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Chloe Wise

Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. Foregrounding an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making. With a wry sense of humour, she nods to canonical tableaux, like Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe, exploring the shared projected desires built around food and the female body. Meticulously hand painted casts of food serve as the base for the artist’s sculptural practice where strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. Advertising, fashion, taboo, multi-national brands—Wise looks to the consumptive habits built around these structures with parody and derision, underlying how the body is framed and becomes excessive in its manipulation of these sites.

Selected artworks

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Gluten Freedom, 2017

    Chloe Wise Gluten Freedom, 2017

    Oil on canvas
    182,9 x 152,4 cm
    72 x 60 inches

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Still life with peach, president, 2017

    Chloe Wise Still life with peach, president, 2017

    Oil on canvas
    182,9 x 152,4 cm
    72 x 60 inches

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Promises are like pie crusts, 2020

    Chloe Wise Promises are like pie crusts, 2020

    Oil on linen
    182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm
    72 x 60 x 1 1/2 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      We fought back against fighting, 2021

    Chloe Wise We fought back against fighting, 2021

    Oil on linen

    121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm
    48 x 36 x 1 1/2 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Crying is cardio, 2017

    Chloe Wise Crying is cardio, 2017

    25 x 31 x 31 cm
    9 7/8 x 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Caesar Salad Chandelier, 2021

    Chloe Wise Caesar Salad Chandelier, 2021

    Oil paint, pepper, urethane, plexi, light fixtures
    94 x 109.2 x 109.2 cm (not including chain of variable length)
    37 x 43 x 43 in (not including chain of variable length)
    3/4 x 25 x 27 in (floor element 1 of 2)
    3 1/2 x 11 x 9 in (floor element 2 of 2)

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Mound of butter, 2021

    Chloe Wise Mound of butter, 2021

    Glass block, wax, oil paint on urethane, polycrylic finish
    121.9 x 47 x 47 cm
    48 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Winsome Neighborhood Nuisance, 2021

    Chloe Wise Winsome Neighborhood Nuisance, 2021

    Oil on linen

    121.9 x 91.4 cm
    48 x 36 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      To Be Sunkissed Goodnight, 2021

    Chloe Wise To Be Sunkissed Goodnight, 2021

    Oil on linen

    152.4 x 182.9 cm
    60 x 72 in

Videos

  • In conversation: Chloe Wise and Alice Pfeiffer

Selected press

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