Paia Contemporary Gallery

Sharon Lindenfeld

Original Artwork

About The Artist
Sharon Lindenfeld’s awards include the Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize and the Fred. A Hillbruner Artists’ Book Fellowship Award. Her etching work has been featured in over 20 exhibitions throughout Chicago and the United States; including shows with the Southern Graphics Conference, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and the Hood Museum of Art [Hanover, NH].

Artist Statement
In my work, I push prints, particularly etchings, past their traditional limits by creating large scale, multi-panel abstract landscapes. They explore the construction of space, horizon and land—often times where the background and foreground integrate and spill over into each other. They examine the feelings of different spaces, including snowscapes, storms and the boundaries between earth and sky.

I love the process of printmaking: the ability to make new and exciting kinds of marks, the role of the accidental, and the surprise end result when peeling off wet paper from the press bed. I feel a partnership with the press; it pushes the image into something unexpected. I draw imagery from Japanese woodcuts, Chinese watercolors, and the Sublime to create evocative and expansive spaces. Like Caspar David Friedrich, I place figure-like lines, creatures, and marks in the landscape to set up a relationship with the viewer.

In the end, much of the imagery comes from the physical process of printmaking itself. I work my plates intensely, scratching, heating, pouring, blistering, spraying, wiping and burnishing to make painterly, graphic, and physical marks. My screen prints involve partially washed out screens and experimental and misregistered CMYK color separations.

Recent events and exhibitions
2011Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center  (Bloomington, IN) “Transitions of Life: A Multicultural Day of the Dead Exhibition”
2011 Liu Haisu Art Museum  (Shanghai, China) “American Youth Printmaking Exhibition”
2010 Low Road Gallery  (Greencastle, IN) “Second Annual Juried Show”
2010 SoFA Gallery  (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
2010 “IU School of Fine Art Student Shows” MFA: DART, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Photography
2009 Low Road Gallery  (Greencastle, IN)
2009 “Hand Made Prints: an exhibition of artist pulled multiples”, Southern Graphics Conference (Evanston, IL)
2008 Paia Contemporary Gallery (Paia, Maui, HI)
2008 Big Black and White Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative (Chicago, IL)
2007 Spudnik Press Print Bazaar, Spudnik Press (Chicago, IL)
2007 Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative (Chicago, IL)
2007 November/December Holiday Show, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio (White River Junction, VT)
2007 “A/V XPLO: Audio/Visual Explosion” Visual Art and Music Festival, Abbey Pub (Chicago, IL)
2007 “Open & Closed” Summer Group Show #1, Contemporary Art Workshop (Chicago, IL)
2007 “Business as Usual”, Book Arts Gallery (University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA)
2007 “Art Saves the World: artMITZVAH,” Mercury Caf� (Chicago, IL)
2007 “Undergraduate Exhibition,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2005 “MOMENTA” Juried Exhibition, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio (White River Junction, VT)
2005 “Senior Majors Exhibition,” Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Gallery (Dartmouth College, NH)
2005 “Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood’s Collections,” Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth College, NH)