Sharon had relocated to Mexico in 2010. Before then she had visited Guatemala and was inspired by the Mayan figure sculpture that she had seen there and then saw again in Mexico, and in their museums. Those abstracted indigenous human figures depicted emotions and were usually made of ceramic or stone. The year 2013 she began painting portraits and soon realized they had been inspired by the Mayan sculptures she had seen. Even though her works were quite different from the sculptures, they still had an indigenous feel to them, depicted emotions and had questioning expressions. She gave all of them large black blank eyes. The eyes appeared to go very deep into the skull. She believed it was like looking into the Soul of the indigenous people. She gave these paintings names of Mayan Gods.
Sharon had relocated to Mexico in 2010. Before then she had visited Guatemala and was inspired by the Mayan figure sculpture that she had seen there and then saw again in Mexico, and in their museums. Those abstracted indigenous human figures depicted emotions and were usually made of ceramic or stone. The year 2013 she began painting portraits and soon realized they had been inspired by the Mayan sculptures she had seen. Even though her works were quite different from the sculptures, they still had an indigenous feel to them, depicted emotions and had questioning expressions. She gave all of them large black blank eyes. The eyes appeared to go very deep into the skull. She believed it was like looking into the Soul of the indigenous people. She gave these paintings names of Mayan Gods.
Sharon had relocated to Mexico in 2010. Before then she had visited Guatemala and was inspired by the Mayan figure sculpture that she had seen there and then saw again in Mexico, and in their museums. Those abstracted indigenous human figures depicted emotions and were usually made of ceramic or stone. The year 2013 she began painting portraits and soon realized they had been inspired by the Mayan sculptures she had seen. Even though her works were quite different from the sculptures, they still had an indigenous feel to them, depicted emotions and had questioning expressions. She gave all of them large black blank eyes. The eyes appeared to go very deep into the skull. She believed it was like looking into the Soul of the indigenous people. She gave these paintings names of Mayan Gods.
Sharon had relocated to Mexico in 2010. Before then she had visited Guatemala and was inspired by the Mayan figure sculpture that she had seen there and then saw again in Mexico, and in their museums. Those abstracted indigenous human figures depicted emotions and were usually made of ceramic or stone. The year 2013 she began painting portraits and soon realized they had been inspired by the Mayan sculptures she had seen. Even though her works were quite different from the sculptures, they still had an indigenous feel to them, depicted emotions and had questioning expressions. She gave all of them large black blank eyes. The eyes appeared to go very deep into the skull. She believed it was like looking into the Soul of the indigenous people. She gave these paintings names of Mayan Gods.
neo expressionist artist
Sharon van den Berg
Sharon van.den.berg was born in Indiana, United States. Her career began when she studied art at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana and where she obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in art education. A few years later, and while working on her Master’s Degree, she studied experimental fabric design. Upon graduation she was awarded a solo exhibition of her large scale hand dyed fabric paintings that were painted in a minimalist style with muted and bold colors. They were exhibited environmentally in the sculpture court of the gallery. Some of them measured as large as three meters wide and six meters tall. These works were later exhibited in two museum shows and nine gallery shows throughout the Central United States.
The year 1987 she studied fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York City, New York. She spent the next eleven years as co-owner of a fashion company. She designed the fashions and developed a method of mass producing free flowing designs on silk fabrics. They were sold to department stores and boutiques throughout the United States and Canada. One of her more notable clients was Walt Disney Corporation where she hand dyed and painted the fabric for the costumes of the top four entertainers including the Lion King of the Wild Kingdom Theme Park in Orlando, Florida. 1991 through 1995 she did post graduate study with the artist Louise Freshman Brown at the University of North Florida. Also, she has studied with the artist Ernesto de la Pina Folch in San Miguel de Allende. Currently, she maintains a studio in San Miguel where she creates daily.
March, 2017 she had a solo exhibition at the Commenda de Pre in Genoa, Italy. August, 2017, she had another solo exhibition at the Gerardo Ruiz Gallery in San Miguel. The paintings in these shows and her recent works are painted in an abstract figurative yet emotional style. She still enjoys working on a large scale. Many of her works can be seen @neuekunstbrucke on Facebook.
