Sharon Worley can be contacted at: (281) 358-0856,
or through her web site: www.sharonworleypaintings.com
or by email:
I am a self taught artist. I studied studio art at Ohio State University and Columbus School of Art and Design. I have a Master's degree in Art History from Tufts University and I am completing a Ph.D. in Aesthetics at the University of Texas, Dallas. I am the former curator of the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester, MA. My paintings are naive and primitive interpretations of light and nature. I teach and exhibit in Houston, Texas at local colleges and galleries. Recent exhibitions include faculty shows at Wharton County Junior College October 2004; North Harris College December - January 2005; North Harris Performing Arts Center "Synergy" February 2005.
Here I sell my "Outsider Student Art" at rates consistent with the nation's rent. My art reveals the beauty of nature with a whimsical look at the economic dilemma facing students seeking to purchase a piece of earth with a piece of history. I believe that the gap between education and employment is far greater than it should be, and is largely due to artificial class barriers which are learned through history and media. If you look closely at my works you will see pencils and other school supplies, media which resemble crayon, chalk and animation, the constant allure of nature and socialization and the necessities one needs for self-support. Here the nation is represented as nature which must be cultivated by the enlivened intellect. Each new crop of students stimulates the economy through their buying muscle, or threatens of collapse of this sensitive ecosystem through prejudice and mismanagement represented by an erosion of the economic resources which supply training without a practical application or return on the investment. My paintings are original and offer the investor insurance against depreciation of assets if they are well tended.
Photography by Humble Camera (Gloucester images are lighter than they appear)
Exhibitions and Publications:| 07 / 2005 | Faculty Show | University of Houston Downtown | Houston, Texas | |
| 06 / 2005 | Group Show | Amsterdam Whitney Gallery | Chelsea, New York | |
| 06 / 2005 | EMPOWER Art Competition | George R. Brown Convention Center | Houston, Texas | |
| 02 / 2005 | "Synergy: Phat Exhibition" | North Harris College Performing Arts Center | Texas | |
| 12 / 2004 | "Faculty Show" Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture | North Harris Community College | Houston, TX | |
| "Fitz Hugh Lane and the Legacy of the Codfish Aristocracy, 1925-1971," Historical Journal of Massachusetts,Winter 2004 | ||||
| "Ethical Aesthetics and the Immutable Model in Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man and Dorothea Schlegel's Florentin", New German Review, vol. 17 2001-2002 | ||||
| "Mapping the Metaphysical Landscape of Cape Ann: The Reception of Ralph Waldo Emerson?s Transcendentalism Among the Gloucester Audiences of Rev. Amory Dwight Mayo and Fitz Hugh Lane", Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Summer 2001 | ||||
| Stuart Davis in Gloucester, Karen Wilkin et al 1999, co-author catalogue essay CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| Bernard Chaet: Cape Ann Landscapes 1998 catalogue essay CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| "Max Kuehne," American Art Review, vol IX, no.5, Sept-Oct 1997 | ||||
| Max Kuehne: Paintins Furniture Sculpture 1997, exhibition and catalogue essays CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| Folly Cove Designers 1996, exhibition and catalogue essays CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| "Making Waves: Twentieth-Century Fisheries on Cape Ann," Sea History, no.82, Fall 1997 | ||||
| Making Waves: 20th century Fisheries on Cape Ann 1995-96, exhibition, CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| Corbino on Cape Ann: The Rubens of New England 1995, exhibition and catalogue essays, CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEUM | ||||
| Stepping Out of the Frame: The People in the Portraits 1995, exhibition and catalogue essays, CAPE ANN HISTORICALMUSEUM | ||||
EMPLOYMENT
- 2005-present Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Adjunct Art History instructor - 2005-present Lee College, Baytown, TX
Adjunct Art History instructor - 2004-present San Jacinto Community College, Houston, TX
Adjunct Art History instructor - 2004-present Wharton County Junior College, Wharton, TX
Adjunct Art History/Literature instructor - 2003-04 University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
Adjunct Art History instructor - 2003-04 University of Houston, Main campus and Clear Lake, Houston, TX
Adjunct Art History instructor - 2002-present University of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX
Adjunct Art History (1301, 1302) and English composition (1301, 1302) - 2001-present North Harris Community College District, Harris County
Adjunct art history instructor
Distance Learning online instructor WebCT - 1999 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Adjunct art history instructor - 1993-2000 Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA
Curator; dbase; wp; insurance; grants - 1992 Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Research assistant Summer intern - 1992 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Research assistant intern exhibition to Japan:
"Monet and His Friends" - 1988-90 Tufts University, Medford, MA
teaching assistant
research assistant - 1987 Shawmut Bank, N.A., Mutual Funds Div., Boston, MA
shareholder correspondent (name: Murphy) - 1986 First Federal Savings Bank, Cleveland, OH
DDA clerk (name: Murphy)
EDUCATION
- Ph.d. candidate Arts & Humanities, Aesthetic Studies, ABD 2004
University of Texas at Dallas, American and European Art and Culture, 18th -20th centuries; Dissertation topic: "Liberty and Nationalism During the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era" - 2002 summer session Marburg University, Germany
Topics in Nationalism in East Central Europe - 1991 MA Art History, Tufts University, American and European Art, 18th-20th centuries
Thesis: "The Influence of Russian Apocalypticism on the Art and Theory of Kandinsky" - 1985 BS Bus Adm Finance major, (Art History concentration) Ohio State University