Claire Sherman is an American painter currently living and working in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

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

Overland Park, Kansas

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 149,080 people, 59,703 households, and 39,702 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,627.0 people per square mile . There were 62,586 housing units at an average density of 1,102.9 per square mile...

), the Margulies Collection

Martin Margulies

Martin Margulies is a world renowned art collector and author. One of the most prominent contemporary art and photography collectors. Margulies' collection has an estimated worth of $800 Million dollars. Recently publishing a book called "Martin Margulies Art Collection"...

 (Miami), and other noteworthy public and private collections. She has had solo exhibitions in New York's DCKT Contemporary

DCKT Contemporary

Founded in 2002, by Dennis Christie and Ken Tyburski, DCKT Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in New York's Lower East Side. The gallery represents emerging and established contemporary artists. Its programming ranges from, but is not limited to, painting and sculpture to video art...

, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

's Galerie Hof & Huyser, London

London

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's Houldsworth Gallery, and Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

's Kavi Gupta Gallery.

Sherman's main body of work consists of landscapes painted with oil on canvas

Oil on Canvas

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. Their subject matter, more specifically described as icy glaciers

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, ominous islands

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

, rocky terrain

Rock (geology)

In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock. In general rocks are of three types, namely, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic...

, and foliage, is in line with philosophical discourse on the sublime

Sublime (philosophy)

In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic...

. Sherman is influenced by the writings of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke PC was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party....

, Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

, and Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...

 who discussed the sublime

Sublime (philosophy)

In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic...

 and the beauty of the natural world.

External links

• Claire Sherman's official website http://www.clairesherman.com
• Claire Sherman at Kavi Gupta Gallery http://kavigupta.com/artist/clairesherman
• Claire Sherman at DCKT Contemporary http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/artist/view/1673
• Claire Sherman in Time Out Chicago http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/art-design/18948/claire-sherman