Chloe Wise

Chloe Wise's studio practice combines traditional painting techniques with contemporary materials and conceptual strategies, reflecting her multidisciplinary approach to art-making. Working primarily from her studio in New York's Lower East Side, Wise has developed a methodology that moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, and video production, with each medium informing and extending the others.

For her signature oil paintings, Wise employs a technically rigorous process that begins with extensive photographic sessions where she directs friends, fellow artists, and occasionally herself in carefully composed scenes that reference both art history and advertising imagery. These photoshoots function as collaborative performances that generate both the source material for paintings and documentation that sometimes appears in her video works. Her painting technique itself draws from Old Master traditions, particularly Dutch still life painting, with multiple layers of glazing to achieve luminous skin tones and realistic textures of food and commercial products. This time-intensive process creates a productive tension with her contemporary subject matter and conceptual frameworks.

Chloe Wise's artistic legacy, while still forming as her career continues to evolve, already encompasses several significant contributions to contemporary art discourse around consumption, identity, and desire. As an artist who emerged in the early 2010s during the acceleration of social media and its impact on identity formation, Wise's work offers particularly incisive commentary on how we construct ourselves through what we consume, both materially and visually.