Claire Sherwood
Claire Sherwood's work is rooted in the examination of complex relationship between the natural world and our human need to extract from it. Borrowing inspiration from the landscape, archeological studies, and her role as a Mother, Sherwood constructs an alternate reality by transforming refuse collected from her family’s recycling bin into curious objects referencing the natural world.
Sherwood comes to this work from a place of dis-ease; an unsettled feeling that she has migrated far from the ideal person she believed she once could be. Creating contrived artifacts from her Amazon packaging or synthetic foods (pre-parenting she’d never thought she’d purchase for her children), gives her a sense of justice, of righting her wrong doings and poor choices.
A feeling of overbearing or heaviness is implied by giving the structures the vague resemblance to something geological. Yet a sense of light heartedness or innocence is inserted by choosing pastel or vibrant child-like colors for her works palette.
Sherwood graduated as a David C. Driskell fellow from the University of Maryland and has shown extensively on the east coast. She lives and works in Upstate NY where she teaches art at a progressive day school located on 77 acres in the Hudson Valley.
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