BACKGROUND

Claire Boren creates thickly layered, expressive work in which her paintings reveal a creative process that is boldly intuitive yet finely controlled. She begins her paintings in an explosive, spontaneous manner, later developing the work more deliberately. Using thick oil sticks directly on canvas or paper without the intermediary of tools, she will sometimes layer acrylic washes and then work in pen, pencil and other media. She works in a wide range of media and styles including mixed media paintings, collages, assembled boxes and sculptures, and monoprints.

Her most recent work delves more directly into abstract forms, with layered applications that both obscure and transform the underpainting, creating fields of tension. She has studied with artists including Isaac Sawyer and Richard Diamond in addition to training at The New School, Arts Student League and Art New England Workshops. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including Carter Burden in New York City and at the inaugural opening for the new Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education.

MEDIA:

Acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, collage, monoprint

EDUCATION:  

B.A. Queens College – New York, NY

M.S. Columbia University – New York, NY

The New School – New York, NY

Arts Student League – New York, NY

SELECT SHOWS:

2020 Carter Burden Gallery - New York, NY

2017 Hebrew Union College - New York, NY

2017 Temple Beth Miriam - Elberon, NJ

2017 Carter Burden Gallery - New York, NY

2016 Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe - Berlin, Germany

2016 Carter Burden Gallery - New York, NY

2016 Grant Ave Gallery – Deal Park, NJ

2015 Carter Burden Gallery – New York, NY

2013 Carter Burden Gallery – New York, NY

2012 Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education – Lincroft, NJ

2012 Oyster Point – Red Bank, NJ

2011 Gallery on Grant – West Deal, NJ

2010 Gallery on Grant – West Deal, NJ

2009 Gallery at Pier Village – Long Branch, NJ

2008 Apart Contemporary Gallery – Asbury Park, NJ

2008 Middletown Public Library – Middletown, NJ

2007 Mark Garrison – New York, NY

2007 Gallery on Grant – West Deal, NJ

2006 Unity Canvas: Artists’ Response to 9/11

2006 Apart Contemporary Gallery – Asbury Park, NJ

2005 Gallery on Grant – West Deal, NJ

2004 Apart Contemporary Gallery – Asbury Park, NJ

2004 Powys Gallery – Shrewsbury, NJ

2002-2005 Art Alliance Juried Show – Red Bank, NJ

2002-2005 Monmouth Museum Juried Show – Holmdel, NJ

1991 Art Alliance – Red Bank, NJ

1991 Ocean County Artists Guild – Ocean County, NJ

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