Whitney Claflin
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Whitney Claflin was born 1983 in Providence, RI and lives and works in New York, NY.
2009 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2005 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004 Yale Norfolk School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
Selected solo and two person exhibitions
2022 Stabler Horizon, with Rochelle Feinstein, curated by Fabrice Stroun, Drei, Cologne, Germany
2020 ADD SHOT, Derosia, New York, NY
2020 By All Means You Can Have Two Halloweens, Drei, Cologne, Germany
2017 Just Disco, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
ARTISTIC METHOD
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.