DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present new paintings by CLAIRE SHERMAN

CLAIRE SHERMAN paintings address tragedy, romanticism and ambivalence through landscape. Philosophical writings on the sublime and existentialism influence her recent paintings depicting scenes of vast open spaces, cliffs, ravines, rapids and other ominous topography. The choice of landscape is deliberately idiosyncratic; the scenes can be anywhere or anything: tropical, arctic, lunar, or mundane. However, despite the hopeful curiosity this variety implies, emptiness pervades each environment. SHERMAN's approach is bold and painterly with large sweeping brushstrokes, from thin to overly thick areas of paint, as her images waver between abstraction and representation.

SHERMAN lives and works in Chicago. Her work is included in the Margulies Collection (Miami) and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland, KS). Recent solo exhibitions include Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago) and Hof & Huyser (Amsterdam). She was included in the group exhibition Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape at the Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) in 2008. SHERMAN has been selected as a recipient of The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program for 2009-10.

We are on summer hours for the show: Wednesday through Saturday, 11am – 5pm.

Please note that the gallery will be closed on July 3 & 4.