Claire Sherman Artist

Claire Sherman (born 1981, Oberlin, Ohio) is an American painter currently living and working in New York City. Her work is in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, Kansas), the Margulies Collection (Miami), and other noteworthy public and private collections. She has had solo exhibitions in New York's DC Moore Gallery and DCKT Contemporary, Amsterdam's Galerie Hof & Huyser, London's Houldsworth Gallery, and Chicago's Kavi Gupta Gallery.Sherman's main body of work consists of landscapes painted with oil on canvas. Their subject matter, more specifically described as icy glaciers, ominous islands, rocky terrain, and foliage, is in line with philosophical discourse on the sublime. Sherman is influenced by the writings of Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-François Lyotard who discussed the sublime and the beauty of the natural world.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1981
Birth place
Ohio , Oberlin Ohio , United States
Nationality
United States

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Artist

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Peterborough New Hampshire
New York City
Terra Museum
France
MacDowell Colony
New York
Field of work
Drawing
Painting
training at
Chicago
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Fine Arts

Claire Sherman on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/art-design/18948/claire-sherman
  2. http://kavigupta.com/artist/clairesherman
  3. http://www.clairesherman.com
  4. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/artist/view/1673