Chloe Wise

{{short description|Canadian artist based in New York City (born 1990)}}

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| birth_date = 1990

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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| known_for = Bread Bags

| notable_works = Bagel No. 5

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Chloe Wise (born 1990) is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Wise works in sculpture, drawing, video art, and oil painting. 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.{{Cite web|title=For Chloe Wise, Isolation Is Inspiration - Chloe Wise Artist Interview|url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/audemars-piguet/chloe-wise-interview-2019|access-date=2022-01-06|website=L'Officiel USA|language=en-US}}

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.{{cite web | url = https://nypost.com/2014/10/17/the-bagel-bag-is-now-a-thing-selfies-go-360-and-more/| title =The 'bagel bag' is now a thing, selfies go 360 and more | work =New York Post | author =Lindsay Putnam | date = 17 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}{{cite web | url =http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/chanel-bagel-bag-debuts-article-1.1975735| title = Carb couture: This 'Chanel' bagel bag is good enough to eat| work =New York Daily News | author =Jeanette Settembre | date =15 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }} The sculpture was believed to be a real purse designed by Chanel,{{cite web | url =http://racked.com/archives/2014/10/14/chanel-bagel-purse-crucial-update.php | title =How Can We Buy This Chanel Bagel Clutch Right Now? | work =Racked r| date = 14 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}{{cite web | url =http://www.luckymag.com/accessories/2014/10/chanel-bagel-purse-photos | title =A Chanel Bagel Purse Now Exists | work =Lucky Magazine | author =Maura Brannigan | date =October 2014 | accessdate =7 December 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141017024242/http://www.luckymag.com/accessories/2014/10/chanel-bagel-purse-photos | archive-date =17 October 2014 | url-status =dead }}{{cite web | url =http://www.bustle.com/articles/44220-chanel-debuts-bagel-bag-much-to-the-shock-of-its-gluten-free-clientele | title =Chanel Debuts Bagel Bag, Much To The Shock Of Its Gluten-Free Clientele | work = Bustle| author =Tyler Atwood | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }} until it was revealed that the "bag" was part of a collection created by Wise.{{cite web | url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/5-bags-are-making-us-740765| title = These 5 Bags Are Making Us Hungry| work = Hollywood Reporter| author =Stephanie Chan | date =15 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}{{cite web | url =http://bullettmedia.com/article/artist-chloe-wise-on-her-chanel-bagel-purse-and-pranking-the-internet/| title =Artist Chloe Wise on Her Chanel Bagel Purse and Pranking the Internet | work =Bullett | author =Rachel Lapidos | date =16 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}

Early life and education

Wise was born in Montreal, Quebec.

Wise graduated from Concordia University in 2013 with a degree in Fine Arts and Art History.{{cite web |url=http://dismagazine.com/discrit89plus/users/profile/2575 |title=Chloe Wise |work=DIScrit 89plus |accessdate=7 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104023937/http://dismagazine.com/discrit89plus/users/profile/2575 |archive-date=2015-01-04 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.oystermag.com/interview-artist-chloe-wise-on-nipples-drake-and-clip-art |title=Artist Chloe Wise On Nipples, Drake and Clip Art |work=Oyster Magazine |date=17 June 2014 |accessdate=7 December 2014}}

Work

In 2013, Wise began a collection of sculptures featuring different kinds of bread adorned with designer labels modeled after various It bags. 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. 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. 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.{{cite web | url =http://blogs.forward.com/the-jew-and-the-carrot/207436/chanel-with-a-schmear/?| title ='Chanel' With a Schmear | work =The Jewish Daily Forward | author =Michael Kaminer | date =17 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.refinery29.com/2014/10/76280/chloe-wise-chanel-bagel-bag#slide | title =Why You Won't See The Chanel Bagel Bag On The Runway | work =Refinery29 | author =Gina Marinelli | date =15 October 2014 | accessdate = 7 December 2014 }}

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.{{Cite web|title=Chloe Wise Illustrates Jacquemus' Spring 2019 Campaign - Chloe Wise Artist Painting|url=https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/chloe-wise-illustrates-jacquemus-spring-2019-campaign|access-date=2022-01-06|website=L'Officiel USA|language=en-US}}

Wise's first institutional exhibition was in 2019 at Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, titled And Everything Was True.{{Cite web|title=CHLOE WISE "AND EVERYTHING WAS TRUE" — I DO ART|url=https://www.idoart.dk/kalender/chloe-wise-and-everything-was-true|access-date=2022-01-06|website=IDOART.DK|language=da-DK}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Chloe Wise on hyperreality, painting during the pandemic, and the weirdness of smiles|url=https://www.artforum.com/interviews/chloe-wise-on-hyperreality-painting-during-the-pandemic-and-the-weirdness-of-smiles-85310|access-date=2022-01-06|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-15|title=Chloe Wise Continues Her Meteoric Rise with a Striking New Show at Almine Rech Gallery|url=https://galeriemagazine.com/chloe-wise-continues-meteoric-rise-striking-new-show-almine-rech/|access-date=2022-01-06|website=Galerie|language=en-US}} Wise also had work at Fantasy America at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Themes

Wise often critiques consumer culture, commercialization, ideas of wellness, and the self-construction of identity with a balance of comedy and sincere optimism.{{Cite web|title=Chloe Wise|url=https://frieze.com/article/chloe-wise|access-date=2019-03-23|website=frieze.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Chloe Wise {{!}} Jewish Women's Archive|url=https://jwa.org/people/wise-chloe|access-date=2019-03-23|website=jwa.org}}{{Cite web|last=Tora|first=Baker|date=21 March 2019|title=Amusing portraits by Chloe Wise that poke fun at contemporary culture and the concept of 'self'|url=https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/chloe-wise/|access-date=23 March 2019|website=Creative Boom}} 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. Through this manner, Wise "teases out conventions, but by implicating herself in the joke."

Solo exhibitions

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