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Claire Seidl (born 1951) is an American artist known for her abstract oil paintings, works on paper and black-and-white photography. Critics place her within a lineage of gestural abstraction that extends from early modernism through abstract expressionism to contemporary artists that reintroduced allusions to nature into work that remained non-representational. Seidl's paintings are described as contemplative, searching and wide-ranging in terms of their mark-making, color palettes, surfaces and density, each of which she regulates to produce variations in mood, emotion, light and space. Her photographs are characterized as mysterious, moody and visually challenging due to her method of shooting film at night with low light and long exposures. Critic Karen Wilkin wrote of them, "Her images are so elusive that we question our perceptions, while we enjoy the subtle orchestration of tones and soft-edged shapes … Something similar obtains in Seidl’s paintings despite their abstractness: a sense of immanence, of the ungraspable, presented in assured, declarative terms."