My name is Clare Judith Lubell.  Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, I now live in Aarhus, Denmark.  I'm attracted to chance occurrences, especially beauty that appears as an unintended consequence of some unrelated, intentional process.  My work incorporates layers of geometric shapes, colors, and patterns that interact in ways both planned and improvised.  

As an artist, my goal is to allow patterns and structures to emerge and evolve as I work, allowing room for uncertainty, rather than attempting to impose order and meaning.  Through my work I aim to find beauty in the seemingly chaotic, to illustrate the various tensions that exist in the relationship between structure and uncertainty, and to express my awe for the complex and subtle order of the natural world.

Residencies:

Kunstkollectivet 8B - artist in residence, Nykøbing Sjælland Danmark - April-May 2022

Textílsetur ÍslandsThe Icelandic Textile Center - textile art residency, Blönduós, Iceland - August 2017

Nytomta vävstuga - weaving studio residency, Arvika, Sweden - August 2016

Scholarships and Stipends:

Statens Kunstfond - funding provided to Driftskontoret for Lines & Planes exhibition - 2020

Aarhus Kommune Kulturudviklingspuljen - funding provided for Open Lines exhibition - 2019 

Selected Exhibitions:

2020

Lines & Planes

Driftskontoret, Viborg, Denmark

Exhibition and Site-specific installation with Astrid Skibsted

2019

Open Lines

Ovartaci Fields, Aarhus, Denmark

Exhibition with Astrid Skibsted and Michelle Yi Martin

2017

Handgerdir Minjagripir

Textílsetur Íslands, Blönduós, Iceland

Group exhibition with Caryn Aasnes, Deb K WIlliams, Helena Schlichting, Isabel Fuglsang, Marina Sach, and Rosa Smits

2016

Den Røde Tråden

Grünerløkka Bibliotek, Oslo, Norway

Modern, creative approaches to traditional textile crafts.  Group exhibition with Ida Hagen, Hilde Marie Hundsnes, and Linn Markstein

Fiber Fortellinger/Fiber Stories

Is It So Collective, Oslo, Norway

Group exhibition with Ida Hagen, Hilde Marie Hundsnes, and Linn Markstein

2014

The Fabric of Space: Geometry as Muse

a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group exhibition with Victoria Wagner, Gina Borg, Rachel Duvall, and Ali Swearingen

2013

Land & Sky

Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibition

 

Thinking Like the Universe

Hatch Gallery, Oakland, CA

Group exhibition curated by Aimee Friberg with Miguel Arzabe, Miya Ando, Fritz Chesnut, Randy Colosky, Bryan de Roo, Lauren Douglas, Alan Firestone, Llewelyn Fletcher, Treasure Frey, Sarah Jane Lapp, Terri Loewenthal, Rebecca Najdowski, Tahiti Pehrson, Jesse Schlesinger, Adam Sorensen, Andy Vogt and Lena Wolff

2012

Bright Courage

Flying Goat, Healdsburg, CA

Solo Exhibition

2011

All Together Now

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Group exhibition curated by Adrienne Miller with Laura Baisden, Kelly Bonadies, Will Bryant, Andrew Burkitt, Chris Cheney, Gregory Scott Cook, Ann Flowers, Tate Foley, Alyson Fox, Chad Kouri, Bryce McCloud, Michelle Ramin, Stacey Reason, Sonnenzimmer, Brad Vetter, Betsy Walton, Lindsey Warren, and Lulu Wolf

2010

Bound By A Common Geography

Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New work by Alison Kendall and Clare Judith Bowers

2009

Impromptu

Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group exhibition with Marie d'Abreo, Alison Kendall, Michele King, Aondrea Maynard and Tessa Merrie

 

Tangible Intangibles

Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group exhibition with Patter Hellstrom, Kevin Pincus, Charles Keatts and Atticus Wolrab

2008

Space for Everything

Wall of Sound, Seattle, WA

Solo Exhibition

 

Sweet’n’Low

Canteen Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Group exhibition with Lindsay Campbell, Guen Douglas, Duane Hosein, Jennilee Murray, Hsinping Pan, Pierre Richardson and Mel Stringer