Clare Dunn

Clare Dunn has been living in the belt of the Ohio River as long as she can remember--her life has been a slow sojourn Northward. Growing up, she lived in Walton, Kentucky, and never truly settled on a primary school. At 11, she was accepted into an advanced high school, Covington Latin, which allowed her to graduate early, at the age of 15. At 16, she enrolled in Xavier University. Currently, she resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. She likes cats, secret codes, coffee, and conspiracy. Art-wise, she likes gestural linework, intuitive anatomy, evident labor-intensity, and brilliant color. She believes in the accessibility of art to the public, going so far as to encourage physical interaction between audience and her own work and allowing mass production and low-brow imagery to trickle into her more "fine" pieces.
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My work can be split into three categories--Fine Art, Illustration, and something in-between. There's a lot of blending between the two, but typically, my fine art work is most interested in depicting reality, and is typically constituted of a mixture of portraiture and figurative imagery.
My illustrative work is usually long-term imaginati...

May 2018--BFA in Printmaking and Drawing; Minors in Writing and Art History, Xavier University

June 2017--Summer Undergraduate Residency Program, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

August 2016--Sketchbook Workshop, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

July 2015--Rome Study Abroad Summer Session, John Felice Rome Center, Rome, Italy

March 2018--Solo Exhibition
The Internship Process Show and Comic Book Release
Xavier University Art Gallery,
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Feb 2018--Juried Group Exhibition
Swooned: a reflection on the work of Caledonia Curry
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

June 2017--Group Exhibition
Summer Undergraduate Residency Program Show, Wilkenson Hall
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

April 2017--Juried Group Exhibition
Voice: a Reflection on the work of Noel Anderson and Andrea Bowers,
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

September 2016--Group Exhibition
XHaus Final Friday Student Show
XHaus, Cincinnati, OH

February 2016--Group Exhibition, Xavier University Student Exhibition, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

April 2016--Juried Group Exhibiton
Summerfair Emerging Artists Exhibition
Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Clifton, OH

Dec 2015 --Juried Group Exhibition
Refraction: A Mark Mothersbaugh Retrospective,
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Nov 2015--Group Exhibition
Rome Experience Art Exhibition
Xavier University Art Gallery
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Sept 2015--Group Exhibition
Xavier University Art Society Opening Exhibition,
Xavier Unive...