![]() ![]() “Like, how often do people have to tell you their diets?” she said, standing in her Bushwick studio one day last spring. ![]() She loves, in particular, First World food trends. Photo: Paul Litherland/Courtesy of Galerie Divisionįood is a recurring motif in Wise’s work. And you Google her and it’s all, like, vanity shots.” But the real litmus test is if you Google an artist and it’s all photos at parties. ![]() “Everyone is doing these figurative works that look really good on Instagram. “Those bags were so annoying,” one critic at an arts publication moans to me over the phone. Wise’s youth, chosen subjects, and affinity for self-promotion have given rise to predictable grumblings from those who see her colorful figurative work as slight or trendy and sneer at her social presence. In addition to being a consistent presence socially, Wise has a robust presence on Instagram, where she entertains more than 60,000 followers with photos and videos of her doing things that are glamorous or gross or funny or all three, like smushing a cream-cheese-laden rainbow bagel while wearing silky magician gloves. In the three short years she has been in New York, Wise has become a kind of “It” girl, part of a group of mostly female artists who are taking the concept of downtown scenester to a larger audience, mainly through social media. “And there’s a level where people will be like, ‘Oh, that’s Chloe’s world, the scene she’s part of.’ And there’s a level where it’s like, ‘That’s fucked up.’ ” “There’s a level where people will see it and be like, ‘Oh, that’s funny,’ ” says Eric Wareheim, of the comedy duo Tim and Eric, who is developing a video series with Wise. 5 her old-master-style paintings, which feature her subjects lounging with food items like Swiss chard and her videos, in which Wise and her friends often recite things she’s overheard, or her friends have said, or “That I can’t believe I’ve said.” Such as: “I’ve had the avocado toast here 1,000 times,” or “A friend OD’d on Adderall at my birthday party, and it was iconic.” Or, “I realized I eat quinoa all the time, and I don’t know what it is.” She keeps a running list of it all on her iPhone. Like her viral “Bread Bag” series, in which she affixed luxury logos to urethane carbohydrates and gave them names like Pancakes No. Wise makes paintings, sculptures, and videos that tread the line between having affection for and trolling aspirational millennial culture. She sounded both sarcastic and genuine, which is pretty much the tone of her work. Two more artist-models eventually materialized, their eyeliner extra-smudgy in the heat. ![]() There was trans model-activist Hari Nef, in glittery sunglasses and a red hat India Salvor Menuez, the flame-haired actress who played Amy Adams’s daughter in Nocturnal Animals and Carly Mark, known for her multimedia work with Haribo Gummi Bears. A photographer circled the group, which consisted of people like Wise: young, of-the-moment artist-slash-somethings. As people filtered toward the exit, so many came by to say hello that the area around the tree was soon buzzing with the energy of a cocktail party. The fans had been distributed by arty-cool label Eckhaus Latta to guests at its spring 2017 show, and Wise, who considers the designers and many of the models friends, had been in the second row snapping pictures as they walked down the runway. It was a blazing-hot Saturday in September, and Wise, 26, was standing next to an anemic tree in Seward Park on the Lower East Side, wearing a T-shirt and palazzo pants and dramatically waving a delicate wooden fan against her invisibly sweating skin. “I want to, like, dip myself into a pool of water,” she said, lifting her glossy dark hair off her neck. Lit-er-al-ly, she would say, in that accent that has somehow transcended its Southern California roots to become the voice of an entire socioeconomic class. ![]()
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