Bread handbags and topless portraits: the NSFW work of Chloe Wise

Date
28 October 2016

Visual artist and sculptor Chloe Wise may be Canadian but these days she’s based out of her studio in Brooklyn artist bolthole Bushwick. From there, she produces a steady stream of post-modern, internet-friendly oil paintings (all tits and vegetables) and sculptures (grotesque and similarly food-based) for her growing army of Instagram fans, who numbered 43.6k at the time of writing.

So far, she’s made a satirical range of “irregular” (“you’re not ‘regular’, why should your tampon be?”) tampons filled with marble, superfoods and er, human hair, a set of intentionally weird low-budget videos and a set of tongue-in-cheek oil paintings of partially naked women accompanied by vegetables, fruit, tinned fish, almond milk and Haribo bears.

Her paintings are counterparted by her fascinatingly gross sculptures of food. Made with painted urethane, they’re a Frankenstein version of the Japanese-made fake food plates which fill the windows of Asian restaurants. Elsewhere, there’s the sculptures which initially made her famous – unusable handbags made out of bread products: pancakes dripping with maple syrup hung with a gold chain, a leather-strapped challah rucksack topped off with a Prada logo, a cinnamon and raisin swirl accessorised with a mini croissant keyring.

Three solo shows and an Art Basel screening later, Chloe’s book (titled Chloe Wise and showing her work over the last two years) launches this week.

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Chloe Wise: Life’s Rough, But Not Rough Enough

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Chloe Wise: I Have A Heart of Gold, and It’s Very Expensive

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Chloe Wise: A Treachery

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Chloe Wise: Earl of Sandwich

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Chloe Wise: Pancakes No. 5

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Chloe Wise: American Classic

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Chloe Wise: PBJLV

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Chloe Wise:
A Magnificent Forgetting

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Bryony Stone

Bryony joined It's Nice That as Deputy Editor in August 2016, following roles at Mother, Secret Cinema, LAW, Rollacoaster and Wonderland. She later became Acting Editor at It's Nice That, before leaving in late 2018.

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