Photo by Jacquelynn Buck
Claire is currently the Visiting Artist Assistant Professor of Jewelry & Metalsmithing at the University of Oregon. She earned an MFA from The State University of New York at New Paltz in 2021.
Her current research explores unexpected material manipulations and juxtapositions to examine the relationships between human inquiry, wonder, and our most fundamental needs and desires.
Tapping into a deep shared imagination littered with the elemental phenomena, shapes, and substances that have permeated our visual and tactile experience of the world for millennia, Claire’s work often utilizes or references stone, shell, wood, and earth, and contrasts order with randomness in enigmatic ways that activate our curiosity
Through her investigations, concrete reference and pure reverie are synthesized, exaggerated, undermined, elevated, or reinterpreted into evocative forms that create poetic and transporting moments.
Claire’s work has been featured in several exhibitions during New York City Jewelry Week and Munich Jewelry Week, and she has shown work nationally and internationally with a number of institutions including Cluster London, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Brooklyn Metal Works, Melton Gallery, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
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