Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with artist Claire Sherman, on view at the gallery's downtown location from September 19th through November 2nd, 2025. An artist reception will be held Friday, September 19th from 5 to 7pm. All are welcome to attend.
Claire Sherman creates works that focus on how our cognition distinguishes what is wholly abstract from what has been abstracted from our normal perception. In this investigation, Sherman has rightfully chosen the subject matter that has been at the crux of this discourse for centuries - the infinite attributes of nature, seen and unseen. Sherman’s paintings of exposed islands and chaotic forest interiors challenge us to encounter unpredictable, wild nature through the emphatic materiality of paint. Existing in tension with landscape archetypes, the paintings evoke specific places that could also be anything, anywhere.
Claire Sherman was born in Oberlin, Ohio. She 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 Kavi Gupta Gallery, 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 Assistant Professor at Drew University, and lives and works in New York City.
