Sharon Horvath: Peaceable

From April 25 through May 26, The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present recent paintings on paper and canvas by New York artist Sharon Horvath. In this new work, Horvath is in full command of the distinctive fluid line with which she weaves rich visual narratives that explore interior and exterior, public and private spaces. Whether inspired by ancient beds, baseball fields, dunes by the sea, or the starry night sky, Horvath mines her palette of pure pigment and invented imagery to construct the theatrical compositions in her mind.

Horvath’s interest in ancient beds arose while she was living in Rome as a recipient of the Rome Prize in painting in 1996. Since then her study of the bed in history has led her from early Roman stone benches to four-poster Victorian versions to canopies. She sees the empty bed as a shaped, reversible environment: a refuge or a dazzling universe.

See below for full press release and selected works.