Exhibition by Claire Zarouhee Nereim
May 2nd—31st, 2026
Opening: Saturday May 2nd, from 3-6pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays in May, from 2pm – 5pm.
In Flowers, apples, eggs, milk, recent work by Claire Zarouhee Nereim connects the feminization of botanical architectural ornament with the politics of care labor. Her fractal drawings, made with drafting tools, are inspired by garden design, diagrams of reproductive bodies and teaching toys for children. Their rhythmic geometries describe the repetitive, shifting, patterns of caregiving and foreground the unpredictable nature of reproduction.
Among these drawings sprout sculptures responding to existing architecture. Blue crescent-moon nightlights create a semi-floral frieze around the perimeter of the room; a series of peach pit chains echo lines of trim, and ceramic seed-sculptures line the massive fireplace. Through repetition, poetic logic, and open-ended systems points of flux in meaning-making processes are revealed.
Claire Zarouhee Nereim is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist. Primarily working in drawing, sculpture, and writing, Nereim foregrounds the materiality of language while exploring various relationships between architecture, botany, and feminized bodies. Nereim has exhibited across the United States and in Europe and has published artist’s projects in The Believer and X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. Born in Chicago, she received an MFA (2011) from California Institute of the Arts and a BA (2003) from Oberlin College.
