Chloe Wise (born 1990) is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Wise works in sculpture, drawing, video art, and oil painting.[1] Wise is known for her stylized and humorous approach to both still life and figurative painting that incorporate intimate depictions of food trends, agriculture, consumer culture, friends, and muses.[2]
Chloe Wise | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1990 |
| Education | Concordia University |
| Known for | Bread Bags |
| Notable work | Bagel No. 5 |
| Website | chloewise |
In 2014, actor Bobbi Menuez attended a Chanel launch event wearing Wise's sculpture, "Bagel No. 5," a realistic sculpture of a bagel with cream cheese adorned with a Chanel purse chain and charm.[3][4] The sculpture was believed to be a real purse designed by Chanel,[5][6][7] until it was revealed that the "bag" was part of a collection created by Wise.[8][9]
Early life and education
editWise was born in Montreal, Quebec.
Wise graduated from Concordia University in 2013 with a degree in Fine Arts and Art History.[1][10]
Work
editIn 2013, Wise began a collection of sculptures featuring different kinds of bread adorned with designer labels modeled after various It bags.[9] The sculptures were made out of urethane and oil paint and finished with a designer label or charm along with straps to make it look like a functional bag or purse.[4] The collection began with a play on the Louis Vuitton "baguettes," in which Wise created a bread mold of a baguette out of urethane and then painted it with oil paints to resemble a real loaf of bread. She then drilled into the sculpture to add straps and a Louis Vuitton charm.[9] The collection also includes a Prada backpack made of a sculpted, braided challah loaf titled Ain't No Challah Back Girl, and another piece with a sculpted bagel with cream cheese completed with a Chanel chain and charm called Bagel No. 5.[11][12]
Wise's first gallery show with Almine Rech, Of false beaches and butter money, in Paris, France in 2017.
Two more exhibitions with Almine Rech took place in 2019, Lineup in New York and Not That We Don’t in London.
In 2019, designer Simon Porte Jacquemus worked with Wise to illustrate the designer's Spring 2019 campaign.[13]
Wise's first institutional exhibition was in 2019 at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, titled And Everything Was True.[14]
For the 2021 exhibition, Thank You For The Nice Fire, at Almine Rech Gallery, a reference to a scene in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.[15] Wise continued to depict up close paintings friends-as-muses, like model and photographer Richie Shazam, as well as trompe-l'oeil chandeliers and sconces that looked like romaine lettuce covered in caesar dressing.[16] Wise also had work at Fantasy America at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Themes
editWise often critiques consumer culture, commercialization, ideas of wellness, and the self-construction of identity with a balance of comedy and sincere optimism.[17][18][19] Wise employs comedic and satirical strategies while using references to art history, such as the pronkstillevens that inspired sculptures in her exhibition Of false beaches and butter money.[17][19] Through this manner, Wise "teases out conventions, but by implicating herself in the joke."
Solo exhibitions
edit- Thank You For The Nice Fire, Almine Rech, New York, NY, 2021
- Second Nature, Almine Rech, online, New York, NY, 2020
- And Everything Was True, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark, 2019
- Not That We Don't, Almine Rech, London, England, 2019
- Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY, 2019
- Coast unclear seeks rained parade, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018
- Of false beaches and butter money, Almine Rech, Paris, France, 2017
- Cats not fighting is a horrible sound as well, Galerie Division, Montreal, Canada, 2016
- Full-Size Body, Erotic Literature, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2015
- That's Something Else, My Sweet, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015
- pissing, shmoozing and looking away, Galerie Division, Montreal, and Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2015
Publications
edit- Chloe Wise: Second Nature, 2021, Almine Rech Editions
- Chloe Wise, 2016, Division Gallery (Canada) and Galerie Sebastien Bertrand (Switzerland)
Collections
edit- The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
- The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
References
edit- ^ a b "Chloe Wise". DIScrit 89plus. Archived from the original on 2015-01-04. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "For Chloe Wise, Isolation Is Inspiration - Chloe Wise Artist Interview". L'Officiel USA. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ Lindsay Putnam (17 October 2014). "The 'bagel bag' is now a thing, selfies go 360 and more". New York Post. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ a b Jeanette Settembre (15 October 2014). "Carb couture: This 'Chanel' bagel bag is good enough to eat". New York Daily News. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "How Can We Buy This Chanel Bagel Clutch Right Now?". Racked r. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Maura Brannigan (October 2014). "A Chanel Bagel Purse Now Exists". Lucky Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Tyler Atwood. "Chanel Debuts Bagel Bag, Much To The Shock Of Its Gluten-Free Clientele". Bustle. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Stephanie Chan (15 October 2014). "These 5 Bags Are Making Us Hungry". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ a b c Rachel Lapidos (16 October 2014). "Artist Chloe Wise on Her Chanel Bagel Purse and Pranking the Internet". Bullett. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "Artist Chloe Wise On Nipples, Drake and Clip Art". Oyster Magazine. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Michael Kaminer (17 October 2014). "'Chanel' With a Schmear". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Gina Marinelli (15 October 2014). "Why You Won't See The Chanel Bagel Bag On The Runway". Refinery29. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "Chloe Wise Illustrates Jacquemus' Spring 2019 Campaign - Chloe Wise Artist Painting". L'Officiel USA. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "CHLOE WISE "AND EVERYTHING WAS TRUE" — I DO ART". IDOART.DK (in Danish). Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Chloe Wise on hyperreality, painting during the pandemic, and the weirdness of smiles". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Chloe Wise Continues Her Meteoric Rise with a Striking New Show at Almine Rech Gallery". Galerie. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ a b "Chloe Wise". frieze.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Chloe Wise | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ a b Tora, Baker (21 March 2019). "Amusing portraits by Chloe Wise that poke fun at contemporary culture and the concept of 'self'". Creative Boom. Retrieved 23 March 2019.