You Can't Bring Ants to a Picnic

Chloe Wise

You Can't Bring Ants to a Picnic, 201545 x 35cmSign in to view price
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The composition features a striking portrait of a woman set against a pale blue background. The subject's face is rendered in warm, vibrant tones, with a strong jawline, piercing gaze, and boldly applied lipstick that draws the viewer's attention. The woman's bare shoulders and the Starbucks logo on the cup she holds suggest a commentary on modern consumerism and the female form. The painting's bold, expressive style and use of symbolic elements evoke a sense of social commentary, hinting at the artist's intention to explore themes of identity, objectification, and the commercialization of the human body. ...

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Chloe Wise
Artist
Chloe Wise
B.1990, Canadian

Imbued in Chloe Wise’s art practice is a distinct and delightful derision and self-deprecating parody. Spanning diverse media such as painting, sculpture, video and installation, her work explores the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self. The tools of self-representation, publicity, fashion, commercial brands and all that combine to create one’s identity become subject to a potential teasing. They thus underline just how much humour and parody can generate an insightful and sharp critique of the world, and specifically the authority of the media in the digital paradigm. She paints her close friends, exploring themes of representation, identity and subject-object relationships. In doing so, Wise adds an element that supports her particular way of connecting her work to her private life. She thus evokes the porosity of the borders between the workplace and domesticity but also approaches the representation of friendship and privacy and the limitations imposed on this narrative by portraiture. We find the de-facto political aspect of the portraitist’s act, her sharing of her reality as a New York female artist who chooses her subjects – brought together first due to belonging to the same generation and cultural community and then based on a more intimate bond: their friendship with Chloe Wise and her act of painting. Wise invites us to experience an abundance of rich food through the meticulously hand-painted casts that serve as the base for her sculptural practice. Reflecting a consumerist society in which the “forbidden fruit,” like so many guilty pleasures, is fetishized yet revered, these sculptures stand as an embodiment of temptation. Contrary to what they represent – perishable food, destined to decomposition – these strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. ...

Chloe Wise: Artworks
A Fantastic Ignorance
Chloe Wise
A Fantastic Ignorance, 2016
117 x 46 x 45cm
You Can't Bring Ants to a Picnic
Chloe Wise
You Can't Bring Ants to a Picnic, 2015
45 x 35cm
Pluto with His Mother
Chloe Wise
Pluto with His Mother, 2018
50 x 61cm
How Not to Cry Over Unspilled Milk (Ana)
Chloe Wise
How Not to Cry Over Unspilled Milk (Ana), 2018
122 x 152.5cm
Lament, Sing Wildly, Cast a Spell (Richie)
Chloe Wise
Lament, Sing Wildly, Cast a Spell (Richie), 2018
152 x 183cm
Under Where
Chloe Wise
Under Where, 2019
101.6 x 76.2cm
Heart of glass of gold breaking
Chloe Wise
Heart of glass of gold breaking, 2022
182.8 x 152.4cm
I Have a Heart of Gold, It's Very Expensive
Chloe Wise
I Have a Heart of Gold, It's Very Expensive, 2016
152 x 107cm
Be able not to be able
Chloe Wise
Be able not to be able, 2022
121.9 x 91.4cm
Hand Holding Brussels Sprout
Chloe Wise
Hand Holding Brussels Sprout, 2022
152.4 x 121.9cm
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