Paintings
Sharon Brant, Black in the Studio, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 23 x 39 inches / 58.5 x 99 cm, #SB165
Sharon Brant, Yellow in the Studio, 2023, Acrylic and alkyd on linen, 12 x 12 inches / 30.5 x 30.5 cm, #SB166
Sharon Brant, Pink in the Studio #2, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 60 x 48 inches / 152.5 x 122 cm, #SB168
Sharon Brant, Orange in the Studio #4, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm, #SB169
Sharon Brant, Blue in the Studio #2, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm, #SB171
Sharon Brant, Orange in the Studio #2, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 15 x 15 inches / 38 x 38 cm, #SB172 - ON HOLD
Sharon Brant, Naples Yellow in the Studio #2, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 36 x 48 inches / 91.5 x 122 cm, #SB174
Sharon Brant, Red in the Studio, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 8 x 8 inches / 20.3 x 20.3 cm, #SB175
Sharon Brant, White and Black I, 2017, Alkyd and acrylic on linen, 8 x 16 inches, #SB150
Sharon Brant, Green in the Studio #4, 2023, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm, #SB176
Sharon Brant, Green Gray, Black, 2017, Acrylic on linen, 6 x 12 inches, #SB151
Sharon Brant, Blue in the Studio #1, 2022, Acrylic and alkyd on canvas, 16 x 20 inches / 40.5 x 51 cm, #SB177
Sharon Brant, Cream, Black, 2017, Acrylic on linen, 6 x 12 inches, #SB152
Sharon Brant, #90-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 18 x 72 inches, #SB133
Sharon Brant, #94-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 18 x 72 inches, #SB132
Sharon Brant, #95-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 10 x 36 inches, #SB128
Sharon Brant, #92-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, #SB131
Sharon Brant, #91-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, #SB129
Sharon Brant, #93-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and alkyd on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, #SB130
Sharon Brant, #81-2015, 2015, Alkyd and oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches, #SB110
Sharon Brant, #79-2015, 2015, Alkyd and oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches, #SB108
Sharon Brant, #80-2015, 2015, Alkyd and oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches, #SB109
Sharon Brant, #73-2015, 2015, Alkyd and oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, #SB106
Sharon Brant, #78-2015, 2015, Alkyd and oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, #SB107
Sharon Brant, #50-2014, 2014, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, #SB68
Sharon Brant, #49-2014, 2014, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, #SB67
Sharon Brant, #48-2014, 2014, Acrylic, oil, alkyd and oil pastel on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, #SB66
Sharon Brant, #40-2013, 2013, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas, 12 x 24 inches, #SB65
Sharon Brant, #32-2013, 2013, Acrylic, oil and alkyd on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, #SB62
Sharon Brant, #26-2012, 2012, Oil and alkyd on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, #SB19
Sharon Brant, #28-2012, 2012, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, #SB57
Sharon Brant, #29-2012, 2012, Oil, alkyd, and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, #SB17
Sharon Brant, #30-2012, 2012, Oil, alkyd and Cumberland Derwent crayon on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, #SB60
Sharon Brant, #25-2012, 2012, Oil on canvas, 12 x 16 inches, #SB16
Sharon Brant, #31-2012, 2012, Oil on linen, 12 x 24 inches, #SB61
Sharon Brant, #3-2011, 2011, Acrylic on linen, 18 x 24 inches, #SB13
Sharon Brant, #4-2011, 2011, Acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 24 inches, #SB14
Sharon Brant, Untitled, 2008, Acrylic and colored pencil on raw canvas, 16 x 20 inches, #SB31
Sharon Brant, Untitled, 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches, #SB33
Sharon Brant, White Painting #6, 2008, Oil on canvas under green handmade stained glass in wooden frame, 4.75 x 4.75 x 2.5 inches, #SB58
Works on Paper
Sharon Brant, 4-23-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and pencil on paper, 11.25 x 30 inches, #SB137
Sharon Brant, 4-10-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and pencil on paper, 11.25 x 30 inches, #SB136
Sharon Brant, 4-9-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Oil stick and pencil on paper, 11.25 x 30 inches, #SB135
Sharon Brant, 3-6-2016 An Uncertain Geometry, 2016, Colored pencil and pencil on paper, 11.25 x 30 inches, #SB134
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-29-2015 #2, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB127
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-23-2015 #1, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB124
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-23-2015 #2, 2015, Pastel and pencil on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB125
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-23-2015 #3, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB126
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-15-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB123
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-10-2015 #1, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB121
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-10-2015 #2, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB122
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-6-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB120
Sharon Brant, Drawing 7-19-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB119
Sharon Brant, Drawing 7-16-2015 #1, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB117
Sharon Brant, Drawing 7-3-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB113
Sharon Brant, Drawing 7-1-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB112
Sharon Brant, Drawing 6-20-2015 #2, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB115
Sharon Brant, Drawing 6-20-2015 #3, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB116
Sharon Brant, Drawing 6-13-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 15 x 17 inches, #SB114
Sharon Brant, Drawing 6-4-2015, 2015, Oil stick on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB111
Sharon Brant, Drawing 5-24-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper. 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB77
Sharon Brant, Drawing 5-23-2014 #2, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches, #SB78
Sharon Brant, Drawing 5-23-2014 #1, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches, #SB79
Sharon Brant, Drawing 3-21-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches, #SB76
Sharon Brant, Drawing 3-16-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches, #SB75
Sharon Brant, Drawing 3-1-2014 #1, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22 inches, #SB74
Sharon Brant, Drawing 2-17-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB80
Sharon Brant, Drawing 2-13-2014 #2, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB73
Sharon Brant, Drawing 2-2-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB102
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-30-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB101
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-26-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB99
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-22-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB100
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-20-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB98
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-17-2014 #6, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB72
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-17-2014 #5, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB69
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-17-2014 #4, 2014, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB71
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-14-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB89
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-14-2014 #2, 2014, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB90
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-12-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB95
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-11-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB93
Sharon Brant, Drawing 1-5-2014, 2014, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB92
Sharon Brant, Drawing 12-31-2013 #3, 2013, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB91
Sharon Brant, Drawing 12-30-2013, 2013, Pastel on paper, 12 x 18 inches, #SB94
Sharon Brant, Drawing 12-19-2013, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 17 x 22.5 inches, #SB97
Sharon Brant, Drawing 12-18-2013 #1, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 17 x 22.5 inches, #SB96
Sharon Brant, Drawing 12-18-2013 #2, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 17 x 22.5 inches, #SB88
Sharon Brant, Drawing 11-10-2013 #5, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB86
Sharon Brant, Drawing 11-10-2013 #3, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB87
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-28-2013 #2, 2013, Pastel on paper, 22.5 x 30 inches, #SB104
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-18-2013 #2, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB84
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-18-2013 #1, 2013, Pastel on paper, collage, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB85
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-12-2013, 2013, Pastel on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB81
Sharon Brant, Drawing 4-23-2012, 2012, Crayon and gesso on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB38
Sharon Brant, Drawing 4-26-2012 #2, 2012, Ink on newsprint mounted on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB50
Sharon Brant, Drawing 4-28-2012 #1, 2012, Crayon on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB40
Sharon Brant, Drawing 4-30-2012, 2012, Crayon on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB41
Sharon Brant, Drawing 5-6-2012 #3, 2012, Crayon on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB39
Sharon Brant, Drawing 6-8-2012, 2012, Pastel on paper, 22.5 x 30 inches, #SB53
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-3-2012, 2012, Oil stick on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB51
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-4-2012, 2012, Oil stick on paper on watercolor paper, 22.5 x 30 inches, #SB52
Sharon Brant, Drawing 8-6-2012 #1, 2012, Oil stick on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, #SB49
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-28-2012 #1, 2012, Oil pastel on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB42
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-28-2012 #2, 2012, Oil pastel on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB43
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-29-2012, 2012, Crayon on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB44
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-30-2012, 2012, China marker on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB45
Sharon Brant, Drawing 10-31-2012 #2, 2012, Pastel on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB47
Sharon Brant, Drawing 11-3-2012 #3, 2012, Pastel on paper, 11 x 15 inches, #SB48
Sharon Brant, Untitled (2.27.2009), 2009, Ink and pencil on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB02
Sharon Brant, Untitled (7.25.2009 #1), 2009, Colored pencil, graphite, acrylic, and newsprint on paper, .21 x 28 inches, #SB06
Sharon Brant, Untitled (7.25.2009 #2), 2009, Colored pencil, acrylic, and newsprint on paper, 21 x 28 inches, #SB10
Sharon Brant, Untitled (7.25.2009 #3), 2009, Ink, colored pencil, acrylic, and newsprint on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB09
Sharon Brant, Untitled (7.25.2009 #4), 2009, Acrylic, pencil, and newsprint on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB05
Sharon Brant, Untitled (8.20.2009), 2009, Colored pencil, acrylic, and newsprint on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB08
Sharon Brant, Untitled (8.21.2009), 2009, Ink, colored pencil, acrylic, and newsprint on paper. 22 x 30 inches, #SB07
Sharon Brant, Untitled (9.13.2009 #1), 2009, Ink, colored pencil, acrylic on kraft paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB11
Sharon Brant, Untitled (9.13.2009 #2), 2009, Ink, colored pencil, acrylic on kraft paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB12
Sharon Brant, Untitled (10.2.2008), 2008, Acrylic, pencil, and newsprint on paper, 21 x 28 inches, #SB04
Sharon Brant, Untitled, 2008, Ink and colored pencil on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB01
Sharon Brant, Untitled, 2008, Pastel, graphite, and paper on paper, 22 x 30 inches, #SB03
Biography
Sharon Brant has exhibited her work internationally for the past five decades, including in Europe, Australasia, Mexico, and the United States. She has mounted two well-received solo exhibitions here at the gallery — "Plenty" in 2018 and "Sideswiped" in 2012. She was also included in our recent group exhibitions Brant / Brennan / Zinsser in 2016, and MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales at the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca Alcalá in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2012. Brant has exhibited her work at museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Rochester Museum, Everson Museum of Art, and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, among many others.
Brant studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri from 1962-1965 and moved permanently to New York City in 1966. Her work was included several years later in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Painting Annual in 1972. She exhibited regularly with OK Harris (solo exhibitions 1970, 1972), A.I.R. Gallery (solo exhibitions 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996), and Elizabeth Moore Fine Art (solo exhibitions 2007, 2011).
In 1968, Brant was one of eight founding members, along with Arthur Hughes, Gary Smith, and Robert Resnick, of MUSEUM, A Project of Living Artists, an artist-run exhibition and meeting space located at 729 Broadway in New York City. MUSEUM was intended as a politically-progressive community center for artists with the goal of supporting “a more alive connection between art and society, without the dissipation of force and quality occurring so frequently in the current art establishment.” MUSEUM’s membership grew to more than 300 individuals before it closed in 1971.
Brant was a member of A.I.R. Gallery from 1989-1996, the first artist-run gallery for women in the United States founded in 1972. She has been a member of American Abstract Artists since 2004. In 2012, Brant was awarded a grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ARTnews, Art International, Arts Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times, among many other publications.
Statement
I want to mystify myself. I want to look at my own drawing or painting and say, what is that, and feel mystified by it. I ask myself as I paint, what is a painting. Optically and psychologically it evokes a feeling as I view it. There may appear an implied illusionism of space, but it is the emotional space I want to enter, a pause from the world. This kind of space does exist.
Gallery Exhibitions
Sharon Brant: Change and Recurrence, January 6 - March 23, 2024
Twenty, June 24 - September 30, 2023
Untitled (Summer), July 19 - August 24, 2019
Subvert City, November 3 - December 22, 2018
Sharon Brant: Plenty, March 3 – April 28, 2018
Brant / Brennan / Zinsser, June 4 – July 2, 2016
Sharon Brant: Sideswiped, November 2 – December 22, 2012
Minus Space, curated by Phong Bui, MoMA PS1, NYC, October 19, 2008 – May 4, 2009
Escape from New York, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney, Australia, August 3 – September 2, 2007
Videos
Sharon Brant’s Online Artist Talk (YouTube), Thursday, January 25, 7-8pm EST
Sharon Brant at MINUS SPACE 2024 (YouTube), by Art Talks, February 2024