About the Exhibit - Portraits 

In the Fall of 2019, during London’s Frieze Week, Almine Rech featured an exhibit of Claire Tabouret’s famous portraits. However, the difference between this show and her past exhibits was that these portraits were of individuals in her life instead of characters throughout history or random photographs. 

Some specific individuals to call out are the paintings of her brother, as well as Night Gallery’s founder, Davida Nemeroff and her child. 

“To paint someone is to care for them.” - Claire Tabouret

“Portraits, however, forgoes any unifying narrative, in order to further reveal the artist’s dedication to inspecting the nature of identity and intersubjective relationships. In capturing her friends and relatives, she ceases to work in large formats, preferring instead to treat these subjects on a more personal and intimate scale.” (source) 

“Tabouret’s Portraits, echo some of the core problems addressed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his life-long travail, such as the task of displaying “the native bond between myself perceiving someone and the someone whom I perceive” – this precious, unique, and irreplaceable relationship between myself and the other.” - (source) 

“Below built-up layers of acrylics and fabrics in shades of black and navy blue, the neon-colored foundations of her subjects’ bodies shine through, creating a halo like that of an eclipse. “Because the light comes from underneath,” she explains, “you cannot really turn it off.”” - Galerie Magazine (source) 

About the Artist 

Claire Tabouret is a French artist who lives and works in LA. 

“In her figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, Claire Tabouret scrutinizes identity and takes a closer look at childhood and its enigmas, the individual isolated or within a group.” - Almine Rech (source) 

She received her BFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 

She’s represented by the following galleries, Almine Rech and Night Gallery.