Building on her 2019 exhibition at the gallery, which was inspired by Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, The Sixth Extinction, here, Sherman continues to examine the new state of our environment caused by globalism and increases in worldwide trade and travel. Due to human intervention, invasive species and plants have been forced into a new coexistence, creating what is said to be a new supercontinent.

The title of the exhibition is drawn from the Latin word intuor, meaning to look, to consider or to stare. The dense, tangled, and undulating forms of spaces and plants in the paintings address some of the complicated new environments that the human species is creating. Without reference to specific locations, Sherman’s paintings are simultaneously straightforward, concise, and analytic in their representation of a single piece of ground. The intensity and scale of these paintings causes close examination on the part of the viewer. In a moment that has forced many of us to be distant from each other, the proximity of the familiar environment depicted in these paintings is deliberate.

Claire Sherman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and in Amsterdam, Leipzig, London, Seoul, and Turin. She has completed residencies at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Yaddo, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Sherman earned her BA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005.

A catalogue with the essay, "An Ambiguous Truth," by Barry Schwabsky accompanies the exhibition.