Sharon Bourke
Central Islip, NY 11722
E-mail: shabou@optonline.net
www.sharonbourke.womanmade.net
www.sharonbourkewritings.net
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Little One Digital Original |
Knocking at My Heart Digital Original
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Spirit Shout Digital Original
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Blue Air Digital Original |
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Roots and Branches Acrylic |
Sea Turtle Acrylic
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Sharon works in a primarily abstract style, with occasional
elements of surrealism. Her work is influenced by Constructivist art, African
abstractions, and the products of animist religious beliefs.
She has studied drawing at the Art Institute of Boston; illustration, design and
computer graphics at Pratt Institute; etching at the Ruth Leaf Studio; and
collagraphs and etching with Otto Neals at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop.
She exhibits regularly in group shows, primarily on Long Island, New York,
including the African American Museum, the Islip Art Museum, the Graphic Eye
Gallery (invitational), Guild Hall and Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton. Other New
York venues include galleries in Ossining and Mount Kisco, Westchester; the
Meisner Gallery in Soho. She has also exhibited at the Alder Gallery in Eugene,
Oregon, and online briefly at artnet.com.
A writer as well as a visual artist, Sharon has published poems in various
literary magazines and three anthologies
(Understanding the New Black Poetry, Celebrations,
and
Children of Promise), and
non-fiction in the annual journal Collages & Bricolages.
Sharon is a member of the Long Island Black Artists Association, East End Arts
Council, Center for Book Arts and Woman Made Gallery.