Drawing and writing form the backbone of Sharon Butler’s painting practice. In 2007, fascinated by art, writing, and the possibility of new digital platforms, Sharon founded Two Coats of Paint, a blogazine that focuses primarily on painting in NYC. From 2016-20, she became intrigued with drawing on her phone, posting one digital drawing each day on Instagram. The visual language developed in these tiny digital images eventually became the basis for the paintings and drawings she continues to make today. Although the drawings are no longer posted on Instagram, a selection can be seen here. Her solo exhibitions in New York at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Theodore Art, and Pocket Utopia have been written about in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, Time Out New York, Tussle, and New York Magazine. She has received awards and residencies from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut State University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Pocket Utopia, and Counterproof Press at the University of Connecticut. In 2024 she had solo shows at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at the University of Alabama and Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Connecticut.