BIOGRAPHY
Claire Browne draws vast clusters of symbiotic circles and marks, drawings on canvas, paper, and wood. Working from intuition and an innate desire to explore the unknown, Browne creates work suggesting macro and microcosms – fragments of strokes expanding or contracting between intersections of art and nature, not unlike creating with household string. Her vocabulary consists of about ten motifs that she incorporates into each drawing, creating either a network or disconnect between the forms.
A graduate of Claremont Graduate University, Browne has had solo exhibitions at Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, Andrewshire Gallery, Los Angeles, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, Ca, Loyola Law School Gallery, Los Angeles, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Davis and Kline Gallery in Ashland, and Riverside Art Museum. She has been included in the Pacific coast edition of New American Paintings, and has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Artscene, Artweek, among others.
Browne has also been an adjunct instructor at UCLA, Santa Monica College, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, CA, and Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
She has recently relocated to Portland, Oregon
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