Claire Seidl

Claire Seidl

Artist Statement:

In my paintings, I focus on the visual but mine is also a personal response to paint that includes emotion and feeling. Each painting is resolved according to its own exigencies and my job is to look hard and long enough to see them. I seek new ways to mesh surface and space convincingly and always look for new pictorial resolutions. My relationship to painting is not settled, but dynamic and evolving. I use drawing and mark-making freely and intuitively and begin most paintings by drawing directly on the canvas and this continues throughout the process. Previous states and underlying incidents in layers of paint are often veiled, like distant recollections or like things seen briefly and now largely forgotten. There is darkness in my paintings, and light; speed and stillness; strength and softness. There is color with its attendant associations, and the expression of something uniquely human.

Artist Biography:

Claire Seidl grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City after receiving her BFA in Painting from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She later received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College and taught in the art department there for a decade. Seidl went on to study photography at the International Center for Photography and taught in Hofstra University’s art department for five years. She lives and works in New York City and in Rangeley, Maine.

Seidl has had over forty solo shows and participated in over 100 group shows in museums, universities, art centers, and galleries, both in the US and overseas. Most recently, her work has been shown at Helm Gallery in New York and at Moss Galleries in Portland, Maine. Her work has been widely reviewed and is included in numerous museum, university, corporate, and private collections.

AAA:

Member since: 2014
Assistant Secretary: 2019-2023
Committees: Nominating & Membership
Previous Committees:
Executive Committee 2019-2023 Exhibitions Committee 2015-2024 Exhibitions Committee Chair 2019-2023
Special Projects: Co-director: AAA Digital Monoprints 2019