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Chicago’s Fine Arts Building Event

Writer: sharonkingston
sharonkingston
Jul 10, 2014
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Last month I shipped 5 paintings to Chicago! to be hung in the Fine Arts Building studio of Modern Classics Furniture   I’m hoping to make a trip this Fall for an opening, but in the meantime, the lovely Alison who manages the store is hosting an art event for the building’s Second Friday.

If you are in the Chicago area, I’d love for you to experience my paintings in person.

Details. Sharon Kingston New Paintings showing at Modern Classics Furniture Chicago FAB, 410 S Michigan Avenue, Suite 306 Second Friday event July 11th from 5 to 9 pm Gallery open Tues – Sat noon to 4

Here’s one of the paintings showing in Chicago–a bit of a departure from my moody palette, but inspired by Rilke.

from Uncollected Poems… I endlessly marvel at you, blissful ones—at your demeanor, the way you bear your vanishing adornment with timeless purpose. Ah, to understand how to bloom: then would the heart be carried beyond all milder dangers, to be consoled in the great one.

Learning to bloom, 36 x 36 inches, framed in maple floater frame, $1750

Sharon Kingston’s Learning to Bloom showing at Chicago’s Fine Arts Building, Studio 306

 
 
 

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studio/gallery

open by appointment only

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360-739-2474 or

email sharonkingston@me.com

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Source and technique have melded in my paintings in such a way that poetry, nature, color, light, mood and atmosphere are at one with my method of layering oil on canvas.  Void of visible brush stokes and seemingly lit from within, I have spent my career mastering my method and using the outer world as a shoreline to our inner longings.  My paintings, often paired with poetry that I am contemporaneously reading, offer an opening to the contemplation that accompanies those moments in nature where melancholic beauty quiets us.  Mimicry of an objective nature is less the goal than evoking the mood and atmospheres of our existence.  

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In my recent paintings the sea and sky have taken on a larger and more energetic role, giving me the space to explore a loose yet structured mark making—just as the sea and sky themselves are both chaos and order.  I find inspiration in scrims; the veil of fog, the glare of sunlight on water, the quieting as night approaches and everything is reduced to shadow and light, the revealing of a well of color at dawn and the heaviness and energy of a storm.

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I live in Bellingham and have a storefront studio in the downtown area.  I have been exhibiting my work professionally for the past 20 years.  My paintings are held in collections throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.

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I have exhibited my work extensively in galleries and curated shows since 2008. I currently show my work at my storefront studio only--by choice-- and have no gallery affiliation at this time.  

Make an appointment to view paintings by sending an email here.

SHARON KINGSTON STUDIO

203 PROSPECT ST

Bellingham WA  98225

studio gallery 
open by appointment​
please send me a text with the
day and time you'd like to come by.
360-739-2474

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