Ascend

Claire Sherman created eight paintings for the Sylvia H. Rambo U.S. Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The eight canvases are installed on floors 3 through 10, and can be viewed both individually as stand-alone landscapes and sequentially as a series. The compositions of the paintings on the lower floors are denser with foliage, while the paintings on the upper floors reveal progressively larger areas of open sky.

Sherman’s expressive brushstrokes both create these landscape scenes and dissolve them into physical patchworks of paint, depending on your viewing distance from each canvas.

The landscapes depicted in these paintings were inspired by the local plants and natural forms that are found in Harrisburg and the surrounding counties served by the federal courthouse.