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Telephones, Anne Guro Larsmon and Claire Nereim at Sixth Street Viaduct, March 29, 2015

Claire Nereim at Jancar Jones, September 13-October 18, 2014

Jancar Jones, June 2-July 21 2012

Thesis works, Calarts, 2011

Earlier works

Julie Cloutier, Claire Nereim at Jancar Jones Gallery, 2010

Garden for a Swan, 2017, letterpress edition of 100, on the occasion of KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory, June 3 & 4, 2017

Soft comb, detail

Soft combs, 2016, brass, silver

The Arbor, artist's project, X-TRA Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Volume 18, No 3, March 15-June 15, 2016

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A Key to The Arbor

In this issue, Claire Nereim presents The Arbor (2015), the beginnings of an astral garden. Inside the front cover, readers will find the artist's interpretive map of the Los Angeles sky on the evening of March 15 (the first day of distribution for this issue). The inside back cover charts the night sky on June 15 (the last day the issue will be available on newstands). On each of those nights, follow the maps to find, with guidance from the Pole Star and Cassioppeia in the celestial North, two new constellations, each revealing a plant in the sky.

Since 2008, Nereim has been making star maps to examine the relationship of the terrestrial sphere to celestial space. One night, when the artist was looking skyward to locate a known constellation, she found another group glimmering instead. A game of observation began––the artist recorded an identical group, then a whole series of twin patterns emerged in the sky––amidst, between, and borrowing from the canon of astronomy's figures. After these observational maps, Nereim started making research-based seasonal maps, akin to the maps comprising The Arbor.