Sharyn Finnegan is a professional artist living in New York, and has exhibited widely since her 20s. She works perceptually in oils or charcoal from the motif almost exclusively. Besides the posted landscapes and cityscapes, she has painted portraits, but mainly focused on a series of self-portraits over her lifetime which express her feminism.. She’s married with one adult child and also writes about art and curates exhibitions.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Sharyn Finnegan
Discipline:
Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979
Studios
Eastman
Sharyn Finnegan worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…