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About Sharon Killian
Sharon Killian lives on the edge of a hill on the White River just east of Fayetteville, Arkansas where sunsets are her muse. She was born in Jamaica, immigrated to Harlem, NY where she grew up, lived in DC and Northern Virginia before moving home to Fayetteville with her husband in 2005. Killian earned degrees in art history and in painting from the University of Rochester. She has taught Art Education at U Arkansas, Fayetteville and studio art in Washington, DC. Killian is president, NWA Black Heritage, a 501c3 cultural organization, and president of the Board, Art Ventures Gallery, also a 501c3 cultural and educational organization, and she is a cattle farmer. Killian’s work can be found in many private and corporate collections including Tyson Foods, the University of Arkansas, and Northwest Arkansas Community College. She has created collaborative Murals in Fayetteville and in Bentonville, Arkansas about the Black experience.
Black Series #2 belongs to an ongoing series of paintings created with acrylic on unprimed canvas. The Black body and psyche are described by deep ochres, reds, and browns. White geometric transparencies are overlaid across the canvas describing the intended effect of white supremacy on the Black psyche and the Black body. Thick white paint approaches, pushed by roller from left and right to ostensibly meet in the middle to consume or to be repelled.
About the art
Sharon Killian lives on the edge of a hill on the White River just east of Fayetteville, Arkansas where sunsets are her muse. She was born in Jamaica, immigrated to Harlem, NY where she grew up, lived in DC and Northern Virginia before moving home to Fayetteville with her husband in 2005. Killian earned degrees in art history and in painting from the University of Rochester. She has taught Art Education at U Arkansas, Fayetteville and studio art in Washington, DC. Killian is president, NWA Black Heritage, a 501c3 cultural organization, and president of the Board, Art Ventures Gallery, also a 501c3 cultural and educational organization, and she is a cattle farmer. Killian’s work can be found in many private and corporate collections including Tyson Foods, the University of Arkansas, and Northwest Arkansas Community College. She has created collaborative Murals in Fayetteville and in Bentonville, Arkansas about the Black experience.
Black Series #2 belongs to an ongoing series of paintings created with acrylic on unprimed canvas. The Black body and psyche are described by deep ochres, reds, and browns. White geometric transparencies are overlaid across the canvas describing the intended effect of white supremacy on the Black psyche and the Black body. Thick white paint approaches, pushed by roller from left and right to ostensibly meet in the middle to consume or to be repelled.