, by Paul Zelanski and Mary Fisher, 5th Edition Prentice Hall
Dubuque Museum or Art, Invitational, Kearney, Nebraska

2001
Museum of Nebraska Art, Invitational, Kearney, Nebraska

1999
Marxhausen Gallery, Abstract Balance Invitational, Concordia University, Seward, NE

1995
John Slade Ely House Connecticut Invitational IV, Curator’s Choice, New Haven, Connecticut

1994
Silvermine Gallery, Art of the North East, Top painting Award, New Canaan, Connecticut
Slater Museum, Connecticut, Academy Show, Norwich, Connecticut

1993
John Slade Ely House, CT Women’s Artist Award, New Haven, Connecticut
Salt Box Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
Slater Museum, Connecticut, Academy Show, Norwich, Connecticut

1989
Essex Art Association Painting Award, Essex, Connecticut
The Connecticut Gallery, Four Women Show, Marlborough, Connecticut

1988
Essex Art Association painting Award, Essex, Connecticut

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