Claire Sherwood

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Claire Sherwood received her M.F.A. from University of Maryland as a David C Driskell fellowship recipient in 2003. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States in venues such as the U.S. Smithsonian National Botanic Garden, the Corcoran Museum of Art, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Grounds for Sculpture, as well as many galleries, museums and colleges across the country. Sherwood has received numerous awards grants and residencies for her artwork; she currently resides in upstate New York where she teaches art at an independent progressive day school.

Using a wide array of non-traditional sculptural building supplies, Sherwood casts, carves, slathers and pushes her materials into a new state of being. Drawing inspiration not only from the biological and physical world around her, but from the embedded history of the different materials themselves, Sherwood's diverse and unique approach to art making has resulted in collections that are sculptures, wall hanging panels, photographs, and installations. Despite the complex variety of techniques employed in the studio, each body of work dovetails to the next through careful examination of surface textures, transformation of materials, and Sherwood’s examination of the domestic and industrial landscape in America.