Claire Sherman Exhibit in Amsterdam Gallery

Paintings by Claire Sherman, assistant professor of art at Knox College, are featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Hof & Huyser Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The exhibit, which opens February 28, is Sherman's second international show in the last three years. She will travel to Amsterdam for an artist's reception on February 28. The show is on display until March 28.

Sherman's work focuses on landscapes. "This exhibit explores a smaller, more intimate landscape," Sherman said. "I use natural objects as subjects, to examine ideas such as tragedy, romanticism and ambivalence."

Sherman is represented by the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, which describes her work as "ominous topography." She often depicts fragile states in the environment. One of the painting in the Amsterdam exhibit, "Sticks," shows what once was a branch on a tree, fallen and broken on the ground.

A member of the Knox faculty since 2006, Sherman earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania and a master of fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded several fellowships, including a 2008 residency at Aurobora Press, a fine art press, gallery and studio in San Francisco; and a 2007 residency at the MacDowell Colony, a prestigious art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Sherman has had solo exhibitions at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Aurobora Press, Houldsworth Gallery in London, and at Knox College. Among her many group shows are exhibits at Samson Projects in Boston; Galleria Glance in Turin, Italy; Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago; and the Neuberger Museum of Art in New York.

Sherman's paintings and drawings are held in collections worldwide, including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas, UBS Art Collection in London, Margulies Collection in Miami, Mercer Corporation in Chicago, Chautauqua Institution in New York, and University Hospitals in Cleveland. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, The Times of London and the Chicago Tribune.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 47 states and 48 countries. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Claire Sherman; below, "Sticks"