Sharon Korman, a New York native with studios in Manhattan and Connecticut, has been painting for the past twenty years. She began her career in watercolor under the tutelage of Lei Yu, the celebrated Chinese watercolorist, and continued her education for several years at the National Academy School of Fine Arts where she studied drawing and oil painting with prominent artists, including Gary Faigin, Jacob Collins, and Sam Adoquei.

Sharon’s medium is oil paints, which she uses to create representational paintings that are based in reality, but altered by imagination. The beguiling, creamy texture of oil paints, as well as the colors Sharon chooses, enhances the moody quality of her paintings. Her inspiration comes from travel, as well as from every day observations from Manhattan streets, the Connecticut countryside, or images from magazines and the news. Sharon’s aim is to take the familiar -- a couple sitting in a restaurant, a woman reclining after work, a night sky, an old barn -- and transform the scene to make it new and vibrant to the viewer, sparking a unique emotional response.

Sharon has had numerous one-woman shows in New York, Connecticut, and Bermuda, and her paintings are in private collections throughout the country. She has been an honoree at the National Academy School of Fine Arts Benefit, as well as an artist in residence at the Masterworks Foundation in Bermuda, where she taught classes and painted on site.

Praise for Sharon Korman

“Korman’s paintings are ominous and disarmingly fantastic with the faces of women emerging from or imprisoned in trees, young girls in a dense forest alone at night, a night sky in motion as clouds sail across the moon, and while they reverberate with echoes from fairy tales there is at the same time a sense of real observation of nature. In Korman’s hands, the contrasting worlds that she gives us in her paintings do not collide but ebb and flow and ultimately blend into what may be a parable about the place of human beings in the universe.”
Karen Wender, China 2000 Fine Art Gallery, on show “Substance and Shadow”

“Sharon Korman's rich imagination and sensitive psyche adds depth and mystery to her paintings. Her use of paint is as expressive as her subjects which are layered with intrinsic meanings that engage the viewer both visually and intellectually. Color and brushwork amplify her painterly and creative output.”
Annette Blaugrund, Director, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts