Artist Bio
Michael grew up in Nashville Tennessee, drawing at an early age and often in trouble for drawing in class. He received undergraduate degrees in Painting and Sculpture from Middle Tennessee State University where he studied with David LeDoux and James Gibson. He later received a scholarship to attend the University of Cincinnati and do Graduate work in Sculpture, where he received a Masters Degree. He received a Teaching Assistantship and later became an Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture there. Michael soon moved to Santa Fe New Mexico and began designing and building custom homes in the area while continuing with artistic pursuits. He built Mike Sharber & Associates as his business model for design work, construction, sculpture, and painting His large studio has full sculptural facilities as well as painting, drawing, and gallery areas. His work is found in both private and corporate collections.
Juan McCloud 2006
Artist Statement
I have a number of painting venues in process, one line pursues the marks and symbols of early languages, often investigating the Cascajal Text that was recently discovered in Mexico and became the oldest writing found in the Americas. Often in tandem with the language work is my interest in historical or ancient shelter forms, as a designer and builder of sculptural homes in Santa Fe for many years this interest is now just a natural part of me.
Another painting venue I call the Social Consciousness group, this is a platform where I can make comments about issues I may see on the news or read about. I have a number of characters I have created to help tell a narrative story. These characters were originally influenced by the historical carved masks of Central America.
My earlier work used fresco, (gypsum plaster), as a sculptural painting surface, either on paper or board, with incised lines and drawing, along with collage and sculptural surface elements . I have slowly evolved, for practical reasons of weight, toward a synthetic venetian plaster surface that is much thinner. This has allowed me to do a series of large paintings, 4’x4’, that are about the Cascajal Text used in what I feel is a landscape arrangement. I will still use the gypsum on smaller work as it does things that synthetics can not.
My sculpture is often an outreach from the paintings, using the characters and forms in a 3-D relationship, sometimes a story to tell, sometimes just for fun.
I often seek out the architecture of objects that exist, in a subtle way, just below the surface of normal reality. The exploration of everyday objects as living things imbued with an energy of their own holds a fascination for me. There is also a narrative theme and a historical connection between man and myth that interests me. I study the symbolic forms this relationship has produced, whereas the unknown is brought into a relation with the “known”.
Michael Sharber
Vitae
EDUCATION
1979 | Masters Degree in Sculpture, University of Cincinnati, OH |
1975 | B.F.A. in Painting and Sculpture, M.T.S.U., Murfreesboro, TN |
BUSINESS
1983 – 2022 | Sharber & Associates, Inc., Director, Designers & Builders of fine custom homes, Jupiter Fine Arts Gallery, Gypsy Plaza, Madrid |
AWARDS | HONORS | EXPERIENCE
2022 | Two paintings licensed for use in the Amazon movie “One Fast Move” |
2021 | Public Sculpture erected, Carbondale Public Library, CO |
2020 | Public Sculpture erected, Abiquiu Inn, Abiquiu NM |
2020 | Public Sculpture erected, Douglas County Library, Denver CO |
2019 | Public Sculpture erected, Abiquiu Inn, Abiquiu NM |
2017 | Sculpture Installation, Grand Junction CO |
2017 | Sculpture Installation, Alamosa CO |
2016 | Two public sculptures erected, Pace Center & City Hall, Parker CO |
2014 | Southside Library Sculpture installation, Santa Fe, NM |
2013 | Honorable Mention, Aqueous show, Tubac Center for the Arts, AZ |
2011 | Award of Excellence, Masterworks Show, Hispanic Art Center, NM |
1982 | Visiting Artist , Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas |
1978 – 1979 | Teaching Assistantship, Sculpture Dept., U.C., Cincinnati, OH |
1978 – 1979 | Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, OH |
1977 – 1978 | Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati, OH |
CORPORATE & MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY |
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN |
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH |
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH |
Cincinnati Bell Systems, Cincinnati, OH |
IBM, Cincinnati, OH |
Grace Chemical Co., OH |
Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN |
Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN |
Numerous Private Collections |
EXHIBITION RECORD
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 | McMahon Gallery, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO |
2009 | Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH |
2009 | Arte Bella, Santa Fe, NM |
1982 | Bethany College; Lindsborg, KS |
1980 | Studio San Giuseppe, College of Mount St. Joseph; Cincinnati, OH |
1980 | Cincinnati Commission on the Arts Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
1979 | M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition; Tangeman Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH |
1979 | Carnegie Art Center; Covington, KY |
EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Contemporary Abstract Exhibition, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City MO |
2022 | Plate Ink Paper Press, Off Ludlow Gallery, Cincinnati OH |
2022 | Brick by Brick, Community Gallery, Santa Fe NM |
2022 | The Best, Las Legunas Gallery, Laguna Beach CA |
2022 | Valentine, Gallerium, Canada |
2021 | 9th Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR |
2021 | No Justice, No Peace, Wise Gallery, Norfolk State University, Norfolk VA |
2021 | Spot-On #2, D’art Gallery, Denver CO |
2021 | Textures & Patterns, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
2021 | Purely Abstract 2021, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
2020 | Art In The Time Of Corona, SOS Art, Cincinnati OH |
2020 | 50 & Older Exhibition, Las Lagunas Gallery, CA |
2020 | Sylvia White Summer Show, Los Angeles, CA |
2020 | Estas Aqui, NM Arts, Santa Fe NM |
2020 | The Resilience Project, 516 Arts, Albuquerque NM |
2020 | Laguna Beach Open, Las Laguna’s Gallery, CA |
2019 | Passage, Women’s Caucus for Art, Denver CO |
2019 | Longer Table, Community Gallery, Santa Fe NM |
2019 | Under the Influences, La Sala, Galisteo, NM |
2018 | Beginnings, Kat Payge Art, Denver CO |
2018 | Exquisite Corpse, Community Gallery, Santa Fe NM |
2018 | All That You Can Imagine, Core New Art Space, Denver CO |
2017 | Contemporary Abstraction, Core New Art Space, Denver CO |
2016 | Breaking The Block, Community Gallery, Santa Fe NM |
2016 | Wish You Were Here, Community Gallery, Santa Fe NM |
2016 | Ordered Landscape, Adams State University, Alamosa CO |
2016 | In My Absence, UBE Art, Berkeley CA |
2016 | Arizona Aqueous XXX, Tupac Center for the Arts, AZ |
2016 | Abstraction: Diverted Reality, Jorgenson Gallery, Moberly College, MO |
2015 | Mixed Media, Core New Art Space, Denver CO |
2015 | Chautauqua National: Strategizing, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY |
2014 | Squared, Orange County Creatives, Laguna Beach, CA |
2013 | 6th Annual Summer Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura CA |
2013 | Map It, Riverside Arts Center Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan |
2013 | 2013 Collector’s Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura CA |
2013 | Chautauqua National Exhibition, “Crossroads”, Eastern Kentucky University |
2013 | 28th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler TX |
2013 | Aqueous XXVII, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac AZ |
2012 | After Dark 2012, Greg Moon Gallery, Taos, NM |
2012 | Route 66, Albuquerque’s Public Art/Urban Enhancement, 516 Arts, NM |
2012 | New Mexico Showcase, 516 Arts, Juried Exhibition, Albuquerque, NM |
2012 | Chautauqua National, Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky U., Richmond, KY |
2011 | Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy |
2011 | Tikkun Olam, Alta Contemporary Art, Tubac, AZ |
2011 | Summer Juried Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA |
2011 | Mining The Unconscious II, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, S.F., NM |
2011 | Northern National, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI |
2011 | 13 x 13 Group Exhibition, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2011 | Gateway To Imagination, Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM |
2011 | MasterWorks, Hispanic Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM |
2010 | Artists In Dreamland, Poudre River Arts Center, Fort Collins, CO |
2010 | David LeDoux Memorial Show, Todd Hall Gallery, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN |
2010 | Monkey Love Show, Jennie Cooley Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
2010 | Self Portrait Project, Art House/Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn NY |
2010 | America’s Paperworks, Northwest Art Center, Minot St. U., Minot ND |
2009 | Decembuary, Six by Six Gallery, New York, NY |
2009 | Canyon Road Artists, The Factory Gallery, Albuquerque, NM |
2009 | Scarey Show, Jennie Cooley Gallery, S.F., NM |
2009 | Vision Shift, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
2009 | Best Exposed Exhibition, Artworks, Cincinnati, OH |
2009 | Santa Fe Community Gallery, S.F., NM |
2009 | Santa Fe City Poster Show, S.F., NM |
2009 | Exposed Artworks Annual, Artworks, Cincinnati, OH |
2008 | Day of the Dead Show, Jeanie Cooley Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
2007 | Drawing the Figure, Johnson’s Gallery, Madrid, NM |
2009 | Collect: Inside 8 x 8, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
2003 | College of Santa Fe Sculpture Project; Santa Fe, NM |
Michael Sharber
157 Camino Los Abuelos, Santa Fe, NM 87508
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