Chloë Walker is a Brooklyn based artist, primarily working in sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Her work straddles the sometimes stringent, sometimes murky, line between self-objectification and self-empowerment – and in examining these two seemingly opposing concepts, she questions if they really are separate states of being, or if one can bleed into the other.
From a young age, Walker has been infatuated with a stereotypically feminine and highly sexualized aesthetic. And yet, like so many, she grapples with the knowledge that in our current world the fictionalized erotic female body is often posited as real, trapping women in an inescapable whirlpool of unattainable qualities. Her art practice is a brash and nakedly honest attempt to untangle the threads of nature vs. nurture woven into her own sense of self, as her lascivious figurative work depicts a version of the feminine form which is both fantastical and grounded in reality. Using crude imagery, a brightly saturated color palette, and self-deprecating humor, Walker highlights the duality of the grotesque and sensual, the damned and the idealized: the inextricable link between truth and fantasy. Depending on the viewer’s perspective, Walker’s work may appear jarring and oppressive, or tantalizingly titillating. And as both the artist and subject of her work, Walker becomes the omnipresent creator of her own empowerment and her own destruction.
Currently available for commission.