claire seidl

march 21 - april 19, 2026

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.