Whitney Claflin

Whitney Claflin’s paintings are imbued with the duration of their making and details of the artist’s lived experience. Her paintings comprise a swell of strategic marks plotted over time, testifying to memory and mood. Works are accessorized with objects or phrases that circulate through her daily life. The resulting practice toggles between an update of modernist schemas on canvas and a broader exercise in contemporaneity – relating a painting to the lifestyle and milieu that cultivate it.