Error is a form of deviancy, a supposed inhospitable climate of wrong. The space between the concepts of wrong and right is often a zone of exile, a separate but adjoining space where mistake banishes each of us from previous convictions. Embracing this futile yet consuming human condition, Permission speaks through the language of furniture. The go between of architecture and its inhabitants, these works subtly highlight dislocation through their groundlessness. As each work essentially misses the mark, error and thus failure take on a contemplative inflection.
Claire Rau was born in Sandusky, Ohio. She completed her graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and presently teaches sculpture and foundations at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies, continuing to build upon an extensive exhibition record in the US and internationally. She is a founding member of The Front in New Orleans.
www.clairejanerau.com
www.nolafront.org
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Education
M.F.A. University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, Scholar for Tomorrow Fellow
B.A. in Studio Art, Univeristy of Maine
B.A. in Art History with Minor in Medieval Renaissance Studies, University of Maine
Selected Exhibitions
Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX
Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
The Front, New Orleans, LA
Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Ford Gallery, University of Eastern Michigan, Ypsilanti, MI
Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
Bemis Underground, Omaha, NE
Courses I Teach
Lower Division
• Beginning Studio 2D
• Beginning Studio 3D
Upper Division
• Introduction to Artists' Books |
