Although Sharon Stone traveled extensively as a model in the 1970s – and later as one of the world’s biggest movie stars – she now travels for a completely different reason: to display her artwork in galleries around the world.
“I feel like the only thing my paintings bring is a certain sense of joy,” she said Travel + Leisure over Zoom recently.
And it’s not just a hobby she picked up. The Pennsylvania native grew up studying painting with her aunt and continued her career at Pennsylvania Western University in Edinboro before leaving for New York City to begin her modeling career. In 2016, she returned to university to complete her art and art history degree, but it was during the COVID lockdown that she had time to dedicate herself to her pursuit.
And now, the Oscar nominee currently has two new exhibitions – one in Berlin, at Galerie Deschler Berlin, until June 22, and another in San Francisco, at Gallery 181, at San Francisco’s 181 Residences, until August 31. Gallery 33 in Los Angeles and followed with a solo exhibition at C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Stone’s portfolio now includes meditative landscapes and colorful abstractions and she considers Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró and Claude Monet sources of great inspiration. His work is full of emotion and draws on everything from his travels to places like Jerusalem, France and Africa, his thoughts on climate change and how he deals with personal challenges such as the 2001 stroke. , which, according to her, changed the way she perceives colors.
The San Francisco exhibition titled “My Eternal Failure” at the iconic Gallery 181 features a series of 18 never-before-shown paintings and is an ode to the six years he lived there, although he tells us he has complicated feelings about the city, but shares them It has been therapeutic.
“It took me a year and a half to paint the paintings, face reality, confront myself completely and completely, put them on canvas and have the courage to throw them on the walls,” she said. that people feel comfortable in the space with the paintings, that they are happy in the space with the paintings, and stay, stay and stay. And now this is the greatest joy, and I came home feeling healed.
Her show in Berlin titled “Sharon Stone: Totem” also holds a special place in her heart, as it marks the European debut of her art and a return to a city she has enjoyed since her modeling days.
“I really wanted to show in Berlin,” she told T+L. “When I was a young model and lived in Paris, I worked in Germany all the time. I always had to go back to Paris and I wanted to spend the night in Germany,” she said.
As for more European destinations, not just for shows but also for finding more creative inspiration, Stone has a lingering fascination with Spain.
“I have this obsessive feeling that I should go there,” she said, also noting that she has an equal affinity for France. His 8-foot-wide painting titled “Giverny” was inspired by a visit to Monet’s gardens.
In addition to her art, Stone told T+L that she would be open to returning to modeling.
“I have the idea that I will take over where Carmen [Dell’Orefice] stopped,” she said. She was the oldest model and I want to carry on like she did.
But in the meantime, there’s always Bora Bora, one of her favorite places in the world to travel.
“It really looks like the photos you see in travel magazines,” she said. “And then you go there and think, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life.’”
