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WHAT:
Exhibit — “Humanism
and Enigma: The Art of Honoré Sharrer”
WHEN:
Sat., April 1 – Sun., Aug.
20
WHERE:
University of Virginia Art Museum
155 Rugby Road
ALSO:
WHO:
Guest curator Suzanne Foley
WHAT:
Gallery Talk, with a reception
to follow
WHEN:
Sat., April 1, 5
p.m.
WHERE:
U.Va. Art Museum
Additional Resources:
• U.Va.
Art Museum
•Contact:
Jane Ford
(434) 924-4298
jford@virginia.edu
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March 21, 2006 — Over the past six decades Honoré Sharrer
has created an extraordinary body of work. With meticulous
draftsmanship, a bright color palette and surrealist imagery,
her paintings and drawings present myth and allegory as
everyday events, engaging unlikely people and objects in
witty juxtapositions. She depicts in detail the qualities
that distinguish one individual from another in equally
recognizable scenarios. “The works are engaging and
quite beautiful,” said Suzanne Foley, recently retired
curator of collections and exhibitions at the museum.
“Sharrer
gives a lot for the viewer to enjoy and interpret.”
Sharrer exhibited nationally and was critically recognized
in the 1950s and 1960s. Her work was sought by private
and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. But with the popular
tides of abstract expressionism, with proponents Jackson
Pollack, Franz Kline and others; the minimalism of Sol
LeWitt or Donald Judd; and the Pop Art of Andy Warhol sweeping
the American art world of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s as
mainly masculine undertakings, women artists — particularly
those like Sharrer, who rejected abstraction for heightened
realism — were often pushed aside.
Among the works in the exhibition is a new museum acquisition, “A
Dream of Monticello,” purchased with funds provided
by the Robert Cross Bequest.
An illustrated catalogue, with essays by James Longenbach — poet,
literary critic and professor of English at the University
of Rochester (N.Y.) — and Foley accompanies the exhibition.
A former long-time resident of Rochester, Sharrer and her
husband have lived in Charlottesville since 1994.
The exhibit is made possible by the Arts Enhancement Fund,
Spanierman Gallery, Art$ Dollars, generous lenders and
private contributions.
The museum is open to the public free of charge Tuesday
through Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about the exhibition and the U.Va.
Art Museum, call (434) 924-3592 or visit the museum Web
site.
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