Claire Lieberman American (20th / 21st Century) untitled black oil stick on paper From the artist's website: Claire Lieberman is a sculptor and installation artist who combines such materials as marble, Jell-O and video. Her work explores a range of dichotomies, such as "the sublime and the quirky, desire and danger, indulgence and guilt." Lieberman is known also for her prints and sculptures of toy guns in glass. See Lieberman’s glass guns and photography in the new book, Loaded: Guns in Contemporary Art by Suzanne Ramjlak and Schiffer Publishing 2022. UDBO - Unidentified Dangerous Beautiful Objects is a hardbound book published with Massey Klein Gallery. Solo shows include such galleries as: Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College (catalog with essay by Nancy Princenthal, 2022), Massey Klein Gallery, NYC; Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale; Hot Wood Arts, Brooklyn; THE LAB, NYC; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta; PDX, Portland; Seoul Art Center, Korea; the University of Alaska, Anchorage; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Southeastern Louisiana University. Lieberman recently exhibited in line of sight. lethal vision, mudac museum, Lausanne, Switzerland which traveled as Im Visier, to Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland. Group shows include: Rules of the Game, Massey Klein Gallery, NYC; Mein lieber Schwan (My Dearest Swan), ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany; The Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum; Up in Arms, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY; New Prints at the International Print Center, NY; and PULSE New York with Marcia Wood Gallery. Her work has been written about in whitehot magazine (2022), Sculpture magazine, The New York Times, Artcritical, Esthetic Lens, Vasari 21, The Conversation Project, Art on Paper and ARTnews. A two-page image of her sculpture, Camouflage Jell-O, was included in Camouflage, a book published by the Imperial War Museum of London and Thames and Hudson. Claire Lieberman has received awards from MacDowell (2022), Escape to Create (2022), The Arctic Circle, Territory of Svalbard; National Endowment for the Arts; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France; Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria; and Yaddo. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (BFA) and Pratt Institute with distinction (MFA). 13 1/4"H x 11 1/2"W (sight), 20 1/2"H x 18"W (frame)