Reflections on the City
Sharon Florin

As a painter of the New York City urban landscape for over 40 years, Sharon Florin has been painting the architecture, street scenes, storefronts and people of her hometown with the hope of capturing what is here today that might be gone tomorrow. She has been dubbed an “urban documentarian.” In addition, many of the new construction projects in and around the city have found their way onto her canvases. Florin is intrigued with the reflections of the older buildings on the newer glass facades, the face of our ever changing city. She is pleased to share these New York urban landscape paintings with native New Yorkers who delight in recognizing specific places and scenes they know as well as with visitors new to the city.

About Sharon Florin
A native New Yorker born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, Sharon Florin has been painting the New York urban landscape for the past 40 years. Sharon received her BA in Fine Arts from Adelphi University and attended classes at the Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited her work professionally since 1980 in over 20 solo exhibitions and in numerous group shows. Her work can be found in many public and corporate collections including the Museum of the City of New York, The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, Burson-Marsteller Public Relations among others.  Her work has received awards from the National Association of Women Artists, The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The Butler Institute of American Art, and Allied Artists of America, among many others. Florin’s work has been reproduced on book covers and calendars and she has created many commissioned paintings of specific sites and buildings.

For further information about Sharon and her work, please visit her website at http://sharonflorinart.com/ and her blog at sjfnewyork.blogspot.com To make an appointment to see the show outside of posted hours, please email her at sjfstudio@aol.com

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.