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Almine Rech

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.

Recent solo exhibitions include: 'Chloe Wise: Natural Causes at The Ranch', Montauk, New York (2023); 'Told A Vision' presented at Art Basel Parcours, Basel, Switzerland (2023); 'In Loveliness of Perfect Deeds' at Blouin Division, Montréal, Canada (2022); 'Spite Unseen', Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); 'Thank You For The Nice Fire', Almine Rech, New York, US (2021); 'Second Nature', Almine Rech, Online (2020); 'And Everything Was True', Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark (2019); 'Not That We Don't', Almine Rech, London, UK (2019); 'Spitting Image', The Journal Gallery, New York, US (2019); 'Coast unclear seeks rained parade', Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland (2018); and 'Of false beaches and butter money', Almine Rech, Paris, France (2017).

Notable group exhibitions have been featured at institutions including: Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany (2024); Passerelle centre d'art contemporain, Brest, France (2022); LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, US (2022); The Andy Warhol Museum, PA, US (2021).

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Selected artworks

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Over and over the river and out, 2023

    Chloe Wise Over and over the river and out, 2023

    Oil on linen
    182.9 x 152.4 cm
    72 x 60 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      You loved an image, 2022

    Chloe Wise You loved an image, 2022

    Oil on linen
    177.8 x 134.6 cm
    70 x 53 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Now or never that you mention it, 2022

    Chloe Wise Now or never that you mention it, 2022

    Oil on linen
    182.9 x 152.4 cm
    72 x 60 in

  • Chloe Wise,                                      Teamwork Enables the Dream Labor, 2022

    Chloe Wise Teamwork Enables the Dream Labor, 2022

    Oil on linen
    51.1 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm
    20 1/8 x 16 x 1 1/2 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

  • 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,                                      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,                                      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,                                      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,                                      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,                                      Gluten Freedom, 2017

    Chloe Wise Gluten Freedom, 2017

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

  • 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,                                      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

Videos

  • In conversation: Chloe Wise and Alice Pfeiffer

Selected press