Avy Claire has lived on and off in Maine since the early 1970s. In addition to exhibitions around the country, she has shown at the Portland Museum, Cove Street Arts and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art among others in Maine where a variety of expressions, including installations and video have been seen. Her paintings are rhythmic layers of mark making and color, a physical process mimicking the energy and dynamics found in nature. Claire explains, “My time in the studio is a process of reaching. I search through layers of gesture with a goal of landing somewhere I haven’t yet been. It is experimental and experiential.”