Claire Sherman (born 1981,

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) is an American painter currently living and working in

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. Her work is in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art ( Overland Park, Kansas), the Margulies Collection (

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), 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

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'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 ice glaciers, ominous islands, rocky terrain and foliage, is in line with philosophical discourse on the

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. Sherman is influenced by the writings of

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, and Jean-François Lyotard who discussed the sublime and the beauty of the natural world.

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1981 births Living people Painters from Ohio People from Oberlin, Ohio School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni 21st-century American women painters 21st-century American painters {{US-painter-1980s-stub