When you look at Sharon Bartel Clements' exuberant paintings you can hear the drums beating. "My work is modern tribalism, a celebration as primitive and expressive as any native ceremony", says the artist who paints with her fingers and hands.

Sharon achieves extraordinary effects by directly etching the rhythm of color onto a surface and manipulates different gradations of color to create the illusion of objects and reference to metaphysical movement. Her extensive world travels have imbued her work with a global perspective and infusion of different cultures.

Among the artist's numerous one person and group exhibitions worldwide including those in St. Petersburg, Russia; Beijing, China; and New Delhi, India. Selected exhibitions throughout the U.S. include the Russian Cultural Center at the Embassy of Russia in Washington, D.C.; Poughkeepsie Art Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA; and Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA. In New York, NY she has shown at Franklin 54 Gallery, N.A.W.A. Fifth Avenue Gallery, and Get Real Art Gallery, among others.

Her work is in numerous private and public collections including The James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Saatchi & Saatchi, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus Corporate Headquarters, Morgan StateUniversity, and Team Toyota Corp.

She earned her BS and Masters degrees from State University College at Buffalo, New York. She studied art at the renowned Art Students League of New York. The artist has been an Instructor for Painting at State University College of Buffalo, NY and she co-curated an exhibition at The Morris A. Mechanic Theater, in Baltimore, MD.

Articles about her and her work have appeared in The New York Sun, Manhattan Arts International magazine, Home News Tribune, The Washington Post, Yachts International, and The Tribeca Trib.

Praise for Sharon Bartel Clements

"The paintings of Sharon Bartel-Clements gracefully transcend painted reality thereby establishing an intricate connection between color, concept and emotion. The work of Mark Rothko resonates in Bartel Clements' work." -- Jill Conner, New York art critic whose articles have appeared in Contemporary, Sculpture, and New York Arts

"Sharon Bartel Clements' vibrant abstractions that are like Ernest Ludwig Kirchner gone cubist are the star of the inaugural exhibition." The Washington Post

"Climbing Mt. Fiji, Japan inspired Clements' abstract mixed media works. The works are luminous in their fresh spring colors."
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Sharon Bartel Clements' style is gestural, highly colored and immediate. She prefers the emotional directness of hand on canvas to the cooler indirection of the brush. The paintings are fiercely energetic, intense, bursting with a storm of color and movement that make the canvases seem too small to contain the forces within them."
The Tribeca Trib

"Her intense painting process produces outstanding work such as 'Rites of Passage', which received an Artists Showcase Awards from Manhattan Arts International in New York. … Exuberant, colorful abstractions that stand out."
The Washington Post