Tuesday March 26 2013 at 6pm in Montague Hall 70
Sharon M. Louden graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art. Louden's work is held in major public and private collections including the Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Louden's animations continue to be screened and featured in many film festivals and museums all over the world. Her newest animation, Carrier, premiered in the East Wing Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in March, 2011 in a historical program of abstract animation since 1927.
link to her work
http://www.sharonlouden.com/work/
In addition, Sharon recently had a solo exhibition on view of a major installation work entitled Merge, which was made of over 250,000 units of aluminum at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN, and was on view from October, 2011 through May, 2012. Sharon was commissioned to make a site-specific work for the Weisman Art Museum that is in dialogue with Frank Gehry's new additions to the Museum.
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Upcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition of new work at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York in the fall, 2013. It has been five years since Sharon has had a solo exhibition in New York City, and the first time she will be showing new animation in a gallery in New York. Sharon will also premiere of a new animation at the National Gallery of Art in a program of Abstract Animation and Film since 1965 on September 8, 2013, which will also travel to different museum venues across the country.
In addition to working toward upcoming exhibitions, Sharon will be on-site at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut installing the last major iteration of "Merge." This will be a permanent piece as a part of UConn's impressive art collection that is throughout their campus. Installation is slated to begin in December and will conclude at the end of January, 2013.
Sharon has taught for 20 years since graduating from Yale in 1991. Her teaching experience includes studio and professional practice classes to students of all levels in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Colleges and universities at which she has lectured and taught include: Kansas City Art Institute, College of Saint Rose, Massachusetts College of Art and Maryland Institute College of Art. Sharon currently teaches at the National Academy of Art in New York City and most recently, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee this past spring.
In addition, she continues to conduct "Glow Town" workshops in schools and not-for-profit organizations across the country. Louden is also active on boards and committees of various not-for-profit art organizations and volunteers her time to artists to further their careers. She is currently editing a book entitled Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists.
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