ART ON PAPER 2025: GALLERIST JAMES YAROSH WILL PRESENT WORKS FROM 20TH-CENTURY HUMANIST EXPRESSIONIST SHEBA SHARROW | SEPT. 4-7 | PIER 36 | BOOTH B-17
James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery announces its participation in Art on Paper, hosted at Manhattan’s Pier 36 this September 4-7 during Armory Art Week. In continuation of his advocacy for the amplification of great women artists from history, curator James Yarosh will be presenting the works of 20th-century humanist expressionist Sheba Sharrow. This fall’s exhibit will mark the third Art on Paper presentation of Sheba Sharrow’s work since 2021. Last year, her art was shown alongside Miriam Beerman’s as part of Her Story: Revisiting Women Artists of the 20th Century.
ART ON PAPER 2025
“As long as the world is going the way it is going, I cannot stop doing what I have been doing,”
Sharrow told The New York Times in 2002. She lamented, “We cannot seem to get it right.”
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Meeting of the Heads of State, 1996, 72 x 102 inches, mixed media on Arches paper
SHEBA SHARROW 1926 – 2006
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA)
MFA, Tyler School of the Arts, Temple UniversitySharrow has been considered part of the Chicago School of imagist painters, fitting generationally into the “Monster Roster” group of artists from that city, including the most well-known of her classmates to lead the charge of image and ideas over pure abstraction, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero.Through the dominant milieu of Abstract Expressionism beginning in the 1950s, which actively rebelled against identifiable “meaning,” Sharrow remained grounded in a humanist tradition and a social context. She moved from lyrical abstracts in the 1970s toward her signature participation in artmaking as both purely intimate and as a catalyst for societal change. Curator and writer Alejandro Anreus placed her “in the company of Kollwitz, Beckmann and Orozco,” and, in Art in America, writer Amy Fine Collins linked “her sensibility to German Expressionism.”Sharrow’s work is in the permanent public collections of the Zimmerli Art Museum, Grand Valley State University, Millersville University and the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College, as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
Clumsy Dancer, 2002, 51 x 83 inches, acrylic on canvas
Love in the Time of Death, 1995, 60 x 52 inches, mixed media on Arches paper
is an interview series that explores our shared relationship with the medium of paper through conversations with galleries exhibiting at Art on Paper. Learn from this year's fair exhibitor, James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery, showcasing the works of Humanist Expressionists Sheba Sharrow and Miriam Beerman, as they discuss the role of paper in their dealer practices.
The art of Sheba Sharrow at James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery
Can you tell us about your gallery’s mission?
Located one hour outside of Manhattan in Holmdel, New Jersey, the James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery is committed to presenting greatness in the arts and facilitating conversations that promote a deeper understanding of the human experience. Finding missing conversations in the arts inspires my curatorial activism. I showcase the works of both new and established artists in a safe space designed to replicate the intimacy of an artist’s home.What excites you about paper-based art?
More than the medium, I am excited by the artist and what they are able to create. I look at two artists—Sheba Sharrow and Miriam Beerman, both museum-collected expressionist artists of the 20th century—as examples of the range of possibilities that can be captured by art on paper.
In Sharrow’s paper-based work, I am struck by a duality: the delicacy created within the medium and the power of her markings. Often inspired by the written word, her work is both sensitive and nuanced as she conveys a deep strength of conviction and tackles difficult subject matters in a way that reminds us that even in adversity, beauty persists.
Beerman on the other hand produced incredible collages using pieces of her own artwork and found objects as foils to one another. The end result is something deeply intellectual and entirely her own.
Any highlights you’d like to share about your program for Art on Paper 2025?
My presentation at Art on Paper will be a continuation of my advocacy for great women artists of the 20th century. In recent years, we have seen a great effort from curators around the world to revisit and amplify the stories of women artists throughout history, and I don’t think that the work is done.
The artists I am currently championing were responding to their times concurrent with the Abstract Expressionist movement, which they contributed to through a humanist lens. Both Sheba Sharrow (1926-2006) and Miriam Beerman (1923-2022), who were born in the 1920s and came of age during the war, chose to bear witness to the events of their lifetime through their artwork. I see both Sharrow and Beerman’s works as call to actions, serving as a reminder for us all that history repeats itself.
Ultimately, I see in both women a hunger for beauty and hope in spite of human cruelty and pain, encapsulating the healing power of art for the human spirit. I find great comfort in artists who can take on big subjects and create art that connects us all in ways words alone cannot. Living with art is transformative. Great artists can turn empathy into art with subjects of both joy and sorrow, which ultimately can fuel our souls.
The art of Miriam Beerman at James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery
JAMES YAROSH ASSOCIATES FINE ART AND INTERIOR DESIGN GALLERY SALON CONVERSATIONS – A VIDEO RECORDING
This video documents a recent evening of conversation as part of a gallery salon event with a special focus on three artists: Miriam Beerman, Robert Melee and Sheba Sharrow. Thank you to my fellow speakers, Heather Barone (Mentee and former assistant to artist Miriam Beerman), Robert Melee (Artist), Mayda Sharrow (Trustee of the estate of Sheba Sharrow and the artist's daughter),and client/art collector guests who joined us as we shared stories, ideas of gallery curation, backgrounds on the artists and insights on the artworks featured in our 2023 exhibit.
VIDEO RECORDING: FINE ART CONVERSATIONS/ FIVE ARTISTS | RECEPTION CONVERSATION LINK
James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery
The James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery, located one hour outside of Manhattan in Holmdel, New Jersey, was established in 1996 and remains loyal to representing fine art, curating gallery collections, and thoughtfully presenting art and interior design specifications through an artist’s vision and understanding. Yarosh has received national acclaim for presenting Russian fine art collections and recognizing significant art movements in their infancy. Yarosh advocates for what greatness looks like in the arts, showcasing at his destination gallery the works of both new and established museum-recognized artists of merit in a space designed to replicate the intimacy of an artist’s home.