Selected Work

Flowers, apples, eggs, milk
Art in the Park LA
May 2-31, 2026
(The Fork in the Salad)

Cabbage Flower Variation II, 2020
ink drawing on paper
30 x 22 in

Flowers, apples, eggs, milk

Heartbeats (detail) , 2026
peach pits, stainless steel
dimensions variable

Flowers, apples, eggs, milk

Google signs of baby dropping, 2024
ink drawing on paper
24 x 28 in

Dust in the door, 2023
ink drawing on paper
24 x 28 in

Flowers, apples, eggs, milk

Whisper variation, 2020/2022
ink drawing on paper
24 x 28 in

Cascade variation, 2017
ink drawing on paper
30 x 22 in

Moon tulips (detail), 2026
modified nightlights, plug protectors
3.5 x 3 x 3 in

Fontanel, 2026
upholstery foam, ceramic
7 x 137 x 8 in

Fontanel (detail)

Cradle variation I, 2019
ink drawing on paper
24 x 28 in

Dust in the door
Safemart SF
December 2025-January 2026
(The Fork in the Salad)

Things that go away variation I, 2023
ink drawing on paper
20 x 20 in

Things that go away variation II, 2024
ink drawing on paper
20 x 20 in

Dust in the door

Dust in the door

Marine basket star recto I, 2024
ink drawing on paper
20 x 20 in

Marine basket star verso I, 2024
ink drawing on paper
20 x 20 in

Dust in the door

Heartbeats (with blocks), 2025
peach pits, stainless steel, concrete
each 120 x 4.5 x 4.5 in

Screening of Riddles of the Sphinx at Leroy’s
April 27, 2024

Collaborative riso takeaway made with artist Patricia Fernández Carcedo, designed by Giovanni Guttierez and
Nelly Le, edition of 100, 17 x 11.5 in

Patricia Fernández and I hosted a screening of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) at Leroy's, followed by a conversation about motherhood in a patriarchy, for which we made this risograph takeaway.

Rabbit, 2023
ceramic, 6.5 x 8.5 x 4 in

Egg dish double, 2021
ceramic, 9 x 10 x 12 in

Glyph drafts, 2021
ink drawing on watercolor paper
largest approx 10 x 10 in

KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory
June 3 & 4, 2017

Garden for a Swan, 2017
letterpress edition of 100, 24 x 18 in

Sub Rosa at LOUDHAILER
March - April 2016

Soft combs, 2016
brass, silver, 10 x 4 in (left),
20 x 4.5 in (right)

Soft combs (detail)

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

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.

TIC TOC, 2016
risograph book
8.5 x 7 in closed
28 pages
published by Golden Spike Press

TIC TOC 2, 2016
screenprint edition
19 x 19 in
with Golden Spike Press