Claudia N N

Claudia N.N. was born and raised in Europe and has actively pursued painting as an art form since she was a young teenager.

Artist Statement:
The painting I sometimes call: InnerScapes. Movements from the inner planes surfacing and finding themselves in colour on white canvas of various sizes.
The process of painting is a visible making of something that becomes known to me first on the inside and nothing can be done to speed up or bring about this visible making. A certain receptivity is required ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, who considered the waiting to be an essential part of the creative process, describes this with the following words:
"All process, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.
To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of ones own intelligence, and with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artists life: in understanding as in creating.
There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing.
Being an a...

Group show @ MISHO Gallery - San Francisco- June 2012
Group show @ Lower Haters in March-April 2009 in SF

Solo Show: @ Swiss Consulate in downtown San Francisco, Oct - Dec 2008
Solo Show: @ Commonweal in Marin Co., Sep - Dec 2007
Solo Show: Oakland 2002, Curated by Slobodan Van Paich
Solo Show: Beverly Hills, 'A Votre Sante' , Summer 2002