Sharon Shero
Artist E-mail: sharon.shero@silentgimagery.com
Artist Phone Number: (214) 324-2750
Studio: silent G imagery
Web site: www.silentgimagery.com
Sharon's featured artwork is from photographic collage series "A Maid's Tale." Click here to read more about this series, her portfolio and process.
Artist’s Statement
The accidental and the long awaited.
When my work possesses an accidental, near-miss quality, it feels like the grazing of a transparent layer of time, its sheer weight conserved onto paper. And when an image fails to attend to normal expectations of time, it suggests that loopy sense of the long-awaited, déjà vu or the never was. When both of these qualities coexist in an image, I believe it is complete.
Perhaps it is in spite of growing up in the blue-color, south side neighborhoods of Chicago, I am drawn to subjects that are pastoral, intimate, hidden, and guileless. Although seemingly gentle topics, the crusty influence of the city is unfailingly with me, skewing my approach and the final outcome.
My work is neither planned nor geared to particular subjects; the serendipity is the only framework.
Getting close to my subjects is fundamental. Not so much in proximity, but how I am moved by
them, their surroundings, and how they in turn reciprocate.
Artist’s Biography
My past may appear a little checkered: originating in interior architecture, then meandering through graphic design, writing, and, ultimately culminating in photography. A clarity of design, imagery, word is distilled into the net result. During this period I worked for architectural and design studios for 8 years, and as a design and construction project manager for a national financial institution for 11. Eleven years ago, I opened my own creative studio.
Photography has always been an integral part of my business, but with the acquisition of a high quality, camera, I found my muse. Devoting as much time as possible to honing my design eye and photographic skills, it is my desire to forge a new path for my creative appetite.
My formal education consists of a Bachelors of Science Degree in Architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington together with a minor in Psychology from the University of Illinois. I feel that learning is a daily event, whether in a classroom, through research and reading, or simply from life experience.
Commissions, Exhibitions & Competitions
Exhibitions
- 2010 The MAC Sweet Sixteen Membership Exhibition
3120 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX, July 31 -August 28, 2010 - 2010 Irving Arts Center 10th Annual Art Connection Member’s Exhibition
3333 North MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX, July 11-August 2, 2010 - 2010 Two Times Two Times Ten (4-Photographer Group Show)
Times Ten Cellars, Dallas, TX, June 25 & 26, 6:00 pm - close - 2010 A Maid’s Tale and Jam[min’]balaya Portfolios
FWADA Spring Gallery Night
Times Ten Cellars, Fort Worth, 1100 Foch Street, Fort Worth, TX - 2009 The Italian Portfolio
Times Ten Cellars, Dallas, 6324 Prospect Avenue, Dallas, TX - 2009 Big Blend : Big Bend, The Big Bend Desert Series
Times Ten Cellars, Dallas, 6324 Prospect Avenue, Dallas, TX
Festivals
- 2010 White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, Dallas, TX, May 23
- 2010 LakewoodStock, Dallas, Tx, May 16
- 2010 CityArts Festival, Dallas, TX, May 7-9
- 2010 Artscape, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX
- 2010 Arts in the Square Festival, Frisco, TX
- 2009 Southern Artists Market, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX
- 2009 GrapeFest, Grapevine, TX
- 2009 White Rock East Garden & Artisans Tour, Dallas, TX
- 2009 Artscape, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX
- 2008 Italian Festival, Dallas, TX
- 2008 Artscape, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX
Individual Juried Competitions
Sharon Shero
- 2010 Creative Arts Center & Cedars Gallery
“Obsession,” Group show exhibiting May 21 through June 6 - 2010 The Garden Gallery, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX, juried group show
- 2009 The Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
The Southern Open 2009 group show - 2009 The Garden Gallery, Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, TX, juried group show
- 2009 Bath House Cultural Center, “HeArt and Soul,” juried group show
- 2008 New Orleans Photo Alliance, “Odd Works,” juried group show
- 2008 Visual Arts Coalition of Dallas, “September Morn,” juried group show
- 2006 Creative Arts Center of Dallas, juried group show