Claire McConaughy’s works are a combination of elements that make poetic moments connected to the present and past. Her paintings are reactions to the process of painting and the history of landscape. Using a combination of painted passages and fluidly drawn lines her process allows for a variety of marks and layering of imagery with shapes giving way to lines and interlacing of imagery. The layers and use of color in her paintings create spatial tensions and surprising metaphors. These works continue in the lineage of landscape painting, and also come from McConaughy’s early experiences in rural mountain woods and life in New York City.

She earned her MFA in painting from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has exhibited at Red Fox Contemporary Art (2023),  Birdhouse Brooklyn (2023),  Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2022), and 490 Atlantic Gallery (2021). She received a Artist Residency Millay Arts, Ucross Foundation Residency, and Santa Fe Art Institute Artist’s Residency. Her work has been reviewed in artcritical, White Hot Magazine, Hamptons Art Hub and other publications. Claire McConaughy is a painter who lives and works in New York.

For over a decade McConaughy was on the staff of New Observations Magazine, a non-profit art journal. McConaughy is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Bergen Community College. Her experience as an educator includes adjunct teaching at the School of Visual Arts and Marymount Manhattan College.