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SHARI URQUHART Obituary

URQUHART--Shari, 1940-2020. Innovative feminist artist who traded in her paint brushes for wool, silk, angora fibers. Exhibited throughout the USA; e.g. "Bad" Painting Show" and "Bad Girls" at The New Museum; Richmond Art Museum; Kansas City Art Institute; Monique Knowlton Gallery, Allan Frumkin Gallery and Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, NYC; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Public Collections: e.g. Milwaukee Art Institute; Lannan Foundation.

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Published by New York Times on Dec. 6, 2020.

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Ann Zmudzinski Greenberg Rak

August 26, 2023

Shari was a visiting artist when I was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I remember walking into her studio where she was working on a floor to ceiling painting that featured the top of a grand piano.

It was in that time period (something like 1973-'74) that she painted "Better Dead than Red" and so many other breathtaking works later exhibited at the Memorial Union.

Besides the very interesting and comedic, "All in the Family-like" content of these pieces, there was an ability to capture translucency and to give the images airiness and light that so captured my attention; for example, one showed the view through a huge picture window covered in condensation with words someone had written with a finger on the glass.

Shari helped me prepare a photo portfolio along with Sheryl Budnik for which I will always be grateful.

I think we were all students of Professor Richard Reese at various times which helped to make our acquaintance.

Those were the days!

Laura Anne

April 15, 2021

I loved her -- I met her at St Francis Residence. She was so down to earth. She even shared the story of her middle name which began with the letter M! I learned a lot from her, not only about art, but about life!!!! So long Shari, my mentor!!!!

Julia Gillespie

December 17, 2020

Shari was loved by the tenants at St. Francis Residence in NYC. Her art program produced some great drawings and paintings of true outsider art. She helped start the St.Francis Residences, a model of community which became known world wide for providing a permanent home, with supportive services, for homeless people with chronic mental illness.

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