Claire Sherman
Trees and Night
Lot Closed
August 5, 06:48 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Claire Sherman
b.1981
Trees and Night
Oil on canvas
84 by 66 by 2 in.
213.36 by 167.64 by 5.08 cm.
Executed in 2016.
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Kindly donated by the artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago
Claire Sherman (b. 1981, Oberlin, OH, lives and works in Guttenberg, NJ)
“I hope to propel the viewer into a claustrophobic and unstable world through a perspective that shimmies between representation and abstraction.”
-Claire Sherman
Although one might recognize representations of fertile forests and foreboding caves in the work of Claire Sherman, her paintings are not “about” landscape per se. With her frenetic brushstrokes and masterful construction of synthetic luminescence on the canvas, the work aims to unearth the ways in which mark-making creates context within painting. As the artist describes, “images beckon entry and paint is used to seduce.” These paintings hinge on a seductive entropy that elicits an intimate, direct experience: one that exists within the specificity of the composition. Sherman aptly explains, “the paintings become their own locations.”
Sherman received her B.A. from The University of Pennsylvania and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has completed residencies at the Terra Foundation for American Art, the MacDowell Colony, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Yaddo, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program.
Recent exhibitions include solo shows at DC Moore, New York; PATRON, Chicago; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Aurobora, San Francisco; and Hof and Huyser Gallery, Amsterdam. Recent group exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Gallery Seomi, Seoul, The New Gallery, Austria; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. Sherman's work is included in numerous collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the UBS collections in London and the United States, and the Margulies Collection in Miami. Sherman is an Art Department Chair at Drew University.
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