Bio

b. 1991, Russia, OH

In 2014, Chloe received her BFA from the University of Dayton, taking an immediate interest in figurative drawing and painting. Her senior year, Chloe was awarded an Excellence in Visual Arts Award by the Association of Independent Colleges & Universities of Ohio. She was also selected as a Dorothy & Bill Yeck College Artist Fellow through the Dayton Art Institute.

After graduating with her BFA, Chloe moved to various Midwestern cities, enjoying residencies and teaching opportunities. She’s been a resident artist at Prairie Center of the arts in Illinois, and Access Arts in Missouri. In 2018, Chloe relocated to Wilmington, Delaware where she currently works fulltime from her studio.

Chloe’s works have been included in exhibitions, galleries, and museums across the US, including The Dayton Art Institute, The Peoria Riverfront Museum, Anne Irwin Fine Art, The Delaware Contemporary, and most recently Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.

Statement

“Painting is my endless pursuit of understanding. Drawing on dual roles as an artist and mother, I explore the oft-conflicting tensions that exist in the work of painting and of caretaking. Through painting plants and people, I explore the dual needs for solitude and connection. For self-sacrifice and self-care. Growth as excitement for newness and growth as grief for what is lost.  

Reflecting those dissonances, my paintings are a fragmented, disrupted environment. I layer moments of realism, impressionism, and abstraction onto the surface. Each new layer proceeds from and responds to what came before, and each fragment serves the whole while remaining discrete, unique. Divergent elements converge into something singular, and the pieces that would shake and fall from each other are bound together with threads of color.”