Claire Sherman : Tannic Waters
September 10, 2026 – October 31, 2026
Patron Gallery, 1612 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
PATRON is proud to announce Tannic Waters, our second solo exhibition with Claire Sherman. Over the past two decades, Sherman’s conceptual approach to landscape painting has drawn upon researching, extensive hiking and photographing, and the development of a painterly language that shifts in and out of representation. Her emotive, intimate renderings of the natural world, of places filtered through her own psyche, shift from traditions of land ‘captured’ to an examination of nature as artifice that informs societal and personal narratives. In 2023, Sherman began what would be a multi-year project revisiting the writings of American writer William Faulkner, whose rich literary descriptions of both real and fictional locations constructed a vibrantly nuanced depiction of the American South in the mid-20th century. Alluding to the mired political landscape of the 2020s, as well as the artist’s own navigation of personal grief, Sherman’s work abstracts the trees, underbrush, and foliage observed in her voyage through waters of uncertainty, resisting a clear path forward.